is it love if you’re all cranky when you give it?
I’ve looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow It’s love’s illusions I recall I really don’t know love at all - Joni Mitchell I’ve been searching the archive of my emotions, looking for the root source of the notion that love is easy. Romantic comedies and new age...
say thank you before you get there
I like to imagine my dreams coming true in great detail. Where I’ll be. What I’ll be wearing. Precisely how I’ll be feeling. And mostly, who I’ll turn to to say, “It happened! Sweet Jesus, can you believe it, score! we did it, the day has come, they called, I’m there, we made it, it’s...
find a new target for your long-unfulfilled dreams: a love story.
names have been changed to protect the identity of the temporarily heart-broken Louise and Lance* were best friends. Just friends, never so much as smooched. They were roomies, they got drunk at concerts together, they slept in the same tent, exchanged great Christmas presents. Lance dated other people. Louise was in love with Lance. Plain...
dude, want to know what will please your woman?
Dudes, (or masculine-energy-identified dudettes in pursuit of your own lezzie-ladies,) don't you wish you had a decoder ring for your woman? An unfailing oracle to help you decipher and make the best possible choices for pleasing your paramour? You have it within your reach. You can employ this technique at anytime. Your stealth and secret weapon against the confusion of romance is...your girl's girlfriend.
think pleasure is your birthright? your yoni does. meet your new prophet : Mama Gena
Pleasure. Seek and you shall find, my sisters. My friend, the inimitable and saucy Mama Gena, founder of the now-famed Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts is offering the Virtual Pleasure Boot Camp. The woman, the legend, the G-spot crusader (alias: Regena Thomashauer) is a force of nature. Her work is grounded in the sacred,...
open up any way
open wide. give your desires words. out loud words. tenderly gaze of the eye to eye. expose your craving anyway you must, under a blanket or backed by a rented band. reveal your intentions, clean. stand there, vulnerable, waiting. describe your dream, in detail. clarify what you’re afraid of and give faith to the opposite....
5 books for navigating the complexities of love
This is part 3 in a 3 part series. Read Part 1 here: 9 books that could deeply influence how you live Part 2 here: 9 books for deepening how you create + work relating Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion Campbell’s theories on romantic love (it is potentially “superior” to...
refuse to worry (and how to be more useful for your friends)
Worry obstructs possibility. Concern is pro-active.
Worry weighs things down. Concern can rise to the occasion.
Worry is wistful. Concern is penetrating.
Worry tangles. Concern peels back the layers.
Worry gossips. Concern enrolls.
THE secret to success. this is IT. for reals.
In one form or another, I’ve been asked this question a few hundred times: What’s the secret to success? Variations: What’s the single most important thing you’ve learned on your journey? What’s your key piece of advice for meaningful livelihood? What’s the greatest cause of failure? How do we overcome fear? What’s your pearl of...
operation secret valentine
We’re not from the same tribe, are we? Feline. Bear. Fire. Earth. Arrow. Tree. Finally, I revel in that. We are choice. Precise and free in the choosing. Not slotted, or arranged, or karmic. Not mated, or introduced. Not even necessary. Rather: Essential, my Love. Rather: Chosen, my Love. With select scars and stories, full...
- She has the knowledge you need to succeed. What she has to say is what our spirits need to hear.
— Martha Beck | Steering By Starlight - ... ignites the mind in ways that could change your career and life.
— Scott Belsky | Making Ideas Happen - Danielle's passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.
— Gretchen Rubin | The Happiness Project - ...the revolution you've been waiting for, it will shake-up and wake-up every aspect of your life.
— Kris Carr | Crazy Sexy Diet - ... the new, bad-ass Artist's Way.
— Linda Sivertsen | Generation Green - ... shows us how to do what the world tells us we can't: be unapologetic about our deepest desires.
— Gabrielle Bernstein | Spirit Junkie - The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to more engaged state of being.
— Jonathan Fields | Uncertainty - Money, failure, power, appreciation — The Fire Starter Sessions doesn't leave anything out of the mix.
— Barbara Stanny | Overcoming Underearning - Danielle is one serious Fire Starter, and you'll be one too after reading this masterpiece.
— Chris Guillebeau | The Art of Non-Conformity
there’s more in the hot shop
including freebies
- how do you want it all to feel? sensuous goal refinement + emotional magnetizing
- in honour of the fact that life is short
- i renovated the temple! fresh site + new treats! for everyone!
- how to conduct a great interview: punctuations + emotion
- focus, failure, assumption antidotes + surprise success: january roundup
- the manifesto of encouragement
- what is your relationship to…life?
- how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
- the “What I Trust List”. why you need one, and how to do it.
- 49 promo ideas. simple, grand + the tried n’ true.
