Aging is optional. (Interview with Dr. Christiane Northrup!)
Did you know that you can actually become biologically younger this year than you were last year? Getting older is inevitable, but aging is optional, says Dr. Christiane Northrup in her newest book –...
View ArticleThe “I give up” moment.
A really really really really good friend of mine, Ayo, got engaged last month. For the very first time. At age 68. This was not a likely thing to have ever happened in this world. She came from a...
View ArticleThis only happens once a year.
Mastery 2015 kicks off in a few weeks, and we’ve had phenomenal questions flowing in. Today, I’ve invited a posse of my graduates to answer them, because the best way to understand this work is through...
View Article6 Mistakes That Keep You in Indecision
It is so easy to make the same choice over and over and over again. Making a bold decision, and stepping into something new is almost impossibly difficult. Usually we have to be chased by something...
View ArticleThe Book of Ruth
“whither thou goest, i will go. whither thou lodgest, i will lodge. thy people shall be my people, and thy god my god.” - the book of ruth I want to talk about Sisterhood. And Callings. As in – the...
View ArticleNotes from my dressing room
I am writing to you from my dressing room. It’s 5:12pm on Sunday afternoon, and we have just wrapped the first weekend of Mastery 2015. Moments ago, I left a stage filled with dancing, hugging women,...
View ArticleIn Praise of the Pig-Headed Girl
I have always been a pig-headed girl. Always. Sometimes overtly, sometimes subversively. I secretly thought my way was always the best way. I had no tolerance for a certain kind of conformity. I got...
View ArticleTen thousand flavors of tears
I am writing from a small café on the Champs-Elyseés, soaking in the final moments of my time in Paris (pics below!). After four days together in this breathtaking city, we just completed the...
View Article6 Practices I do every morning
It is my deep, hot, and holy conviction that the body of every woman is a living, breathing altar. Yes, I mean you. Overworked, underloved, insubstantially paid you. Yes, even underworked, overloved,...
View ArticleFinding freedom inside obligation.
Darlings- Right about now, I get to thinking. It’s about to be the 4th of July here in the States. The holiday where we celebrate our freedom. And I am just about to chain myself to my desk for the...
View ArticleDesire talk, with my bestie Marie Forleo!
It’s not an easy thing to bring a vision into being in this world. Especially inside of a no-pain, no-gain culture, where we’re so stuck in our to do list, we can easily lose track of what we’re...
View ArticleMy 3 Tips for When Your Desire Gets Real, Fast
Have you ever had a desire – a big, big desire – that you’ve nurtured for months, years, even decades – and then there comes a moment in time when you realize it is actually happening? That it’s...
View ArticleMy “make-it-happen” formula
I’m a New Yorker … and while I love being in the Hamptons for the summer, riding my horse, writing my book, dining with friends, walking along the beach, looking for shooting stars … Part of me is also...
View ArticleBurnt out, fried and crispy
I just turned in the second draft to my editor, and I am gearing up for the third and final round of edits for this book, which had been busting a hole through my soul for several years. And I gotta...
View ArticleMotherhood + a thriving career?
This post is part of our summer series on the Womanly Arts, in honor of our upcoming course, Virtual Pleasure Boot Camp! Sarah, a Mastery Grad from Toronto, joins us to share her inspiring story of how...
View ArticleHow I stopped hating my body (finally).
This post is part of our summer series on the Womanly Arts, in honor of our upcoming course, Virtual Pleasure Boot Camp! Alyce, a Mastery Grad from NYC, joins us to share her inspiring story of how she...
View ArticleThe antidote to self-doubt.
Have you ever been invited to step right up to the plate, and found you could not swing? Or turned down an opportunity for advancement, because you just didn’t feel ready to advance? Have you backed up...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood + a new wave of feminism
I have been reading all of the news about Planned Parenthood and finding the situation very difficult to process. Yes, I am shocked. Yes, outraged. Yes, disgusted, angry, frustrated . . . all of that...
View ArticleOf love, Princess, and the passage of time.
I never really wanted a dog. I am more of a cat person – the coming, the going, the ignoring you, the keeping-their-distance thing was way more my style. I value independence. But, raising a single...
View ArticleOf Grief and Gratitude
Paris. Mali. Syria. Beirut. Russian plane in Sinai. Like you, I have been continually heartbroken, shocked, and overwhelmed by the horrific acts of terrorism in the past few weeks. And noticing, inside...
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