I feel vulnerable when I share my personal stories. At the same time, I don’t want to feel alone in my journey, especially when it’s frightening. Fear and I have been tangoing through life since I can remember and I recognize that you cannot go around fear but must go right through it. Allowing oneself to …
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Spring Renewal and a Fresh Start for Growth
Winter is slowly coming to a close and spring will begin to unfold with all of its beautiful new growth and possibilities. This time of year is perfect for each of us to refresh and reset by releasing old habits and inviting in positive changes to enrich our lives. Change doesn’t have to be huge. …
Living Your Truth
Women often have many titles: daughter, sister, mom, spouse, leader, member, world’s greatest dancer or even Vice President. We are made up of so many pieces yet many of us often lose sight of our authentic self, the purest essence of who we have always been and who we will always be. When we lose …
How to Start When You Don’t Know How to Start
Many times, we feel stuck in our lives. Perhaps we’ve outgrown a relationship, maybe we are tired of our career. Even beginning a process like drafting an email can feel daunting at times. So how do we start when we don’t know how to start? Here are some steps you can take to go from …
Letting Go of Judgment
A simple path to inner peace Each day we are faced with the challenge of making “good” decisions and doing the “right thing.” But who is in charge of deciding what’s good and right? Aside from basics like, “thou shall not kill” or, “treat others the way you want to be treated,” there are a …
Strong at the Roots: A Meditation for Authentic Living
I often think about who I am and all the things that led up to the me of today. As I meander down the wooded trail of long ago, my mind often wanders in the forest of my past. What I saw. What I was told. How I felt. As I think about the beliefs …
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A Story About Another Choice: How to Defeat the Expectation Bully and His Two Flunkies, Stress & Anxiety
It never fails. Either I’ve started a new client engagement, taken on a project or planned a dinner party. No matter what it is, somehow, just as I’m getting started, Expectation finds its way in, insisting, “you should do this… it should look like that… you should be this way…because if you don’t…well…it just won’t …
College Seasons
I couldn’t tell you exactly how I got here, to this moment, when my little bundle of a son went from being my Cookie to the growing gentle giant he is at 6’3”, a junior in high school, looking at colleges. It’s all a bit of a blur actually. I have memories of almost having …
A Mother’s Journey – Video Games
Video games! Video games! Video games! I know they’re cool, I know they’re neat but sometimes I’d like to dropkick them with my feet!!! My now newly turned 12yr old just looooooves his video games. I’m certain it’s an addiction and that someday, 20 years from now, a study is going to show how our …
When the Gusts of Life Blow Through: Trusting One’s Self and Tapping Courage
As fall settles in and I reflect on our travels over the past few summers, I’m reminded of the ways in which life continually provides me opportunities to celebrate moments, embrace challenges and tap my courage. We are now officially an RVing family and have created some of the most amazing memories from the comfort …
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