May 11, 2017
Last June I received an email from Cassidy Doucette, a Nurse Educator at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and in her final year of DNP school at the University of Utah. This final year of schooling involved a “scholarly project.” It required her to investigate and...
Mar 3, 2017
I am still in the unfolding process with my mind/body/spirit of these last couple months. Oh, how I have missed writing and sharing with you. I waited because I needed more information and time to embrace my personal life-changing “chi moment” [which of...
Dec 8, 2016
Recently after our T’ai Chi class, I was reminded of the 3C words that can cause cancer to our soul. When I use these words, or find myself caught up inside them — I feel less than and separate. The obvious question then is, Why would do any of us choose to repeat...
Nov 10, 2016
I realized Wednesday after my morning ritual that I was probably one of the few people in the world, who did not know who was elected President of the United States. I had made it a point on election day, to stay away from the media, [of course, I voted early] instead...
Oct 19, 2016
Autumn is my favorite time of the year — the cooler weather, the changing of the leaves, and we begin to move from the external, expansive nature of summer to the internal, contractive nature of autumn. Fall is the time to practice getting out of the way and letting...
Sep 1, 2016
I have been taking a lot of deep breaths lately and resetting. My husband was terminated from his job August 24, along with four other colleagues — which also happens to be my Mom’s birthday, and we celebrated with her at dinner that night. [a great example of...
Jul 6, 2016
July 6 was His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s 81st birthday. Last month, I had the honor of listening to him speak for the second time at the Huntsman Center on the University of Utah campus. [He was here back in 2002] His topic this year: “Compassion and Universal...
May 19, 2016
I have to share something about me you may or may not know. It is … that I LOVE making acronyms out of words that mean something to me. Above my wrist, I have a tattoo that has the word, REAL on it, made out of different symbols. The word real means to me: Realizing...
Apr 13, 2016
Recently in my T’ai Chi classes with Master Sifu Gardner, he has been sharing with us this concept of becoming The Face of Acceptance. How we need to be more like a polished mirror. A mirror only reflects what is presented in front of it, without judgment — the mirror...
Feb 23, 2016
Being is the yin-side within us, the female expression, our intuition. Doing is the yang-side, the action oriented part of ourselves, the masculine expression. As we know, each person has both energies. [Visualize the yin-yang symbol.] Our challenge is to... 