Revealing the Invisible Ink of Our Gradual Growth: A Year End Practice
When I was a teen, I got stress headaches. Not every so often but multiple a day for several years. And then one day, I realized that it had been … Read More
Gift Budgets and the Pain of Uncertainty
December 22, 2019
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Sarah B
Last week, I messaged Theresa from the aisles of a store: “How much trouble will I be in if I go a little over our gift budget?” On this, our … Read More
Assumptions about an Active [Shooter?] [Situation?] [Human?]
November 18, 2019
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Sarah B
I’m writing this at 7:30 on the morning of Thursday, November 14, 2019. An hour ago, I got a call from one of my closest friends. He happens to live … Read More
The Sunny Side of Imposter Syndrome
November 8, 2019
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Sarah B
Though the term “imposter phenomenon” and I are birth-year twins – give it up for 1978! – it’s only been in recent years that what we’ve come to call Impostor … Read More
Your Growth is Off-putting, Pal
April 15, 2019
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Sarah B
A recent coaching conversation accessed an old memory and floated it to the surface of my mind. It was of a long-ago friend, someone I met at work during what … Read More
Our Best is Inevitably Imperfect. Dammit.
April 1, 2019
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Sarah B
I can’t tell you exactly what alchemy happened when I was on the TEDx stage in Floyd, Virginia in 2013. I stepped on nervous and excited. I had a moment … 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
Wishing you What Ifs this Holiday Season
December 24, 2018
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Sarah B
For a year or so, I worked with a woman who is a medium and energy worker in Floyd, Virginia – Catherine Morningstar. I would drive to her house and … Read More
The Smothering Blanket of Overgeneralization
December 17, 2018
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Sarah B
In their book Conscious Loving, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks wrote, “When deeply hurt, your body and mind will overgeneralize, in order to prevent you from hurting that way again.” Most … Read More
Third Intention Healing of Our Hearts
December 9, 2018
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Sarah B
I found my soul mate of a dog, Emmie, in 2000 at the pound. Four years later, she picked out her partner in life and crime, Cosmo, at an adoption … Read More