I recently received an email from a student who was concerned that by listing the ways that good things are present or would be appreciated, we may be "placing other  gods before" the One, Infinite, Source of All that Is. Here is my response:
I get the sense that in your thinking, an object is not Source/Spirit, a person or event may or may not be Spirit, a quality may or may not be Spirit - and that is, indeed, what the culture teaches us. But what Emma Hopkins and Emilie Cady understood is that it's ALL ONE SPIRIT/SOURCE/SUBSTANCE. Every thing, person, experience, or quality we perceive is our brain-limited version of Spirit showing up for us. So, they're telling us, when we name anything, any person, any state of being, any feeling as our Good, we are naming Spirit, and by naming Spirit in that form, we are inviting Spirit to take that form in our perceptions.

When Hopkins and Cady encourage us to acknowledge the good and claim it for ourselves they are offering a way of experiencing all that we call good by identifying all that we call good and  ourselves as the same thing -- Spirit, the Source, the underlying power and intelligence of all that is. They say that we can have it without feeling required to DO anything to achieve or experience it. We identify with that experience, that physical form, that quality, and because we ARE it already (for we could not wish, desire, or imagine it if we weren't), we then begin to perceive it in our lives. We no longer seek it, because we realize we ARE it, and the form that is here and now is Spirit in expression - so it is Good. The lamp is Good, the food is Good, the body is Good, the person over there is Good, their healed body is Good...I name it Good to get out of the habit of naming things as not okay and  reinforce my understanding that all is Spirit/Source/Substance taking whatever form I call good, that all I perceive is what I have thought and felt before now, and is my very loving, cooperative Spirit Self showing up as my world for me.

​   Many of you knew I was making the trip from Oregon to Texas this stormy week so I want to reassure you that I made it through around the edges of the worst weather.
   I left the Florence Fellowship after Sunday’s service and the class that followed, drove to my new little home in town, changed clothes, finished loading the car, refilled my water bottle – and was on the road by 1pm. I had checked the weather and it was clear I wouldn’t be going south on I-5 with the storm in the Siskiyous, or north to I-84, with the rain and snow there, so that meant going East.
   First leg was across the Cascades after the first snowfall. Absolutely beautiful – though slow going, of course.

   ​I did have a significant adventure that first night, however.
  It took longer than anticipated to get through the mountains so I got into Central Oregon later, and the temperature plunged further, than expected.  All that meant Hwy 97 was a ribbon of ice, with a long line of cars and trucks moving slowly and steadily along – until about 30 miles north of Klamath Falls when I came over a rise and there before me was a string of brake lights.
   I tapped the brake gently … and spun around! Out of control! The first time in years of driving in all kinds of conditions. I ended up on the opposite shoulder, facing the other direction, stopped by the bank of snow created by the snowplow. Everything's working, not even really shook up – whew!
   Then the driver of the truck that had been behind me came over to see if I was okay. I was fine, with lots of blankets and food and water, and told him so. He told me he wished he could help but the car was too far into the snow to get me out.  Then he said something that I didn’t even really register until later: “yeah, that ice is something. It’s a good thing the truck that’s in front of me saw me coming and moved a bit or I would have hit him.” Oh my! My car would have been smashed between them if it hadn’t spun away! Thanks be to All That Is for taking care of me so well!
   He got back in his truck and a few minutes later the line of traffic moved a bit and a few cars came the other direction. I turned on my flashing lights and called my insurance company, and they started trying to find a tow truck. At one point a woman asked if I would be okay spending the night there…. ??!! On the side of a major highway with cars and trucks sliding in 24degree weather?? – possible, but definitely not preferable!
   I had just shut the phone off when there was another tap at the window. Another truck driver was asking if I was okay – such nice people!  I reassured him and then he said “would you like it if I got a few guys to help you get out of here?” And of course I said, “That would be fantastic!”
   The next thing I knew there were half a dozen men with shovels and garbage can lids clearing away the snow from under and around my car, then a guy showed up with a big tow rope, and another was in an SUV backing up in front of me… the line of cars and trucks had begun to move again but they stuck with me – wow.
   I have no idea what they tied that big, thick rope to but they did, and soon I was gently accelerating, keeping that rope taught, spinning the wheels only a little … and then I was moving! Out of the snowbank and onto the road! Whoopee! Thank you! Thank you! I shouted my thanks to all involved – and to the divine Presence they had embodied for those powerful minutes in the dark and cold.
   The guys were out of there in seconds, all back in their trucks and headed south. I drove north a few hundred feet and was able to turn around and head south, as well.
   In a few minutes the road was clear and wet, then clear and dry. I drove into Klamath Falls around 7pm, refilled the gas tank and picked up a turkey wrap. I was feeling good so I thought maybe I might complete the planned distance even though I was nearly 3 hours behind schedule.
   Heading south out of Klamath Falls was lovely – clear and dry. Then, suddenly I was in a blizzard, and the road was again icy. And the car wanted to slide. Nope – not happening again. I gingerly eased it around and headed back into town, where the Motel 6 was open and the guy at the desk said a lot of people were there who hadn’t planned to be.
   Oh, by the way, the motel reservations I had made online for much further down the road that night (and hadn’t cancelled) had not gone through – the server had gone down just as I had hit “confirm” so I was not charged. The Universe really does take care of me.
   In the motel room I checked the weather and wondered if I was going to spend a couple days in K Falls… but in the morning, I was awakened by car doors slamming. I peaked out the window – no snow! no ice! And when I checked the forecast for various spots, there was clear and warm temperatures at all points Eastward. So I headed for Winnemucca and Salt Lake City.

