If there were ever a place where you feel like you are up in the heavens, it has to be Big Sur. This region on the Central Coast of California is over the top in every way. It offers dramatic coastline and vistas. It can be fogged in making you feel as if you were living in the heavens. And it offers one of the most spiritual, peaceful places on earth: Esalen Institute. Esalen is one of the major retreat centers in the U.S., (the others being Kripalu in The Berkshires, the O
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I was watching an episode of Super Soul Sunday, and they concluded with a Super Soul Short featuring Kris Carr. Here is a woman who was diagnosed with a rare form of slow growing Stage IV cancer in 2003, and yet she is still living more than a decade later and thriving! What really struck me during the interview with Kris was her attitude toward life. She starred in and directed a documentary on her illness called Crazy Sexy Cancer and rather than let the awful “c” word take