The Blog
Here’s where I share thoughts on the work of moving toward our biggest lives and baddest selves.
Skipping the Scale & Other Acts of Body Love
After 40 years of spending energy and time on critiquing my body, I’ve realized I have better things to do with that bandwidth.
9 Years as a Business Coach
An anniversary is a great time to reflect and as I traverse my 9-year coaching anniversary, my thoughts turn to why I find calling myself a business coach is in alignment with my definition of a Life Well Lived.
Imperfect Activism
Living our activism is just as complex as the world in which we’re living.
Practicing Being Pervious: A Route to a Bigger Heart
Many of us have learned that being somehow impervious to that which stirs our emotions will make us safer. What are we losing in this trade?
Francis Weller on Grief
“Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned...
Speaking to Discomfort
Last Wednesday morning, I had an email in my inbox that was exactly what I needed. Tuesday, I had woken the reports of the leaked SCOTUS document about overturning Roe v. Wade. While it wasn’t exactly a surprise, it was still shocking and disheartening and deeply...
Flowing with Emotions: A Practical Guide
Most of us are letting the fear that an attended-to discomfort will grow… when, in fact, the opposite is true.
The (Freaked Out) Farmer and the Horse
The classic Zen story of the farmer and the horse teaches about nuance even while the standard way of telling it strips away all of the human nuance.
Busy, not Rushed
It’s easy, so very easy, to default into feeling rushed. What would happen, though, if you were just busy?
Liferafts and Sturdy Piers
Drawing boundaries doesn’t come naturally to a people pleaser but the skills can be learned. I promise.