http://www.womensarticles.com en-us editorial@womensarticles.com Sometimes life feels like a tornado touched down on an ordinary day and left broken chards of everything you knew. Change is often sudden and all-encompassing. When a major shift comes into your life, you may feel vulnerable and frightened. But keep this ... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_682195_24.html 04th November 2008 The following is a book excerpt from THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love (How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All!) by Tama J. Kieves (www.ThisTimeIDance.com) reprinted by permission of the author. I invite you to thi... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_682192_24.html 04th November 2008 The more I cultivate a relationship with my own inner voice, the more I step into a precious, responsive life of abundantly answered prayer. These days, I often feel as though I’m walking with an Unseen Friend, a playful, quirky, Mojo-powered force that... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_656521_24.html 06th October 2008 The more I cultivate a relationship with my own inner voice, the more I step into a precious, responsive life of abundantly answered prayer. These days, I often feel as though I’m walking with an Unseen Friend, a playful, quirky, Mojo-powered force that... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_656516_24.html 06th October 2008 Money has been on people’s minds these days. The media volleys the word “recession” around. It’s like a toddler learning to say a first word and saying it again and again. Personally, I don’t believe that staying obsessed about a future fear, i... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_601085_24.html 16th August 2008 Money has been on people’s minds these days. The media volleys the word “recession” around. It’s like a toddler learning to say a first word and saying it again and again. Personally, I don’t believe that staying obsessed about a future fear, i... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_601077_24.html 16th August 2008 Do you want to discover your true life’s purpose? More ease? Maybe even more money? I have one simple answer, so simple you’ll push it away thinking that it could never work. Here it is: Stop judging yourself. That’s it. End of story. Oh, you ... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_569588_24.html 04th July 2008 Here’s a little secret. You can’t force clarity, creativity, or genius. Yes, it’s maddening when you don’t know what you want--and no one else knows--because it’s your life. Years ago, I felt very confused about a relationship issue. I jou... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_553874_24.html 10th June 2008 I don’t know a better way to march our dreams into the world other than to just march our dreams into the world. You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_517006_24.html 13th April 2008 I don’t know a better way to march our dreams into the world other than to just march our dreams into the world. You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress rea... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_517002_24.html 13th April 2008 These days, many of us are in the bog-swamp-fog of transition. Transition is that Jello-like place on the way to a new identity—a place that defies certainty in the meantime. Maybe we have chosen to leave something behind. Maybe we’ve been heaved off ... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_501251_24.html 01st April 2008 These days, many of us are in the bog-swamp-fog of transition. Transition is that Jello-like place on the way to a new identity—a place that defies certainty in the meantime. Maybe we have chosen to leave something behind. Maybe we’ve been heaved off ... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_501247_24.html 01st April 2008 As we approach “Valentine's Day season,” I wanted to send a Valentine's Day card to each and every one of you. And then I decided, better yet, I want you to send a Valentine's Day card to yourself. It’s appropriate you know. Just think of all the ... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_474159_24.html 13th February 2008 Here comes Valentine’s Day, filled with roses, chocolates and the praise of romantic relationship. I don’t know about you, but I want to be in a romantic relationship with every bit of my life. I want to kiss the nape of its neck and write poetry abou... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_472529_35.html 11th February 2008 We commit to real change, and then we resist it. This cosmic dance has been going on forever in every ballroom since the beginning of time... I’ve committed to write more this year. It’s what I want. Now that I’ve said it, I know I will drag in... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_469040_24.html 06th February 2008 I ended 2007 feeling a little filmy, more than a little occupied, and slightly annoyed with the Universe, if I’m being really honest. I felt far away from the presence of a Caring Intelligence, like staring into the night sky, knowing the moon is somewh... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_457286_24.html 22nd January 2008 This summer I am pale and I love it. I don’t have the ruddy tan of the social. I haven’t gone to pool parties and I haven’t kayaked down any rivers. Instead, I’ve stared at a computer screen, but I am not talking about sitting in some cubicle, doi... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_209989_24.html 02nd September 2007 Sam called me recently for a coaching session to help him find his “life’s purpose.” According to him, he’d taken classes, attended retreats, listened to tapes, talked to counselors, read books, treatises, and tea leaves, channeled and chanted, d... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_196249_24.html 02nd August 2007 If you want to live a life that celebrates your gifts and fits you like silk…you might first have to lurch into brick walls or down blind alleys. Poet Galway Kinnell says, “And the first step, shall be to lose the way.” When I share this at workshop... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_194869_24.html 31st July 2007 If you want to live a life that celebrates your gifts and fits you like silk…you might first have to lurch into brick walls or down blind alleys. Poet Galway Kinnell says, “And the first step, shall be to lose the way.” When I share this at worksh... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_194867_24.html 31st July 2007 The following is a book excerpt from THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love (How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All!) by Tama J. Kieves (www.ThisTimeIDance.com) reprinted by permission of the author. I invite you to this dan... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_182339_24.html 02nd July 2007 I invite you to this dance. We live in times that cry out for love and radical resourcefulness. We live in times that beg for new voices of bold grace. Safe choices have led us into unsafe times. Hunger. Pollution. Crime. And barren spirits. We believed w... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_182312_24.html 02nd July 2007 Recently a client of mine was sick of "having faith" while it seemed she slogged towards her dream in thick molasses. "I just want to get there now," she screeched, scoffing at all her previous progress. I felt sad. This wasn’t the combustible kind of f... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_182248_24.html 02nd July 2007 The other day an acquaintance remarked how great my life was now that I had published my book THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love and "made it." I could tell by the fame-drunk look in her brown eyes that she saw me as a weekly gues... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_172701_24.html 11th June 2007 Here’s a little secret. You can’t force clarity, creativity, or genius. Yes, it’s maddening when you don’t know what you want--and no one else knows--because it’s your life. Years ago, I felt very confused about a relationship issue. I jou... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_165734_24.html 30th May 2007 There is power in daring to be different. Great advances have never come from the conventionally minded among us. It's always comes from us idiots who believe in love and freedom and goodness and peace. The fools of today are the visionaries of tomorro... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_157988_24.html 10th May 2007 Excerpted from THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love (How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All!) (Tarcher/Penguin) by Tama J. Kieves by permission of the author. When I first dropped out of my lawyer life, I sometimes walked downtown ... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_157001_36.html 09th May 2007 I was talking to one of my coaching clients and she was talking about not being able to stay with a meditation practice, so she gave up meditating altogether. “I’m either gung ho all the way or I don’t show up at all,” she said in disgust. We were... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_148247_24.html 18th April 2007 I saw a coaching client recently who wanted to get right down to business and plan out her new, bold life. She wasn’t sure what that life was, but she wanted to map it out, pin it down, and make it happen. She looked at me with exhausted eyes and silent... http://www.womensarticles.com/article_148246_24.html 18th April 2007