This morning I dropped my 365th bead into my blue bottle. Wow. Its been a year since we began this journey and it has impacted my life in more ways than I could ever imagine. What initially began as a sort of light reminder as to the value of each day has become a sort […]
Wow, we have done our first year of The Bead Movement. It’s been 365 beads moved from one jar to another. I’ve been moving beads in the state of fear, anxiety, sadness, happiness, love, and in pure bliss and gratefulness. The beads have been with me in the States, Spain, France, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy […]
Yesterday I did a very deep backbend in yoga, the deepest I have ever gone in the pose. When I got home I looked up what the significance of that was. Backbends are very vulnerable poses. Usually we protect our heart and front body, even leaning forward a little, hunching shoulders over. To expose your […]
Faith is knowing without having the answers, it’s trusting without the facts. It’s walking the path sure of your way, without a map. It’s letting go of your need to control the outcome, and relinquish the fears and the anxiety that holds your littleness in place. It’s to choose love in every moment, no matter […]
Writing a script is an act of faith for me. I can become frozen with fear with all the technicalities, the rules, the points that need to be covered by which pages, the turning points etc etc. I am an actress and haven’t been trained really at all in the art of script writing. I […]
To a large degree, summertime is for a freelancer synonymous with stress and anxiety. Everyone is waiting for decisions to be made, ie will my show or film get a go ahead. Few decisions are made pre-summer because the decision makers leave for vacation, which leads us freelancers in limbo, and we sometimes don’t know whether we […]
Recognizing ones own powerlessness and working out how to manage that is what I was faced with yesterday and I went to yoga instead of spending a fretful hour or so waiting for news. Although people often say how out of control one really is in this world we generally choose not to believe that. […]
Its easy to be nice to people who are nice to you basically and the same turns out to be true of a multitude of other things, like kindness, compassion and grace. I guess thats the measure of ones real ability to be gracious, if you can extend that to someone tricky. Grace periods can’t […]
