Navigating gently as I can through these late spring days Trying to feel my way through This is a transitional time for me, schedule changes, family shifts as summer comes and my darlin’ left for camp. New patterns must be created, new coping skills, new treasures found, new rhythms… Ebb and flow, and trusting, trying… Read More
Sometimes when you’re in the thick of it, a voice whispers something important. Something that changes everything about how you interpret your experience. These past few weeks have held several of these moments for me. A newsletter I get from Jen Louden about self trust— it brought a reframing of the act of labeling our… 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
Sometimes a leap is a leap in understanding– sudden ah-ha! moments where something comes in just at the right time in the right way and we are able to see it/hear it/ feel it… Sometimes a leap is something more akin to blind faith, you do something because you can’t not do it, even if… Read More
Most of us carry self stories, and most of the stories, I’ve found, are inherently limiting in nature. We rarely have self stories about our expansiveness, our amazing gifts, our flexibility, our resilience, our capacity for wonder, our ability to connect, our immense love, or graciousness… Usually they are about roles, sometimes about capabilities, and… Read More
So these questions of identity have sort of lead me to think about when I was little. Most career books or counselors ask us to go back and resurrect our fundamental passions and beliefs to try to regain that innocent connection to our true selves. The question is usually something like this: When you were… Read More
My dear friend Eric commented on my previous post: “… I would like you to talk more about fiction. The stories we tell about ourselves play a huge role in determining the courses of our lives whether you regard the stories as fiction or not. I’ve been having conversations about this topic within my family. Some… Read More
