The V-Word

I have owned an iPhone for years and have been hanging out on the edges of technology thanks to the young tech-savvy employees in my business and my kids, whose childhoods grew up on continuous, even if controlled, doses of the web world. I am just competent enough to be dangerous is what I always say and grateful that I have young people around me most days to show me the way back to digital...

The relationship to our mother is our first and it shapes many of our most intimate connections. When the relationship breaks down as it often does in the teen years, the cascading impact of disconnection is deep and profound. Don’t miss the wisdom and heartfelt inspiration of this mother daughter team, Sil and Eliza Reynolds. Learning how to be proactive about keeping a strong bond through...

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”  -M Scott Peck

We resist change. We prefer our known discomfort to the fear of what we don’t know. We stay...

Sil & Eliza Reynolds, authors of the book “Mother & Daughtering” shares insights on how to foster open communication.
Visit TheOpeningDoor.org Saturday at 9am PST to listen to the full interview.

Where is your Red Hot Sexy? Don’t miss Sera Beak, author and teacher about the deep love that begins inside. She shares her own personal journey of how her own awakening spilled into every aspect of her life. Red Hot and Sexy is a sensuality of the heart. Be prepared for a whole new perspective of what makes us most sexy.

Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions who...

Sera Beak shares her thoughts on reconciling sexuality with spirituality/religion.

Visit TheOpeningDoor.org Saturday at 9am PST to listen to the full interview.

“Self consciousness is the indispensible means to enlightenment; at the same time it is the greatest obstacle in the way.”  -Aldous Huxley

I live among teenagers, which brings me into intimate contact with the often crippling kind of self consciousness that awakens in the human mind during adolescence. The experience of being seen in these years swings between a primal desire and a punishing...

“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”  -Rick Riordan

Fairness is a value construct that is inborn into all of us. Even the smallest of children recognize and bear witness to experiences of injustice among their peers. This very human urge towards making things fair is one of the fundamental ways that love acts as a currency in life. All of...

Letting go is a real life choice. Not only a path to authentically stay present to the groundless situations that happen in our relationships, it is also a remarkable courageous surrender to controlling the outcome. The trade off of certainty for a real experience of the present moment is more than worth it as we hear author Laura Munson describe her season of unlikely happiness inThis Is Not The...