I would not be living the life I am now without presence, and I would not have embraced presence as a daily practice without my grief journey. There was a time when I couldn’t see how meeting my grief could help me to find meaning again in my life, let alone experience joy. [...]
There is an aching in my awareness, a need to be fully me in each moment. without needing anything to be different, a surrender to the essence of me, the wellspring of Nanciness that is that has been yearning to spring forth into life, to be breathed into being by the very desire of [...]
You may be wondering if it is possible to find meaning, purpose, or even joy again in light of your loss. I thought the same thing. I didn’t think it was possible to live that life I was meant to live. As I began to process my grief with Samyama I began to notice [...]
Travel back with me to November 3, 2000. It was a Friday that started out like any other. I worked as a project manager for a contracting company, and my office was in a construction trailer on the campus of NIH in Bethesda Maryland where the project was located. Mid-morning the campus police knocked [...]
As an adult, play has always been elusive. There have been many New Year’s Days when I have set an intention to play more. When I talked about one of the reasons I was drawn to work with D after we moved to Maryland, I noticed that I shared that we did many fun [...]
As I began to write this blog, I was going to say that presence had many twists and turns. What is more true is that my journey with presence and was the thing that was circuitous. Often, I would rely on my head to explain presence to me. I was [...]
After I became certified as a Samyama Practitioner, it took several more years and a few twists and turns before I was ready to say yes to walking with others on their grief journeys. I knew my corporate job was no longer serving me and I was being called to do work that was [...]
I’ve talked a lot about presence in my work, in my videos, and in my writings. If you are happening upon my work for the first time, you may have questions about exactly what presence is, and how it impacts my life. I first discovered presence named as presence in 1994. I had recently [...]
I mentioned in an earlier writing that I’ve heard the whispering of my longings since I was a little girl. I didn’t grow up in a space that encouraged me to listen to my own inner guidance. I don’t even know if that was a part of the greater consciousness back then. I do [...]
Nothing can knock the wind out of our sails like the approach of a holiday or a milestone day. Even after over 21 years my daughter’s birthday can bring tears. Mother’s Day is bittersweet. The year-end holidays can bring sadness. All of these occasions also bring immense joy and celebration too. I didn’t come to [...]
