When It’s Time to Stop Doing and Start Being

stop doing start being

There are days when it finally hits you. All this doing isn’t helping. The thing you were pushing forward so hard on is not working out. But despite all the evidence, you’re still standing there with the hammer in your hand, insisting you can make it work. Your stubborn streak is a gift, there is no one who can hang on quite like you (except maybe me!) but in this case the stubborn streak isn’t helping. Step away from the hammer. Life will not give up on you. It will continue to deliver its little messages inviting you to stop… …Read More »

Today We Follow Our Bliss

follow your bliss

Today we will follow our bliss. We are bold and courageous and we will not give our energy to Don’t, Can’t, or Won’t. Today we choose to invest in the places which feel good, where the vibes are all lit up and it feels effortless and fun. We will follow that sparkling feeling, we will follow our bliss. We will surround ourselves with the people who make us feel good. Instead of caring so hard about the naysayers and the poo-poo-ers, we will be grateful for ones who receive us like dignitaries.   Today we are too blessed to be stressed.… …Read More »

The Journey is a Crooked Line

The journey by robin hallett

Your journey goes in a crooked little line, not a perfectly straight one. It’s full of twists and turns and this gives you lots of curves and squiggles and I love that about you. But sometimes you get confused about the straight vs squiggle thing. When bad things happen, you greet them with some degree of, Oh shit, I am still not doing my journey right or this would not be happening to me! But this couldn’t be further from the truth, sweet friend. Your journey is not a straight shot. It doesn’t go from here to the moon at… …Read More »

You Are Not the Churn // Tea With Robin Episode 150

When we struggle, when we are churning in our upset, we believe the churning is who we are. Waking up means we recognize that this happens and are willing to believe that we are never limited but this energy trying to dance with us now IS very limited. Let’s use all of our struggle for our liberation. The fullness of who you are — Spirit in a body expressing itself as You, the personality self — is NOT the churn. This week’s featured letter: Help with my mother-in-law. How do I see her as the light and not as a… …Read More »

You Are Not Your Thoughts // Tea With Robin Episode 147

Hello, self-judgment, awkwardness, ego-stories, defendedness… do you have any of those? We can spend 30, 40, 80% of our daily energies in this space.

I find that most of us move in and out of these energies every day… it’s just that most of us don’t go around advertising this 😉
You are not your reactions. You are not your stories. Your embarrassed, wrong sensations about yourself? Don’t judge them as YOU.
You are not your thoughts.

You are not lost.

  You are not lost. Please, please stop saying you are. You are right here. I can see you. You’re alright and it’s going to be okay. Yes, this is a bump. It might feel scary right now. It might feel like things are spinning out. It’s okay, deep breath. Things are changing. You are changing. This feels scary, different, new. It’s hard to trust that you’re on the right track. I get it. But, don’t second guess yourself. You might feel tempted to give up but don’t. Your nervous system is listening, don’t allow yourself to treat the upset… …Read More »

Going Beyond the Ego Voice // Tea with Robin Episode 111

  Our ego loves to rule the roost. It loves to call you either an achievement a failure. It knows your fears and regrets, and it knows exactly the images to conjure to create your suffering. Learning to quiet the ego is a practice like anything else. Just like how you learned to ride a bike or fry an egg or began to draw… we have to practice. How do we train our minds to stop being so disastrous, dire, and scary? In this episode, I’ll introduce you to the Nope list… we’ll create a practice around our ego’s greatest… …Read More »

When You’re Spinning on the Wheel of Suffering

the wheel of suffering

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an alarm bell that would ring every time we got caught spinning on the wheel of suffering? An alarm loud enough to wake us up, complete with flashing lights and a disco ball. Plus a loudspeaker announcement: Alert! alert! You are spinning again. Please stop! Exit the wheel! Our suffering often speaks the loudest. The ego. The opponent. The pain body. The Robber of Delight. We each have a small and separate little self on our insides and this is who spins the wheel. Separate because that little one has no clue of… …Read More »

The Ego Always Finds a Way to be Unhappy // Tea with Robin Podcast Episode 63

Do you ever notice how, when you’re feeling down or a little stressed, your mind can go nuts with upsetting thoughts and stories? It will start up those Greatest Hits — the old stories about difficult friends, embarrassing things that happened, the ways you felt let down… and before you know it, what was a little sad or down feeling turns into this horrible ugly where your whole life seems to suck. Hello, ego. We all have an ego, and it’s always looking for grievances. The ego’s goal is to find a way to keep you struggling. It will find… …Read More »

There Is No Shame in Needing Help: How Letting Yourself Be Seen Will Truly Help You Shine

There is no shame in needing help

There are stories we carry around in our hearts about getting help, many of them warped by what happened before. Some of us are carrying these stories forward, expecting more of the same, and because of this we don’t easily allow ourselves to receive support. But we might not realize that receiving help is directly related to how well we do in the world. Our healing is directly connected to our shining. Our ability to receive is directly proportional to the power of our shine. If it’s difficult to receive, it’s difficult to shine and, I am pretty sure this… …Read More »