i heart life: The How-To of Spiritual Living

What is regret? What is acceptance? They are our gauge for how we’re experiencing each moment. Our quality of experience is contingent on which of these we exercise at any moment. Regret leaves us stuck in the past and causes us to justify, complain, harbor, resent, and stall. Acceptance just allows everything to be and … Continue reading "EP18: Regret & Acceptance"

How would it feel to make peace with the past, forgive who you were way back when and allow your growth to unfold as it may? That would require you to stop judging the past! Would that feel nice, not to be judged anymore? Well, as much as you make others the defendant on your … Continue reading "EP17: Judgment"

Sex, Dating and Relationships Expert and certified life coach, Natalie Vartanian, joins me to discuss how to keep your sex and dating lives healthy. She answers the questions: how do you heal from negative relationship baggage, how do you make commitment work, how do you get over your inhibitions in the bedroom, how do you … Continue reading "EP16: Sex, Dating & Relationships"

Relationships don’t have to be hard. The effort you continue to put into your relationships might be going into the most inefficient places. You might be sabotaging your relationships because you just don’t know better. For instance, are you making demands or requests of others in your relationships? Are you requiring certain things from others … Continue reading "EP15: Expectations vs Agreements"

Forgiveness is to stop feeling resentment toward someone for not meeting your expectations. I like to say it’s to let someone off the hook for the way we feel–since what we feel is only a result of our interpretation of what we think happened. We all make mistakes; we do the best we can with … Continue reading "EP14: Forgiveness"

Happy Father’s Day! Just like our fathers kissed and bandaged our boo-boos and kept us safe from the boogeyman, as we age and become more aware, it’s up to us to heal our own wounds. The wounds I’m speaking of are more psychological and emotional than physical, but these wounds are debilitating. These wounds keep … Continue reading "EP13: Healing Wounds"

Journaling can be a life-changing spiritual living tool! In the same way you seek a therapist to listen to your concerns, dilemmas, problems, sadness or happiness, we can listen to ourselves! We can do our own inner probing–not that a journal should replace a therapist for some, but it could be a nice supplement. With … Continue reading "EP12: The Benefits of Journaling"

What is eating for nutrition? To piggyback on last week’s episode, we’re still talking about food! This time we’re talking about eating for nutrition with Camille Macres, chef and founder of Recipe RX. She recommends we eat according to our own body type and dietary needs–we’re all different so we have to consider our own … Continue reading "EP11: Eating For Nutrition"

This episode’s about mindful eating. Are you eating just to eat, or are you consciously aware of why and what you’re eating? How do you become aware of food, its ingredients and how it’s prepared in order to make better decisions for your dietary needs? Listen to this episode for some tips on how to … Continue reading "EP10: Mindful Eating"

It’s time to get serious about decluttering your life. But to declutter means so much more than cleaning your desk off, or donating clothes to Goodwill. So much more is involved. It’s actually a job for your mind. Once you get your mind committed to the change of living a clutter-free lifestyle, all else–the physical … Continue reading "EP9: Declutter Your Life"

In honor of Mother’s Day, let’s look at unconditional love. What is unconditional love and how can we express this in all of our relationships? Is it even possible to? This is what we explore in today’s episode. Have you mangled what true love is with your expectations and demands? Or decided that someone’s love … Continue reading "EP8: Unconditional Love & Relationships"

Go with flow. We can’t control what happens only how we choose to see what does. What if we allowed things to unfold as they will, and what does happen is a better outcome than we would have even known to ask for. Lao Tzu, founder of Taoism and author of ‘Tao te Ching’ says, … Continue reading "EP7: Resistance & Flow"

What is meditation and how does it serve you? This is your crash course in meditation–learn quickly and easily what it is, what it does and all that’s available in this discipline. We’ll dive into the root of meditation, the benefits of meditation, various meditation techniques and by the end, I’ll lead you through a … Continue reading "EP6: What Is Meditation?"

What is mindful awareness, or mindfulness? Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of, Wherever You Go, There You Are, and founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), defines it as “moment to moment non-judgmental awareness.” Mindful awareness is of Buddhist origin but is applicable to all aspects and walks of life. It is awakening to each moment, opening our … Continue reading "EP5: Mindful Awareness"

Dr Steve Taubman, author of UnHypnosis: How to Wake Up, Start Over, and Create the Life You’re Meant to Live joins me today to reveal his COUGAR goal setting method. Delve deep inside yourself to find out what really matters to you, not what someone told you to care about. Once you’ve connected to what’s important … Continue reading "EP4: Goal Setting"