Almost everyone I see or speak with asks this question, these days. And I don’t blame them: it’s almost overwhelming how many people are expressing anger – and how much attention the media puts on it!
So let’s begin with the awareness that whatever is happening of this sort is greatly enhanced by all the media attention it’s getting. You know how it is: give kids attention for what they’re doing and they’ll do more if it; let people who are feeling lost and scared see an example showing them that acting out is okay, and they’ll act out.
Then let’s accept that the media’s job is to focus on what’s not working, not normal. When we do that what they’re talking about begins to slip back into – oh yeah, this is a one-in-several-thousand “man bites dog” news item.
Finally, let’s remember that the old rules of polite conversation (once called “manners”) were to avoid talking about religion, politics, sex, or money – for a reason! People have always tended to disagree, and sometimes fight, about those subjects! But today, those tend to be the primary topics of conversation, in all circles.
Recognizing all that, hopefully some of the distress we’ve been carrying has been reduced a little…
All that having been said, we are truly seeing increased fragmentation and polarization in our culture – across all nations and states. And, believe it or not, it’s a totally natural process, the result of several dynamics in the cultural system.
First, the shear number of people has been growing exponentially for decades, and all research on mammalian populations tells us that increased population density leads to increases in: gangs (polarized groups), violence, infanticide and miscarriage, and property theft.
Second, the business model of corporate greed has been globalized – which encourages competition and aggressive behaviors in workers, and requires assertive reactions by consumers and regulators.
Third, the cultural values of “acquire, accumulate, control” associated with that globalized culture, have led to the destruction and exploitation of our shared resource base, and so the behaviors associated with scarcity are increasing exponentially.
Fourth, the communications links across cultural groups have dramatically increased. But this is also the case within ideological groups, making it almost impossible NOT to have one’s belief system reinforced – it’s possible to live in an ‘information cocoon” that never challenges any of one’s ideas, however far from the actual “facts” (or other peoples’ experience) they may be.
So, the conditions for fragmentation and polarization are fully in place, and continue to expand exponentially. (No, it’s not Facebook or Google’s fault; they’re simply part of, and designed in a way they must reinforce, the process.)
David Bohm talks about the roots of this dynamic in his book Wholeness and the Implicate Order[1]. Bohm, a 20th-century physicist specializing in quantum mechanics, saw that the way we teach and learn about the world encourages us to separate it into fragments:
…the prevailing tendency in science to think and perceive in terms of a fragmentary self-world vies is part of a larger movement that has been developing over the ages and that pervades almost the whole of our society today; … tends very strongly to re-enforce the general fragmentary approach because it gives men a picture of the whole world as constituted of nothing but an aggregate of separately existent “atomic building blocks”…
He goes on to say that this tendency has broad implications for how individuals see themselves:
One might in fact go so far as to say that in the present state of society, and in the present general mode of teaching science, which is a manifestation of this state of society, a kind of prejudice in favour of a fragmentary self-world view is fostered and transmitted… (…mainly in an implicit and unconscious manner)… men who are guided by such a fragmentary self-world view cannot, in the long run, do other than to try in their actions to break themselves and their world  into pieces.

What we saw on January 6 is not who we are - but it does show us that something is really off-balance in our nation, our world, our communities - and our selves.
I've been traveling and listening and learning more and more about what's happening, which I'll be sharing in my new online class: Understanding Values & Viewpoints in American Politics.

