soulful impact / CLG

I believe we realize our full potential in this now moment by embodying the energetic space of true openness and presence. Our gifts come through via the energy we transmit when we dance in wakeful awareness, open our being to the divine and let the river of life through us. When we’re in that state, we’ve done our portion of the work: we’ve... See more

This journey is like a wilderness expedition on steroids. It beckons us to explore the wild frontiers of our living and breathing home planet, the expanse of the cosmos, and the dark fertile depths of our souls

I’d been diligently executing my mind’s plan for “success” and had made it to my dream graduate program and dream summer internship. Yet these shiny accolades weren’t making me feel the way I expected to feel once I reached them. The strategy of my adolescent ego wasn’t working, and as I began to face that, my life felt like it was falling apart. I... See more

Embracing your disowned parts means finding the willingness to recognize that, despite your ego’s protests, you contain the full spectrum of humanity and possibility within you. Instead of pretending that certain qualities you dislike in other people don’t also exist in you, try on the possibility that if you spot it, you got it.

Soulful Impact appears in each moment we meet with an awakened consciousness. It isn’t measured by objective metrics or numbers. We can’t quantify its impact, because it’s much bigger than that.

It’s the passage of divine creativity and sacred intelligence that comes through when we ground ourselves in the deepest truth of our being and allow our... See more

When you get yourself into alignment, energetically open and present to the totality of your experience, life will guide you to do that which is uniquely ours to do. Life will guide you to give your gif

The more I let go of control, the more I found myself more deeply and nourishingly supported by the more-than-human-world. Even more than supported — welcomed. Beloved. Not welcomed as the smaller, constrained version of me that my ego had been trying to force into being, but welcomed as the raw, flawed, messy, confused, and so deeply human being... See more

Choosing to embrace rather than deny the intensity of our feelings and emotions is like building a new muscle or gaining confidence with a new skill. It may feel scary and awkward at first, but each time you do it, you build more comfort and capacity. Ultimately, this practice unlocks greater integrity with yourself, as you stop fighting with your... See more

Based on a useful model created by spiritual teacher Michael Bernard Beckwith, there are four ways of being in the world: To Me > By Me > Through Me > As Me. I find it useful to think of these as experience states, in that we can bounce around between all four all the time.