Tonglen and the Peonies ~ A Personal Story About Looking Inward.

This is a personal story about pain, peonies, Tibetan Tonglen and truly living through your own values —even when it isn’t so easy to remember how.

Love or Fear, Is it Really that Simple?

Have you been to workshops, or read memes on social media about this? Either we are acting from love or we are acting from fear. I have. Often. Yet, is it really that simple? Kind of yes, and mostly no.

CommunicationTerrie LewineFebruary 14, 2022love, fear, relationships, self-awareness, communication, feelings Comments

New Year, Same You ~ with a Twist

New Year ~ NEW you! It’s the theme of commercials and practitioners. Now is the time to make changes resolutions. My question is: Is it really? Energetically it seems like a time for something else.

Why Do You Have Sex?

Seems like a simple question. With two obvious answers.

Women, Self Care, RelationshipsTerrie LewineJune 25, 2019sex, self-awareness, connection, relationships, healthy relationshipsComment

Love Yourself First?

Loving ourselves is so deeply mixed in our history of not receiving love (or being seen and celebrated) for who we actually were. Many of us got messages growing up about how unlovable we were (often unintentionally) in a variety of ways. Add in years and years of trying to get our love needs from outside —wanting others to love us —most often unsuccessfully, the idea of loving ourselves is like gibberish, we don’t have a reference point.

Here’s the funny (not funny) thing.

inspiration, RelationshipsTerrie LewineJune 20, 2019love, couple, self-awareness, self-help, healthy relationshipsComment

New Year, New You. Why?

Every New Year you think about making resolutions. You are going to be the new, better you?

I don’t know, doesn’t that imply that there is something wrong with the old you? Which is the you, you are right now.

It is so easy to think there is something wrong with us.

inspiration, Self Care, Communication, RelationshipsTerrie LewineDecember 30, 2018healthy relationships, healthy, self-awareness, self-help, resolutionsComment

What About Sex?

Oooh! A big question. A complicated topic. One that so rarely gets talked about with the curiosity, depth and sensitivity that it requires.

Sex can offer us some of the most pleasure and ecstatic experience possible. It is also can be used to take someone’s power away, and create (in some cases) life long pain.

Communication, Relationships, SustainabilityTerrie LewineJune 12, 2018sex, self-awareness Comment

What are you Telling Yourself?

How often to you take a breath and consider what you are thinking? Here's a little story about how doing it more might dramatically change your life for the better.

Self Care, CommunicationTerrie LewineMarch 13, 2018nonviolent communication, self-awareness, self-helpComment

The OTHER Choices You Are Making this Election

This election season seems to have been particularly trying. In ways that I do not remember. Of course, it also seems that my memory is not what it used to be. Why am I at the computer again?

Oh yes, this election has had and continues to have so much energy, it is pulling people, squeezing out the hard, built up apathy and inertia. A deluge of thoughts and feelings are being thrown around flooding the thoughtfields. I am experiencing it like some serious weather. A hurricane or a tornado of sorts.

CommunicationTerrie LewineNovember 7, 2016politics, election, self-awareness, nonviolent communicationComment

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