Author: Lee Byrd

My dearest love, Craig, and I had a long-standing tradition of removing our shoes when we came home. We considered our home a sacred sanctuary, and removing our shoes showed respect.  When we built our home in Colorado, we created a small room called the mud room at the front of the house. We lived… Continue reading Please, Remove Your Shoes!

When Craig and I traveled, we always found a botanical garden to visit. Plants were one of Criag’s passions. He was a fantastic gardener. To Craig’s delight, while visiting a garden in Florida, we discovered a Night Blooming Cereus. Being daytime, it wasn’t blooming, but the plant was still quite spectacular. As if we were… Continue reading To Live and Die Like the Night Blooming Cereus 

Let’s face it: When we feel good mentally, emotionally, and physically, we feel equipped to climb any mountain. And when we don’t feel good, we drop into an often overwhelming mountain of despair. Instead of believing we can scale that mountain, we pull back into ourselves, sometimes thinking we are worthless and not good enough. … Continue reading Move That Mountain!

Healing My Roots I am safe and at home in my body. When I woke that day with my body inflamed and in so much pain, I knew intuitively that I was out of balance physically and emotionally. Immediate relief came through Western medicine; this got me to a place where I was mentally capable… Continue reading Healing My Roots

You and I We shared adventures, didn’t we? We traveled.  We laughed.  We cried.  We fought and we made love.  You and I. Old, old Souls, you and I Finding one another again I knew your every breath You knew my every sigh Love reborn after lifetimes You and I Mornings hot tub, sipping steamy… Continue reading You and I

It’s 8 a.m. on a steamy summer morning; tufts of white clouds lack​a​dai​si​cal​ly drift across the parched blue sky, water lazily laps the shore. Gulls nap in nearby dunes, reluctant to move in the morning heat.  My two trusty 4-legged companions and I move at our usual brisk pace, which is the habit for these… Continue reading Love-Awareness: The Treasure Search Ritual

Learning to see with the eyes of the heart. What does the Presence of Love feel like? Can we accept the fact that love is who we are, that it is our true nature? There’s nothing to earn, nothing to gain. It is a simple, unbiased, fact that we are love.  By its very nature,… Continue reading The Presence of Love Within Me

In our weekly Sunday Morning Meditation, we explored Values and ways that we step away from our values to please others—such as a boss, friend, or family member. The first question to arise was: What are your values? Then, of course, why do you dismiss or set aside your values? Then someone asked: What are… Continue reading Run From What’s Comfortable! 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃🏾‍♂️

Here’s the irony: I love to meditate and do gentle movements, practice breathwork, and journal deep-heart thoughts and feelings. I love to write, read, and help others. But I almost always find some level of resistance to each of these activities. I’m not entirely sure why; I’m still working on that one. I know it… Continue reading So Much Resistance To So Many Things!

I’ve never met anyone who, if telling the truth, hasn’t experienced guilt. Many carry guilt around, declaring it part of the human condition.  Guilt can be a helpful emotion reminding us that we may have made a mistake, like neglecting to pick up milk for breakfast or forgetting a friend’s birthday or anniversary. With a… Continue reading Is Guilt Dragging You Down?