5 Burning Questions: Get Your Deep Cleanse On

Part of cleansing is letting go of mental structures that no longer serve, along with choosing more fitting structures that would serve you more optimally. My best mentor?  Danielle Laporte. Check out the 5 burning questions (below) Danielle created along with Rich, Happy and Hot Marie Forleo and let them cleanse your mind.

Q's FOR SELLING YOUR SOUL...

1. Say your "official" job title out loud. Three times. Deep breath. How does it make you feel?

2. How much money would you like to make, annually? Visualize that number. Feel its energetic value. What's happening in body, as you hold that number in your heart?

3. What's on your "stop-doing" list? What do you need to delegate (or eliminate), to make space for magic?

4. What do people thank you for, consistently? What's the common thread of golden praise?

5. So...for real, now. What would you like to do with your life and career? {Money is no object. Dream.}

Hope these questions provoke and carry you to new insights. I'll show you my answers if you show me yours!

BTW, join me in New York May 12 for deep cleansing with Danielle and Marie in a program they call Selling Your Soul. Be sure to check out their bad-ass video on their page. Makes my heart go pitter patter.


Ancient traditions such as Yoga and Ayurveda view our lives as a perpetual search for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual food. Our optimal health is based both on successfully digesting the nutrients of our lives as well as on regular removal of the metabolic, energetic, and psychological waste/toxins. Old metrics that make you feel bad or less than are toxic and need to be removed and replaced with the jewels of greater authenticity.

Shuffling My Roles

Was inspired by the luminous Kathleen Bloom of the Meditation Project to go a little nuts over Wordie, an online program for making word collages. Here's one on my roles. Rather liked the juicy result, but realized I forgot "mom." Oops. I keep forgetting that part, and how intrinsic it is. But not in a "I'm-such-a-bad-mom" way that I tend to fall into; instead: that was interesting. What's up about that? How do I get more explicit about bringing my role as mom into my work, integrating it more deeply and fluidly, beyond just: "I've got two kids, and I must leave now to pick them up from school."

BTW, what else have I forgotten? Oh, wife. Raw chef.

Here's another (like me, a bit more random and deliciously chaotic) composed of the attributes inspired by my Firestarter Sessions with Danielle Laporte. She makes me feel alive, connected to inner aliveness, like I want to go running.

Going into mom/wife mode now, unplugging, signing off until the other side of Shabbat. Peace out to you.

For Mamas Who Rock Business

More from Danielle Laporte, the woman who is most rockin' my world and getting me to move more authentically toward my true strengths in my work and home; that is, the aspects that increase my vitality. Inspired wisdom, particularly the part about "forget about balance."

for mamas who rock business from Danielle LaPorte on Vimeo.

I'm on page 64 of her FireStarter Sessions, and it's worth every bit of the $150. Get yours right here and light your fire.

Vote Now: Monday Mystic

Just finished my sacral releases, in my nightgown, of course, 'cuz it's President's Day.

Need your help with a little something: there are so many mystics to choose from today, I'm having difficulty choosing just one to blog about. Please vote in the comments section for one or more. We got farmers, professors, moms and entrepreneurs in the mix.

• Novella Carpenter, local Oakland author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. She had me at her first line: "I have a farm on a dead-end street in the ghetto."

• Regena Thomashauer, aka Mama Gena, Creatrix of the Mama Gena School of Womanly Arts

• Rebecca Burgess, my low-impact eco-artist friend and activist. 

• Marta Dansie, gifted designer and blogger

• Marie Forleo of Rich, Happy & Hot

• More Danielle Laporte, because you know self-realization rocks, and you know I can't get enough of her brilliance.

• Brene Brown, PhD, a refreshing professor from Texas who is an expert in vulnerability and authenticity.

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes, an oldie but goodie.

Vote on which one for my next Mystic Monday blog! Or suggest others! Particularly momtreneurs! And I'll get right on it! Thanks so very much. xoxox

What I Do: Organic Gynecology & Bioidentical Hormones

Often I get asked what I actually do with clients and in workshops and coming next month in WEBINARS! Here it is, inspired by Danielle Laporte's Burning Questions, and squeezed between seeing patients today and picking up the kids from school. Enjoy! Join the Love Train!

Mystic Danielle Laporte: There's a Bigger Story to Your Story

I'm madly, crazy, over-the-moon in love with a new mystic named Danielle Laporte. She is rocking my integrative, hormone-infused world and getting me totally reconnected to integrative medicine, and how to firestart the health of others on a larger scale.  That's her line in the title: There's a bigger story to your story. Danielle has a tremendous gift to see the Big Story and reflects it back to you.

Here's an inside line: Light your own fire right here with her $150 Fire Starter Session (FSS). Prepare to be transformed. Danielle's is an evocative path, treading new territory in the online experience of deep authenticity.

Here is a sweet little sample of what Danielle calls The Burning Questions. You get these also if you book Danielle for a $1000, one-hour 1:1 session (BTW, you can do that too, and deduct the $150 from the FSS).

WARM HEART : BLAZING PATH

1. When someone at a party asks you what you do, what do you say?  (And how do you feel when you say it?) 

2. How do you make your money? What are your revenue streams? What makes you the most money?

2.5. How much money would you LIKE to be making? 

3. What do people thank you for most often? What do they come to you
for, or say about you most frequently ("positive" or "negative")?

4. When do you feel powerful, passionate, free, incredibly useful, excited, inspired? 

5. What do you think your form of genius is? What are you amazing at (work or life-related?)

Let me know your answers and I'll show you mine!