Shayne Traviss

Ahhhhhhh! “Find your passion.” I keep hearing this over and over again. And it seems to cause more angst than it does happy joy, joy feelings. Not that I’m chasing…

Change can be a double edged sword. It can be freeing and rewarding, but it can also be scary as hell. , When you make a decision to take a…

This episode was shot on location in Toronto, Canada at, and after a talk with author of Money A Love Story, Kate Northrup. Shayne was deeply inspired by Kate’s philosophy…

This poem by my dear friend Susan hit me right in the root and heart chakras today, as life would have it, I am experiencing many goodbyes; losing my brother,…

“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us, that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” Emilo Estevez, … And when we allow ourselves to be seen fully, that’s…

WHOA! Here we go… After four years of blood, sweat and tears and in what space/time Carla, Colin (Empty Cup Media) and I had, here it is… The first episode…

  WOW oh WOW! What a ride it has been from the darkest nights to the brightest days (and everything in between) And now this… “Hi Shayne, Congratulations! I am…

“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway.” Glennon Doyle Life’s been a roller coaster the last few years and especially the last few months since my baby brother…

Remember today (and everyday) when you feel crucified by a world consumed by a dissociative reality. You are the universe (God) manifest as pure potentiality. And allow this knowing to…

It’s always a mental, physical and spiritual high being away from home. To travel the world is the greatest drug I’ve ever experienced and like all other drugs, caffeine included…

Not just today but every day. Celebrate women for what they’ve endured, how far they have come, and for who they are. Women are what give birth to the universe manifested as possibility.

How to benefit from conflict.

This has been the most challenging time of my life, and everything and everyone has amplified in the process. I have been somewhat recluse to my former self, going through a metamorphosis more powerful than ever before. But one must always remember.

I went out for the first time yesterday. To dinner for a dear friends Birthday, 39. My brother would have been 39 on his upcoming birthday, Feb 12. She was…

Today marks two weeks since the sudden passing of my brother. Such a strange almost indescribable feeling. Sometimes it feels like yesterday and sometimes like a lifetime ago. I’ve screamed,…

Facebook asked me what’s on my mind. My Brother  (for those who do not know, he passed away suddenly a few days ago at 38 years old)   My Mom,…

Today before the hustle and bustle of New Year’s celebrations, although mine will be very intimate, I am taking the day to reflect (self-inquiry) on 2017 and all that it…

Ahhhh! Resistance, that bullshit mind chatter again… For me writing has been in me to give since I can remember, however with it also came resistance and resistance showed up…

And herein lies the truth; and the truth has begun to set me free, the truth enables me every day to become more alive, more present, more joyful, to live a vivid life. Not without pain or suffering but with the understanding that amongst it all, who I am and to facilitate, to explore it all, to go to the depths of inquiry to find that place that has no past, no future, the guiding light.

I don’t believe in hocus pocus and I do (Jury’s out). It’s a constant struggle with me. Wounded and distorted by the New Age movement or what my dear friend Jeff Brown calls “New Cage”. I have grown skeptical and even quite cynical of anything that suggests hocus pocus.

We were officially selected to screen My VividLife: Equine Therapy at the MIFF – Muskoka Independent Film Festival. Equine Therapy is the first episode in my mini-series filmed by Carla & Colin Burwell of Empty Cup Media starring and co-produced by Me and featuring the work of Jennifer Schramm , Equine Therapist.