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Dream Road

Guest Author, February 10, 2011

Dream Road

Tara Sophia Mohr has done it again. Be sure to visit her Wise Living blog, "Because more is possible for your life." Thanks, Tara!

I remember well the moments when I first began to turn away from my own B+ life. I began to allow room for the truth — the truth that I wasn’t fulfilled by the status quo. That the things I really loved I had long neglected.

I began, slowly, scary as it was, to articulate what I wanted my life to look like. Who I wanted to be. What I wanted to be doing.

Have I reached that perfect end state picture? No. I’m not sure it will ever happen.

But the point is, I’m on the road.

Sexual Energy As Aliveness

Matthew Sloane, November 9, 2010

It's eighth grade. A school dance. I'm that kid in the corner. The one who watches the guys and the girls getting closer even though they don't know what they're doing.

And I envy them from afar. I envy their willingness to push their bodies together, to feel the heat, the tension, the mystery of sexuality between them.

It wasn't until college that I kissed a girl. It wasn't until sophomore year that I lost my virginity. And now, while I'm enjoying an amazing relationship with a sexy lady who's also my best friend, I find that I still have tension when it comes to body contact on the dance floor. Not so much with my girlfriend, but with other women, yes.

Loving Anger

Matthew Sloane, October 18, 2010

I took part in a workshop this past weekend: about 18 women and 12 men played in a very interactive, energetic, inquiry as to the nature of sexuality and how it lives or does not live in each of us.

In one moment, our brilliant facilitator noticed that there was a "men vs. women" dynamic showing up in the conversation, so she invited us to make it more real and play it out. All the men stood on one side of the room and all the women on the other. "Let out all the judgments you have about the other sex — say it to the people across from you now!"

Every Hero Begins as Fool

Guest Author, April 1, 2010

Dearest Pinkies, please welcome back Tama J. Kieves, author of This Time I Dance: Creating the Work You Love. Tama's given us generous permission to re-post the wise words in her monthly newsletter, "Trusting the Journey Times." This one is altogether too timely. Thanks again, Tama - we love you (no foolin')!

Taking a Leap Off the Corporate Cliff

Ryan Rigoli, March 11, 2010

The Matrix

It was about three years ago and I was exhausted. I had recently come back from a trip to Australia. My intention was to spend time with a good friend and rejuvenate. The spending time with a good friend part was great. The rejuvenation part didn’t last long.