Posts in Conscious Relationships
Experiencing Joy & Pleasure in Outrageous Asking (even when I don’t get what I want)

Doing scary shit is the fastest, surest path to deeper self-trust, acceptance, and love. Because if you want something different for your life, you have to do something different. The bigger the change you want? The farther you have to push yourself out of your comfort zone.

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Are you out of ideas for how to make yourself feel better?

Tantrums are a sure fire way to move stuck energy out of the body. Babies and children know how to do this until they are blocked by adults. Animals do this naturally as well - full body shaking after a frightening event.
Check this video here where I explain more fully and demonstrate.

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Activism, Body Awareness, Celebration, Challenge, Commitment, Conscious Relationships, Dancing, Dating, Family Dynamics, Mindfulness, Parenting, Self Awareness, Self Care, Self Love, Soul Work, WritingMargot Schulman18, 2020, 50 Days, Article, Awareness, Birthday, Bodies, Calm, Cancer, Celebration, Chick Flick, Children, Choice, Claustrophobia, Clearing, Colleagues, Commitment, Communication, Community, Compassion, Coaching, Connection, Cookie, Corona, Couples, CrossFit, Cranky, Culture, Dancing, Deep knowing, Desire, Dharma, Divine Mother Nature, Donation, Energy, Enlightened, Essence, Family, Father, Fear, Feminine, Feminist, Friend, Game of Thrones, Goodness, Gratitude, Grief, Growth, Habit, Happiness, Hatred, Healing, Heart, Holiday, Hugs, Humanity, Human Suffering, Hurt, Ignorance, Inner Child, Integrity, Interview, Inquiry, Jewishness, Jews, Journal, Joy, Joyful, Judgement, Ken Foster, Kindness, Kisses, Life, Loneliness, Love, Love Language, Magical, Man, Maya Angelou, Meditation, Men, Messaging, Mindfulness, Mind, Mindset, Mother, Mucky, Murky, Nature, Open-Hearted, Orgasm, Pain, Pandemic, Parade, Path, Peace, Perfect, Permission, Pleasure, Potential, Presence, Prince, Punk, Relationship, Resolution, Resources, Responsibility, Revolution, Retreat, Rise, Safety, Self Care, Sculpture, Shaking, Shifts, Shoulds, Society Conditioning, Soul, Soulmate, Soul-nourishing, Spaciousness, Stress, Suffering, Summit, Tantrum, Teenager, Tension, Thich Nhat Hanh, Toni Morrison, Trust, Venmo, Video, Voices of Courage, Woman, Women, Work, Worksheet, Workshop, Wisdom, Writing, Wuwu, Yoga, Yoni, Zombies, woo-woo
Choose Love Challenge - Perform a Non-Random Act of Kindness (and brag about it to me)

Ok, deep breath. This whole lock-down thing is getting pretty old right about now. I’m over it. I want to just fucking walk into a coffee shop, smile at a barista and scarf down a chocolate chip cookie, without worrying about anything more than the cookie’s calorie count.

Is that too much to freakin’ ask?

Screams the frustrated and angry teenage part of me.

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Activism, Body Awareness, Celebration, Commitment, Conscious Relationships, Challenge, Dancing, Dating, Family Dynamics, Mindfulness, Parenting, Self Awareness, Self Love, Soul Work, Writing, Journaling, MindsetMargot Schulman18, 2020, 50 Days, Article, Awareness, Birthday, Bodies, Calm, Cancer, Celebration, Chick Flick, Children, Choice, Claustrophobia, Clearing, Colleagues, Commitment, Communication, Community, Compassion, Coaching, Connection, Cookie, Corona, Couples, CrossFit, Culture, Dancing, Deep knowing, Desire, Divine Mother Nature, Donation, Energy, Enlightened, Essence, Family, Father, Fear, Feminine, Feminist, Friend, Game of Thrones, Goodness, Gratitude, Grief, Growth, Habit, Happiness, Hatred, Healing, Heart, Holiday, Hugs, Humanity, Human Suffering, Hurt, Ignorance, Inner Child, Integrity, Interview, Inquiry, Jewishness, Jews, Journal, Joy, Joyful, Judgement, Ken Foster, Kindness, Kisses, Life, Loneliness, Love, Love Language, Magical, Man, Maya Angelou, Meditation, Men, Messaging, Mindfulness, Mind, Mindset, Mother, Mucky, Murky, Nature, Open-Hearted, Orgasm, Pain, Pandemic, Parade, Path, Peace, Perfect, Permission, Pleasure, Potential, Presence, Prince, Punk, Relationship, Resolution, Resources, Responsibility, Revolution, Retreat, Rise, Safety, Self Care, Sculpture, Shifts, Shoulds, Society Conditioning, Soul, Soulmate, Soul-nourishing, Spaciousness, Suffering, Summit, Teenager, Thich Nhat Hanh, Toni Morrison, Trust, Venmo, Video, Voices of Courage, Woman, Women, Work, Worksheet, Workshop, Wisdom, Writing, Wuwu, Yoga, Yoni, Zombies
What do you NEED now to feel ok?

I feel like our world is changing like that right now - sudden, dramatic shifts are happening all around and more truths are coming into clear and stark relief.

With the shit hitting the fan the way it has been, people’s true natures are becoming more and more obvious.

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LOVE > FEAR ( and How to Stay Sane in a CoronaCrazy World)

What do you need now, right in this moment to feel safe and loved?

Can you find that centered, courageous part of yourself?

I have been on a roller coaster of emotions myself - working through all sorts of emotional and mental swampiness.

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The Secret to Finally Feeling True Forgiveness

I’ve been thinking and feeling into the concept of forgiveness this week. Why is it so challenging to feel it for so many of us? Why do some people forgive easily when others struggle so much with it? And what’s going on with folks who hold grudges for years against people who they perceive to have wronged them?

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When Self-Love Means Letting your Loved Ones Suffer

Looking through the lens of “a pattern of lessons in my life” can sometimes help me shift perspective. It allows me to take a step back and remember that every human is walking their own path - learning the lessons that they need to. Given that truth, I know that I can’t fully understand, much less control how they learn those lessons.

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What do you call your Yoni? (Or your female partner’s yoni?)

What do you call your yoni? (And for my men friends - what do you call this part of a woman?) Or do you not call it anything - just gesture to it when necessary saying vaguely down there…?

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Try these Simple Practices for Peaceful Family Time

In my book Choose Love: A Simple Path to Healthy, Joyful Relationships I have a chapter called “Presence with Parents and Siblings” in which I discuss how helpful it is to let go of expectations and “shoulds” in these close relationships.

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