The Blog
Here’s where I share thoughts on the work of moving toward our biggest lives and baddest selves.
Rediscovering ritual
Ritual was something I found hollow during my early life. Now, I see how it helps us mark life’s richness with intention.
All Up in It with Angela Fontaine on navigating self-employment
Business ownership isn’t for the faint of heart; as Angela discovers this firsthand, she’s also discovering a lot of exciting growth along the way.
Every relationship ends
Or does it just change shape?
All Up in It with Anela Seliskar Barboza on finding inner integration in her cultural home
Anela grew up on the American continent – on Turtle Island – a displacement from her Hawaiian/Asian-Pacific Islander heritage that led her more deeply into her exploration of roots and place – an exploration that has been intellectual, spiritual, experiential, and all sorts of emotional. Now home in Hawaii, she’s navigating who she is – in herself and in community – and what safety means in this place that speaks to the depths of her being.
Early spring and the cycle of life
Because there’s something about the bright greens and pastel buds of early spring that remind us of how fleeting can be this whole life thing.
All Up in It with Eric Larson on exploring the heartbreaking humor of Alzheimer’s
Eric Larson has long used art as a way to explore the complexities of life; his mother’s death from Alzheimer’s is no different.
They used to say death and taxes…
But the ultra rich have showed us that, really, only death is inevitable. Question is: How do we want to be with that inevitability?
All Up in It with Sarah Hines, tending the fires of grief & legacy
Grief points us toward what’s important to us. Our legacies are the ripples of what we put into the world touching those around us, whether we know it or not. This and more in one beautiful AUII conversation.
All Up in It with Kim Kristensen on expansion/contraction, experiencing/reexperiencing
Sharing the from the midst of completing a 25-year marriage, coach, mediator, facilitator, and friend Kim Kristensen shares how he’s navigating what he’s all up in.
Communicating Toward Connection
Spoiler: Communicating toward connection doesn’t inherently mean achieving that goal…