That new class begins with this:

There's lots more to it, and you can sign up for it by CLICKING HERE.

You may also be interested in the talk I taped on Friday the 8th:

   For much of humanity, the year 2020, and especially this winter, is the darkest time of their lives. It's a time of fear and frustration, of dealing constantly with an unseen, poorly understood "enemy" that seems to have the power to deprive us of life, of coping with economic situations we've never seen before, of feeling cut off and separated from the people and places we hold most dear.
   While there are now and have long been troubles in many parts of the world, most of humanity has not faced any sort of hardship in their lives. They have grown up in a time of relative ease, as the global commercial culture has offered more and more interesting tools, toys, and ways to earn an income for more and more people in more and more places over several decades.
  So, without a history of having to do without or to find a way through painful or potentially harmful situations, too many people lack the inner skills and tools to help them through this period. Many of them haven't even heard the stories of how their parents or grandparents got through times like these. As a result, they don't know how to make a dollar stretch, or comfort themselves when unexpectedly alone, or connect at a deeper level with folks they don't see regularly. They don't know that "this too will pass," and that even the worst situation is often the best thing that ever happens to us. They only know that they miss what had seemed to be the most important parts of their lives - and they hurt.
  The consequences of this lack of knowledge and this deep pain become visible in eruptions of anger and upset. They lead to refusals to go along with regulations and placing blame on whoever's "in charge" or "should have prevented" the situation. They also lead to long hours seeking and searching for an explanation that can make sense, a story of what's happening that makes someone wrong, finding the exploration exciting in itself, getting all kinds of good feelings from solving bits of the puzzle, and beginning to believe that, somehow, that explanation will heal the hurt.
   These behaviors are normal, but in a world that has been focusing on short "sound bites" and "memes", rather than in-depth analysis of situations and psychological states, they were not expected. And in a world that can spread such isolated bits of information in a matter of seconds, they have escalated very quickly into what amounts to social movements. And within those movements, no other kind of information is allowed; if it doesn't fit the story they've worked out it must be "fake news."
   So now we have a humanity that appears to be divided. And it's not just 2 groups. It's at least 3, maybe 4. One group is those who have been suffering for decades and this is just more - consisting of perhaps 15-20% of the human population (which, by the way, is far fewer than ever before in history). A second group is those who've been through hard times before and are fairly certain they'll make it through, this time, as well, if they just keep centered and do their best - perhaps another 25-30% of folks. The largest group, close to half of the people in the world, are those who are dealing with the unknown and unexpected day-by-day, trying to do the right thing without really knowing how, feeling the strain but willing to keep going for a little while longer, even though they feel hopeless and powerless. The last group - and the most visible and vocal on the news and social media - are the folks who just can't cope with what's happening and are determined that it must be some conspiracy of unreality designed to hurt them and deprive them of their rights and privileges - about 7-10% of the world's population, most loudly in the US, but also gaining ground in other countries. 
   So now we get to ask the important questions: what do each of these groups represent in me? What part of me feels lost; what part feels like we'll be ok? What part of my consciousness, the mind I'm not always aware of, is certain that someone "out there" is out to take things away from me - and is determined to prove it? What memory or belief have I hung on to that says the world isn't safe and that what is unknown is, by definition, dangerous? 
   Because, always and everywhere, what we're seeing in the world around us is showing us what we believe, what we hold to be true, what we have assumed to be reality. That's the way the mind works, the way our perceptual systems work, the way humanity is wired. We always see what we believe; no more, no less. Always.
   And, as I ask those crucial questions, I can begin to see more and more layers of belief and assumption within me and around me that I have accepted. As I go into the quiet of my own mind, breaking away from the loud voices of fear and distress around me, I find whispers of thoughts and memories - voices of a parent or grandparent, from the television or movie screen, from a book, from the radio and the many songs I've heard or learned to sing. I find bits and pieces of a description of reality that has nothing to do with what's Real, bears no resemblance to the essence of Truth-made-manifest that is our birthright. As I sit or walk and breathe and listen to or let myself see images of what's floating around in my thoughts I begin to understand what it is that I'm seeing in the world - and why.
   In most cultures, this technique is taught to children. In almost every culture, this being quiet and reflective is part of each night's process. In the dark we can "see" with our inner vision that which was crowded out by the inputs from our eyes during the day. In our culture, based on the controlling structures of empire, it hasn't been taught, and has been actively discouraged. 
   Because, as we get in touch with what's Real, we are no longer subject to the fear-and-control mechanisms of the culture; we are able to live "in the world" of global commercial empire, while "not of it." As we understand our own thoughts and motivations we can choose. As we think clearly and intentionally, we can see and experience around us a world that is more like what we were born to be in. And, as we do so, then those things which seemed so daunting or disturbing fade into the far background of our lives - even fade away, for we are not concerned about them or affected by them. 
   In other times and places, we would be using these long, dark nights to go inside and discover, then release (usually in bonfires) those ideas that no longer serve us - or humanity as a whole - so that in the new year,  when the spring returns, we might experience a more heavenly world, a world built on understanding what's Real, rather than on what we have feared and worried about.
   Perhaps that's why CoViD-19 lingers? Perhaps we are being called to use this darkest time of history to find the Light of Truth within, to learn to experience and express the Love that is our essence, to make manifest in the world around us the heavenly world that is our birthright. 
  
