I’ve been deadlifting asking

I am not awesome at asking for what I want. Sometimes, this shows up in little ways, like not asking a server to have a messed up order fixed or not asking the person in front of me in the theater to sit up a bit so their chair isn’t resting on my knees....

The fruitlessness of focusing on fruition

I’m a culinary school drop-out. It’s true. During the first weeks of the program, I would look around the classrooms and wonder who would drop out; it was well-established that an average of half the entering students would. I asked my budding comrades,...

Discipline ain’t rigid, pal

Friends, last week brought all sorts of big learning into my world thanks to the intimate groups of wise, powerful people who came out to my two New Year Resolution Reboot workshops and my amazing new friend across the pond, Natalia Alvarez. (Hi, you amazing people...

One Big, Bad Misconception about Meditation

I sat down to meditate for the first time on May 31, 2013. That’s not literally true. I tried meditating here and there over the years starting from when I was a tween with chronic headaches and the biofeedback practitioner I was seeing said all I needed to do...

Getting to the Meaty Goodness of Goals

We are two weeks into this dandy of a New Year, friends, and as promised, I’m coming atcha with the third part in my series that’s kind-of-but-not-really related to New Year’s goals (or, blerg, resolutions). First was about the Pause, a critical tool...

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