This is not the article I sat down to write this morning - it's the article about what I do when I get mentally thrown off balance!I wanted to write a piece this week about values. How if we can articulate our own values it can actually help in relating and being more...
Five Ways to Channel Information Overload
Five simple strategies to help proactively surf the information deluge that many of us live in so that it serves us rather than drowning us. I’m old enough to remember a world before email and before phones that held access to much of the world’s information if I’m...
What Are We Editing Out of Our Lives?
How do we decide what to share about our lives – with others but also ourselves? How does that help or hurt us?
Pick a Word. Any Word!
I’m always looking for easy ways to get new insights into how I am seeing and showing up in the world. I found this five minute practice very powerful for creating a shift.
Why Do I Get Up in the Morning?
Sharing reflections on a short video that inspired me to get back in touch with my ‘why’ for anyone looking for a quick and easy reflection to round off January with!
Halfway Where?
As we close out 2022 and move into 2023 there will be a lot of talk of beginnings and endings but what about those midpoints…?
Books of the Year – Top 5!
What was your favorite read of the year and why? That’s not a rhetorical question! I would love to know so that I can add it to my next year’s reading pile? One of my favorite things about moving in to freelance work has been structuring time for reading – for...
Regret vs Anxiety – Who Would Win?
How do regret and anxiety compare and contrast for you? Which feeling is most familiar to you and most likely to suck you into it's whirlpool? Which do you have more often? What do these emotions have to teach? A whole host of these questions have surfaced for me as...
When Your Mindfulness Machinery Needs a Service
Tonglen is an ancient meditation practice that originates in Tibetan Buddhism focused on the idea of turning towards and receiving suffering and pain, ‘breathing it in’ and then on the out breath breathing out love and compassion. Pema Chodron writes in a recent...
Metaphorical Waymarkers
When do we need to remember? When do we need to forget? The logo of my business is a cairn - historically a pile of rocks used in celtic and other northern cultures as way-markers to show travelers the path when traversing unfamiliar landscapes. Legend has it that as...