Here's a link to the talk I gave on finding that Light at the Florence Unitarians for their Dec 13 service:  https://youtu.be/ucska5FL-Sc.

Years ago a woman I worked with said, "you know, we read the Bible backward; we're living through Armageddon and we end up in the Garden of Eden." It's a fascinating idea, and I've pondered it many times. Especially now, when it appears that the world - that is this culture of acquisition-and-control, is coming to an end, falling apart all around us. 
Recently I drove a few thousand miles and, as I often do, sampled the various sermons being broadcast along the way. The consistent theme was that we were living in a world of constant temptation to deviate from the path of loving wisdom into the world's foolishness and distress. And one of the preachers reminded his listeners of the story of what was in place before the creation of the world/universe. He spoke of the bright angel, the being who was so close to God that it bore the name Luci-fere: Light-maker. I listened intently as the voice on the radio reminded us all that here was a being who became aware of how wonderful it was and declared that it was no less than the Creator of All - for which it was "pushed" (and the preacher reiterated -"pushed, not fell" from Heaven. Then the preacher told of how the serpent in the Garden of Eden was the same being, taking physical form, and, having first questioned what God's instructions were concerning the Tree of Knowledge, stated a lie: "you will not die but will be like God" and to Adam and Eve were expelled - not fell - from Eden.
For several hundred miles I considered these words. I reflected on the thoughts I'd had a couple weeks back when I realized that it's not that anyone is prevented from entering, or staying, in that state of being we call Heaven, but that some patterns of thought-feeling simply cannot support being in that state. Pride, fear, anger, and shame are some of the states of thought-feeling that can't be experienced while experiencing Heaven, so if we remain attached to those thought-feelings we are unable to be in that state we call Heaven. 
From that state of reference I could immediately understand how Lucifer, with that pride, would no longer be able to experience the heavenly state of being. And, reflecting on the fig leaves Adam and Eve thought they now needed, I could see how their shame would prevent them from being able to maintain the close relationship with their Creator that was the defining characteristic of Eden.  Feeling shameful, they would have to leave, and experience what a life based on duplicity and shame is like.  
Not too surprisingly, when I returned home and got online, one of my favorite online teachers had just posted a YouTube on the subject of the Tree of Knowledge...  

Here, then, is yet another interpretation and understanding of the nature of Eden - and the "sin" that decided the fate of Adam and Eve. Isn't it wonderful? The fundamental Jewish principle, that the work of being human (tikkun) is to fix what is broken in the universe, is explained in a way that allows us to let go of the idea that we were born into shame and lies. Thank you, Rabbi, so much, for this insight!
So, as I look around me at the broken world that we are living in today, I see, not more shame and lies, but more ways in which the old story is beginning to break down and a new one, based on the fundamental beauty and lovingness of humanity is beginning to replace it. 
What we are seeing today is the possibility of living in our greatness, rather than a story of our poverty of spirit and character. What we are learning today is how powerful our light is to burn away the dark shadows we've been afraid of - when we let it shine.

A high wind blew from the NE across Oregon the other night, carrying smoke from dozens of wildfires with it. The next morning, this is what a friend's view of her yard and the ocean beyond looked like. Really. No filters on the camera - and no fire within miles!

Today it's better here. Looks like a smoggy day in 1970s LA with the sun an orange disk through the haze. The power was back on this morning so I've vacuumed the first layer of ash that blew through the cracks with the 70+ mph winds the other night, but everything feels gritty and I wear a mask outside to filter our the ash, breathing in thru the nose behind the mask and out thru an uncovered mouth - much easier on the lungs when walking. But friends and family are now being evacuated from the fires that the wind started - all over the state.
  And, of course, I'm looking at the meaning behind the experience. What's really going on here? What in our consciousness is being made manifest in our experience?
  And, again, there are so many levels!

