3 Invitations for the New Year
A few invitations as this year – this historic, this world-changing, this illuminating, this very challenging year – comes to its close: I invite you to avoid the tropes … Read More
Good Values and Evil Actions
December 21, 2020
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Sarah B
Values describe the personal qualities we choose to embody to guide our actions; the sort of person we want to be; the manner in which we treat ourselves and … Read More
Turning Down the Focus on Goals
November 23, 2020
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Sarah B
I often meet clients who are struggling with a part of themselves only to discover that, tuned to a different level, the very thing that most vexed them is … Read More
14 Actions of Everyday Activism
November 9, 2020
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Sarah B
In November of 2016, I attended the Women’s March in my hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, with a friend and our mothers. It was the first time my friend’s … Read More
The Wisdom, the Flex, and the Food
January 20, 2020
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Sarah B
Yesterday, Theresa and I spent a handful of hours cooking together. She prepped salad fixings and veggies to dip in hummus; I roasted off some other veggies, made the hummus, … Read More
Resolve to Re-Start
January 6, 2020
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Sarah B
Babe Ruth had a batting average of .342. This is a very good batting average, well above average in baseball. This very good batting average is essentially saying that Babe … Read More
A Few Bears and a Few Thousand Stitches
January 7, 2019
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Sarah B
I lived in rural Floyd County, Virginia, for nine years. Living rurally means frequent deer encounters, groundhogs living under outbuildings, and not-infrequent gifts of mice and moles left by the … Read More
The squiggly lines of goal setting and a dog named Happy Jacks
June 4, 2018
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Sarah B
Twenty years ago this month, I went on a month-long cross-country roadtrip with my then-girlfriend. Somewhere in New Mexico, we set our sights on Four Corners, the national monument where … Read More
What to do when a goal is playing possum
February 18, 2018
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Sarah B
We’re well into February, my friends, and I’m curious: How are your New Year goals/intentions/resolutions going? Still hard at it at the gym? Eating those dark leafy greens several times … Read More