I just had my mind blown wide open by a TED talk. Dr. Brené Brown, a researcher, storyteller and ‘magic pixie’ was talking about her experience researching vulnerability and shame. She concluded that vulnerability is the state from which our ability to feel joy, to create, to belong and to love originate. But since [...]
In January of 2009, I went to a fancy New England spa for a girls’ weekend. t was during a particularly challenging time in my career, and I was glad to be getting away to focus on my own wellness for a few days. By the way, “particularly challenging time,” is positive lifecoachspeak meaning “a [...]
I’ve always been a prolific and detailed dreamer. Luckily, the more bizarre the dream, the deeper the meaning that comes out of the images and metaphors my sleeping brain dreams up for me. So when an alligator opened its fearsome jaws hoping to bite off my flip-flop-clad feet, [...]
Sunrise in Oahu isn’t just a gradual brightening in the eastern sky over a placid ocean, accompanied by the obligatory breathtaking pink-gold clouds. It’s also a deep gray mass obscuring the top of a nearby volcanic mountain, shedding buckets of rain, and the twinkling lights of the streets and houses on a distant hillside, as [...]
I had an epiphany this week, after facilitating a workshop for professionals who are in the midst of career transitions that none of them initiated. The kind of transition that shakes confidence to the core, and causes fear-mongering lizard brains to stand up and be (double-) counted. Most of the participants still had their senses of humor [...]
I had the honor of facilitating a private group workshop this weekend, with eight amazing women. There was a lot of laughter and a river of tears, and each woman seemed to move her own healing forward in some way. The theme was “Getting Unstuck.”
What struck me is that it really didn’t matter what [...]
You may remember some of my posts about magic from last spring, where a stick of gum and a bent spoon were both the result of a bit of ‘mundane magic.’ Since those days, whenever I hear someone else talk about some magical or synchronous event, I [...]
I have always hated New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve never been able to sustain one, then ended up feeling inadequate, which it turns out was the misguided reason for setting it in the first place. My resolutions always seemed to come from some need to be a better person–to look better, behave better, achieve more. In [...]
The December 3rd “Through Your Own Lens” retreat was a festival of learning for everyone, including myself. Especially myself. A group of smart, accomplished women came together to find common ground, look inward, and document the day in photos (more to be published on this website soon). From what I can gather, we’re all still [...]
My life seems to have taken on a life of its own. And it’s actually kinda good. I don’t remember ever feeling this way before, which is also kinda good. I attribute it to a true release of attachment to outcome, which I’ve talked about before, and aspired to, but for the first time, I [...]
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