This today from a blog I loved and lost, and found again. “The term “imagination” in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental faculty that some people have used and thought about with the utmost seriousness. The sense of the verb “to imagine” contains the full richness of the verb… Read More
Free Online Campfire, February 8-10 This totally free virtual workshop is about quiet bravery: taking small steps, creating small adventures, allowing ourselves to explore new things. I invite you to join me here on Heartwork for an opening campfire on Friday night, followed by two days of exploring what it is like to try new… Read More
I’ve always felt I should know my Calling. My True Work. My Passion. My Purpose. I looked at all of these things as just different ways of identifying some core Truth just waiting to be seen, some inherent compass point, some something that would allow me to navigate more easily through opportunities, decisions, relationships, and… Read More
No, not the big transformations that come with a big whooshing kaboom No, not the kind that shake the foundation, shift the tectonic plates, re-order the landscape, knock us reeling…. No, not the CHANGES that come from the big stuff, the overwhelming stuff, even the overwhelmingly great stuff…. This is about pocket sized change. Little… Read More
Why does it feel so risky to try something new? Maybe because by adulthood, we have sort of found our groove or grooves, we do what we’ve done. And maybe we just don’t try too many new things after a while. We’re used to a baseline level of competence maybe. We’re used to knowing. Parenthood… Read More
As I help others navigate through transitions and choices and as I navigate through my own, some of the questions I hear myself asking over and over are about defining or identifying the downsides– So often, we have a longing and are pulled to do something– start a website, write a book, learn something, take… Read More
My Soul Sister and co-coach Dani Nelson of Life Unconstrained shared some brilliance (as usual) in her weekly newsletter. But this one bit was just too juicy not to share. I know I’ve written a lot about self-stories, and how they can be limiting (I promise, sometime in the not too distant future, we’ll talk about self stories… Read More
Here we are, a few days beyond the summer solstice. This is usually a time I feel a bone-deep low-level dread, an awareness of the creeping darkness, the shortening days, the inexorable march toward winter. But this year, the solstice came, and instead of pulling down and in in somewhat glum anticipation, I feel freed… Read More
In my self-coaching sessions, I came to the peaceful and gentle realization that change does not need to be abrupt, disruptive, fast, or driven by crisis or panic. It does not need to be revolution in the sense of storming the capital or fire bombs or even sit-ins or shut downs. Small changes can accrue,… Read More
Smack dab in the middle of the roar of real life, it is often hard to hear our own voices, tend to our own needs, treat ourselves with the generosity we extend toward others…. There is work to do, as there almost always is… and while there’s work that needs to be done for other… Read More
