Tired of hiding out from core issues? Let’s start cutting to the core. You know the issues are there—the core issues that keep undermining your forward momentum—so let’s call a thing a thing, and break it down. What are core issues, and how do we hide out from them?

2012 brought with it a number of revelations and revolutions, moments of WTF?!? and moments of fully-owned joy. In summation (and nothing close to the actual order of events) this year... here is the 2012 recap.

If the point of the holiday season is to celebrate, to feel connected, to be merry--and the things that the culture at large has told you to do don’t actually have you feeling happy--why, oh why, would you continue to do them? Remember: if it’s not leaving you feeling fully-alive, it’s not truly living. Read more on the radically alive holiday: "on your own terms" edition.

Jealousy is often regarded as a petty emotion, the sort of thing that only less-evolved types feel, or perhaps as the domain of losers who like to complain more than they like to take action. But, if jealousy could talk, it would have something important to say: “Look over here, at this thing that you want to do, but are not allowing yourself to do.”