Your Growth is Off-putting, Pal

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 is now referred to as a gap year. “You’ve changed since you started college,” she said to me a couple of...

Our Best is Inevitably Imperfect. Dammit.

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 of utter blankness while the hundred people in the audience held their breath and the however-many people watching...

A Few Bears and a Few Thousand Stitches

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 outdoor cats (and, yes, occasionally the indoor ones, too). In my first...

Wishing you What Ifs this Holiday Season

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 we’d sit at her kitchen table where we would talk about whatever was on my mind. Her eyes would occasionally dart in...

The Smothering Blanket of Overgeneralization

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 of us have had an experience along the lines of eating chicken salad that sat out on...

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