The circumstances of Ida's coming gave me the great gift of honestly looking at myself, present tense, and asking, "what are you interested in?" Because apparently what I was good at, or what I wanted in the past didn't matter as much as I thought.
Are you living a lie? Harboring a secret life? Pretending to be someone you're not? You’re not alone. In this clip from "Oprah's Lifeclass," Opra...
I first heard that phrase when I was a teenager and was friends with an elderly mystic. I remember thinking at the time that it must be some weird, c...
I now understand that we mirror each other back and forth. All issues others may have with me or my opinions are about them. I'm mirroring something unbalanced in them, and the brighter my light shines the stronger I will mirror them back. How it all feels in me? That's my stuff to handle.
When Tim Gunn, fashion therapist and author, visited me on Mondays With Marlo, he stressed the importance of staying true to yourself. Though it may s...
Don't be yourself. When Oscar Wilde said that everyone else was taken, he was kidding. And if you think that everyone else is taken, you just have poor imagination.
Genuine vision reveals that beyond the issue of jobs there is also the deeper struggle for self-realization and the individual need to find a person's essential life-work.
You want to know what's weird? Hiding who you are just to have the company of people you don't even like. That's weird.
Playing the perfection game is like being in prison. We hold ourselves hostage to a false idea of who we should be based on someone else's standards.
It is no secret that cancer in its acuteness pierced me into open living, and I've been working ever since to sanctify that open living without crisis as its trigger. But can this be done without crisis pushing us off the ledge?
It's taken me 30 of my 49 years to realize that not being who I am is more deadly, and it has taken the last 19 years to try to make a practice of this. What this means, in a daily way, is that I have to be conscientious about being truthful and resist the urge to accommodate my truth away.
I am a teenager just like the rest of you guys and have a hard time being heard, too. I don't want to change the world but I do want to change the way we all think about ourselves.
May we all learn from Steve Jobs' willingness to be the authentic being he was, to seek our own uniqueness and live confidently, courageously and creatively from that sacred place of true authenticity.
Many of us consider ourselves to be our own worst critics and I used to think so, too. I was always so hard on myself to the point of perfectionism. Then one day I began to see things differently.
Are you giving enough attention to the clues that your inner voice is sending? How can you get more attuned to the inner directives? Here are three ways to get started.
One thing I've learned as a graduate student at Dating Univeristy is that women respond really well to guys who a job, a car or a personality. Still, even having all of these traits is no guarantee.