•   First level of possible explanation - every other region of the continent has had major disasters this year and now it's time for the Pacific Northwest to get its share. Ouch! Don't like that one much! But it is part of our belief system, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were at least part of what's happening here.
•   Second level, additional possibility - there's been a huge immigration to Oregon of Californians running away from wildfires. - and guess what! What we resist (or run away from) persists, and they brought what they were avoiding with them. We Oregonians bought into their distress and to some extent are now experiencing the effects of that. Don't like this one much either, but it is how things work: we get what we accept as real and get more of what we have emotions around.
•   Third level - as the veil is thinning between dreams and reality, people's fears are becoming their experience immediately and in spades. With the media focusing on all the fires in California, as well as the fires in the "riots" happening in cities when protesters, police, and inciters clash, it's not too surprising that such things are in peoples' minds, and must therefore become their experience. 

  All of these possible explanations are based on the fact that we experience what we believe and focus on. And that is, I'm sure, a big contributor to the level of distress being experienced.
  But there's something more, something even deeper, happening here. As I was cleaning up the ash that covered the surfaces of my little house, and looked out the window at the smoke-filled air this morning, I felt a flashback to times when I've been "cleansed by smoke" and thought of the cleansing effect of fire. Perhaps that's what's really happening in all this. If we could but see it and understand it, we might be able to take this whole experience to a new level.

  The cover of my latest ebook reflects this. It's a picture a friend took at a "fire puja" a cleansing ceremony, a time of release and renewal. The light and the heat and the intensity of the experience are all part of the process of letting go of attachments to things of the past and beginning to create - or become - something that's more fully who we are capable of being. 
   What if all this fire and ash, and all the smoke in the air is just that?
   What if we are being cleansed?
  What if we are being prepared to become something more than we've allowed ourselves to be thus far?
    What if ...?
   I'm certain that this is the time when all of us are being called to live and love and see life at a whole new level of being. Knowing that I accept the gift of this smoke and receive the cleansing and opening to new possibility that it offers. 

May the light and love and cleansing Spirit of Life fill you and your world, lifting all of us to new heights of being in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

​Recently there’s been a flood of descriptions of dreams, visions, and Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) in which Jesus is telling people to pray for Trump and Barr to turn around a potential disaster that is expected this fall: a new wave of distress and with it, a heavy-handed military presence eliminating our freedoms – going beyond the methods that were tested and proven effective this past spring.
I’ve been listening very carefully to what’s being said for they hold a kernel of a much deeper process going on, and hold clues to my own development.
Both religious and non-religious (but spiritual) people are getting these messages, in various countries. They’re all being told in multiple ways that another wave of distress is coming this fall, and it could be worse than what we’ve been through. Many are being encouraged to deepen their spiritual practice and stock up on supplies to minimize its effects. Bible-based Christians are getting a very clear political message as well:

• They’re being told that Donald Trump’s election stopped a political and economic plan that is designed to enslave all Americans in a dark future that will enable a very few powerful people to live well and free.
• They’re being told that we’ve been through one, but more waves of distress are coming (some say a third one is on the way; some say 2 more); with the radical shift in political and social expression, with the 2018 election being the 1st wave of disruption; the CoVid-19 pandemic a second wave, and the oncoming flu season with possibly a new strain could be another, as could violent reactions to the elections being met with military force.
• They’re being told “Trump is turning people to God” and needs their prayers to continue to do this important work.
• They’re being told to earnestly pray for Trump and his Attorney General, Bill Barr, to put an end to the evil and corruption that has, for years, been everywhere in the media and government.
• They’re being told that undoing Roe v. Wade will return America to its blessed state.
• They’re being told that the passionate action of Jesus’ Church is the only thing between humanity’s glory and its degradation into slavery.

 To address all this they’re being encouraged in these visions to do four things:

1. Pray for the current leaders of the nation;
2. Let go of any tendencies to turn away from Jesus’ teachings, including the belief that individuals can do anything without divine support;
3. Stock up on essentials to help those who will be in need as the next wave of distress hits;
4. Vote in the November election for the people who they know will do the right thing, which for the “religious right” means will undo Roe v. Wade, which they’ve believed since 9/11 has put a curse on the US because the government is supporting the killing of innocent beings.

 And they have accepted these images and instructions at face value and are sharing them with the world.

