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Darling, I was at my beach house this weekend, with a gang of my best chums. I put on my purple bikini and we all floated in the sea for hours, talking and laughing and telling each other our deepest...

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I just couldn’t wait!

It’s Monday, Sisters, and I know, I know, I am a day early, but I just could not wait to inform you all of what is going down starting TOMORROW! I was overwhelmed and thrilled by the responses we...

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When life throws you a curveball…

Life transitions… Such a polite way to describe what are really the dark nights of the soul, those dark, difficult turning points in life. Just when you think you have it all figured out… WHAM! Life...

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How do you navigate the body “Woman”?

Ohmygoddess! LOOK at your body. I mean, LOOK at it! Really. Look at it. What do you see? Do you see beauty? Flaws? Flab? I was having dinner with a friend in the Hamptons on Saturday night, and there...

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Do you want to be pleasured?

Why do we form relationships with people? For one reason only:  We want more pleasure. No kidding. We want to have support, and to be supportive. We want to be listened to, and to listen deeply. We...

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What if your greatest fear was your greatest talent?

Darling, I am so deeply impatient with mediocrity. Irritated off the wall with settling, with compromise, with shrinking. I cannot even stand on a line without questioning it or inventing an...

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Why Boot Camp is absolutely NOT for you.

1.  You will be bored, as you are already deeply surrendered to your relationship with your desires. You know what you want, you feel confident and comfortable expressing your every desire, and you’re...

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Power is sensuality

Darling, Sensuality is power. Not domination.  Not force. It is something different.  It is both more practical and more numinous. Yesterday, I was traveling seven hours with my daughter, to have a...

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Are you too old and fat?

Darling, I spent a few intense hours last Sunday with my daughter, trying on clothes, making sure she had the perfect thing to wear on her first day of school.  The big question, as she tried on each...

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The antidote to unhappiness

Darling, So you’re not exactly happy with your job, but you don’t have a strong pull on what’s next. You suffer from lack of direction and lack of clear focus like a lingering head cold. You’ve been...

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Unleashed: Miami 2013

Darling, As many of you know, I spent the summer at the beach, working on my new book. It started with a conversation with my agent, where I was distilling and describing the bottom line of the work...

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Conducting this orchestra of life

Darling, I have just gotten the single mother break of the century. My daughter has a whole weekend sleepover with a camp friend, in the country.  She gets fresh fall air, changing leaves, and giggling...

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Is your light ON or OFF?

Darling, Is your light on or off? Right now. Take a quick test: Do you feel flush with enthusiasm? Beautiful? Strong? Confident? Good.  Then your light is on. Light is everything. No light, no life....

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Are you pissed you don’t have what you want?

Darling, When you have a deep desire, what do you do? Are you thrilled to be filled with yearning? Do you enjoy that delicious feeling of wanting? Or do you focus, instead, on the pain of not having...

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Masculine overdrive? Moi?

Darling, I have to be honest. Motherhood absolutely overwhelmed me. From the first moment I pushed my baby out, I was absolutely overwhelmed with love, with worry, with fear, with responsibility. I...

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I was immobilized and falling apart

Darling, Look around. Everything is dying here in the Northeast. The grass is brown. The leaves are throwing one last party, exploding with color, before they fall, die, and dry up. Every year: death....

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Embrace your darkness

Darling, Has anyone ever told you to just get out there and FEEL? FEEL loudly? WEEP uncontrollably? RAGE like an angry lioness? HOWL like a bitch in heat? Cry MORE? SCREAM your head off? What women...

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The most unexpected gift

Darling, I’m writing to you from Miami, as I’m about to board a plane back to NYC. What’s spinning through my head? “Through the Eyes of Love” by Melissa Manchester. “I Had the Time of My Life” from...

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What do negative thoughts feel like?

Darling, I am still drenched, saturated, steeped in the beauty, power, and cell-changing energy that we created in Miami. No kidding, Sisters. It was Nuclear. Fission. That’s what we were doing all...

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Thanksgiving Gratitude

Darling, Gratitude is Water. A lazy river, a lake, a pool, inside, that never empties. Any moment I remember, she rises, ready for me to dip my cup. Dipping my cup replenishes hers. Friday is my day at...

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