Share with us how you celebrate #GivingTuesday In our culture, giving often has an air of separation and distance embedded within it. When we give to organizations far-flung across the world, we give to people and places we have never been or will never meet and while that’s not bad, sometimes it perpetuates a kind…
I had the power to create new stories for myself, new stories that brought forth more joy. I truly was a creator of my life, and a joyful life at that. When Gina and I started on our journey into sustainable abundance, we were both pretty serious—serious about learning, serious about the possibility of a…
Seven Stones is a bold invitation to lifelong learning and to live, work and thrive in loving authenticity, cherishing all beings. This month we are considering how to use The 7 Laws of Enough in organizational structures. We have used Seven Stones as a learning lab for us to create a space that fulfills the…
“It’s easy to be grateful at a banquet.” Caroline Myss, author and spiritual teacher, likes to say “It’s easy to be grateful at a banquet.” But what about when life throws you curveball after curveball after curveball? Can you still be grateful then? About eighteen months ago, Jen and I were attending our year-end retreat….
When is the last time you felt deeply rested? On the Run: A dear colleague of mine recently told me that she feels guilty “every minute” she is not working. Ouch. What do you tell yourself about work, productivity, rest? What messages did your parents give you? What messages are we all constantly bombarded with?…
“I belong, I know I belong because I am here” All it took was four words—four simple words on a piece of cardboard—to transform an anxious and uncomfortable experience into an easygoing one instead. On a recent road trip, I encountered these four transformative words, and they changed my way of thinking about where I…
“We are born fully complete, creative, resourceful and capable,” we write in the 7 laws of enough. Think about that. We often forget this truth because we live in a model of scarcity—of “not enough”—as individuals, communities and in society as a whole. At the individual level, scarcity looks something like “I’m not rich enough,…
Last week I proclaimed that I broke free of the money trap. I discussed how I created my own empowering story about money, including declaring I wanted a debt-free life. Both at home and at Seven Stones, I now live and work debt free. My success stemmed from implementing long-lasting practices that worked. I…
Part I I broke free from the money trap. The money trap is whatever trap you find yourself in—debt, immense wealth, IRS trouble or a willful ignorance about money—that prevents you from a life of freedom and ease. Debt was my money trap. It ensnared me for most of my married life: school debt, cars,…
Everything that exists in nature—everything—is given freely. No one earns rivers or mangos. No one has to get a certain degree for wood or clay or fish or sunshine. It is all offered generously, freely, openhandedly to all beings equally. Generosity is simply built into the fabric of creation. To reweave that torn social fabric,…