I’ve spent the better part of the last couple months digesting all of this: listening, observing, noting consistencies and differences, comparing what I’ve perceived with other sources of information and, finally, going inside to find my own spiritual guidance. It hasn’t been easy, and some of it hasn’t been pleasant, but I think I’m beginning to get the deeper understanding that can guide us all. There are, of course, multiple levels of interpretation of these visions, and I’m outlining them in a new book about Apocalypse, which I hope to complete by the end of the month.
There are also multiple levels of interpretation for the instructions received, the primary one being: use the power you have to bring Heaven (a state of being in which beauty, love, and harmony are the norm) and Earth (a state of being in which attachment to material things is a constant source of distress) together. ​

In these changing times, with uncertainties in the job market, the stock market, and the climate, many people are focusing their fears on money, as if money were the source of their wellbeing. Totally understandable. We’ve been taught in many ways that our survival, much less our ability to have nice things and go nice places, is a function of how much money we receive and can spend.
On top of that it’s built into the culture that we live in to think that only if we’re working hard can have (do we deserve) the funds that allow us to live well. Otherwise we’ll suffer – and, worse, be dependent on others.
Well, there’s much more to our relationship with money than that. When I teach my “Money Workshop” I offer the following chart and explain the whats and whys and wherefores of each box. 

I won’t do that here, but you may find it useful to explore it and see where you are – and have been – and where the folks who advise you are, as well. I think you will hear what they have to say in a very different way when you understand the age/stage they’re operating from when they’re sharing their current wisdom.
And, if you’re on the journey from Middle Years to Elder, you may also find the following piece from Eric Butterworth’s Spiritual Economics useful:

• I am secure, for I know who I am: a richly endowed extension/expression of the Source of All that is.
• I am secure in all I do for I know my oneness with the divine process.’
• I am secure in all I have, for I know my treasure is in my mind, not in my things.
• I live my life from day to day as if the divine supportive substance were as exhaustless and dependable as the air I breathe, which it most certainly is.

Blessings of Peaceful Prosperity be upon us all! ​

​One of the folks in my circle let me know she was really deep in overwhelm… this was my response.  I share it in the hopes you may find something useful in it, too…
 
On the outside, it makes sense: you really have 2 kinds of jobs going, plus maintaining a marriage (which I believe ought to be recognized as a part-time job for the supportive spouse).
 
On the inside, though, is where the problem is. It sounds like you're trying to live your life using your personal energy, rather than the divine energy that is flowing through you. It sounds also as if you think you need to do big things to experience the divine energy. Both can lead to the kind of fatigue you describe.
 
To regain that sense of energy flowing, try this:

1. before you open your eyes every morning, feel gratitude for the bed and the home and the food in the pantry and anything else that comes to mind.
2. Take a long, slow, deep breath and feel the energy flowing into the body with the breath - then release it, imagining the energy moving in and through every cell as the air flows out.
3. Then stretch, feeling the muscles responding and taking in that energy. Every day. 

Doing the stretch every time you change tasks during the day would be good, too.  You're just reminding the body what you know in your mind - that you are constantly supplied and supported by the divine.
 
The next step is to start to reframe your thoughts. In 2 areas:

• Fatigue is often the result of things undone... we're keeping track of all that remains to be done. So,
  1. every time you accomplish something - however small - give yourself a pat on the back (virtual  :) 
  2. As you're getting ready for the night, congratulate yourself on each of the many things you actually did. Something like, "it's been a good day. I got the space by the door weeded, put 2 meals on the table, enjoyed them, and cleaned up after, a load of laundry is done, and my client today really could feel some changes, and we made good progress on that marketing idea."  Every day, every accomplishment.
  3. Then give thanks that it all happened and now you get the delight of a good rest.
• Feeling drained is often a sign that we're not doing what we thought was ours to do. Sometimes you feel you’re not where you expected to be doing what you expected to be doing, nor are you in a community that you expected your community to be. All of that can take the life out of you. But you made the choice. Part of you says "made your bed, lie in it" and part of you is going "but this isn't how I wanted to be living my life!" That battle is exhausting and can lead to all kinds of symptoms. What would happen if you started thinking, instead, that this is a strange but very helpful stage in your journey toward living the life you have dreamed? What if you could measure the ways in which what you're doing now is a big step toward being and doing the life that you feel called to? NOT a diversion that is in conflict, but a part of the process of getting there?

 I think you'll find very quickly that the energy is flowing rather than blocked, and you feel much better about your life!