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What Gifts Open Your Heart?

What gifts open your heart - a meal prepared by a friend, a smile from a stranger, a hot shower?

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Tax Time Drama and Relief

Money is full of drama. But tax season is a collective drama—trauma, for some—where we are all simultaneously taking an accounting of money in our lives.

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Taking Emotional and Financial Risks

Selling a small business brings up unexpected emotions and big questions.

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Homelessness Awareness

The stories we tell about money (lacking it or having abundance) are important, and so is increasing our awareness.

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Out of Our Money Isolation

Want to understand other people's relationship with money? Go inside to discover your own.

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How Much Is Enough?

What a tea ceremony revealed about my relationship with money.

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Cultivating Generosity

Ordinary generosity is extraordinary.

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On Giving

Gifting is contagious. And as the Pope says, it is "always right" to give to the needy.

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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

Why do we give so much weight to competition?

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What Remains When All Is Lost?

How would you cope if you lost all your possessions?

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Giver, Receiver, Gift

The year-end pressure to buy gifts for family and friends, and to donate, is on. How do you feel about giving and receiving?

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The Hunt for Things

A year of no shopping—cutting back on acquiring things has been good medicine for me.

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I Never Feel I Quite Do Justice to the Topic of Money...

Money is an "inside" job, in addition to an "outside" job.

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Of Light and Dark

Dark feelings are an unavoidable part of our money lives too.

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Walking The Way

Several aspects of my walk along The Camino relate to our money and emotional lives--and are teachings we can cultivate at home too.

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Consumption of Things and Food

Taking a vow to modify my consumption. Last year it was things, this year it's food.

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Taking a Pause

Taking a pause—by quieting constant doing—may reveal new interests and opportunities.

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Break "Bad" Money Habits

Our "bad" habits with money are communicating something to us--we just need to learn to listen to what they are telling us.

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The Emotional Economics of My Vegetable Garden

I didn't plant a vegetable garden to save money but it has brought me surprising and unexpected financial and emotional benefits.

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How to Navigate Through Unsettling Times?

Perilous Times Ahead: One helpful way to navigate through them.

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