What Kind of Emotional Wake Do You Leave?
One of the most impactful things I’ve heard in the last several years is Jill Bolte Taylor talking about the stroke that left her without language for many months. She [...]
Can You Find Some Wiggle Room?
I’m reminded again this week that life is short. Someone else in my orbit passed away suddenly. We weren’t in one another’s close circles but have mutually admired one another [...]
The Time for Repair is Now
I recently heard that a former one-time client of mine passed away, someone who had come to my office with a relative for mediation. Halfway into our time together, it [...]
Hearing Yourself Again
Hello friends! I have a proposal for you: as 2023 begins, can you slip away for a little bit? Can you find a quiet place and a quiet few hours [...]
Fun in 2023
Maybe I’m just paying more attention this year but is anyone else sick of New Year’s resolutions talk?! NPR says to set SMART goals--strategic, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. They [...]
Winter Inspiration
I joke that my least-favorite situation is feeling uninspired. “Inspire” from the Latin “in” (into) + “spirae” (breath) has two meanings: To fill someone with the urge or ability to [...]
Ambivalence is a Drag
In Priya Parker’s excellent newsletter this week, she talks about the “Art of Guesting” during the holidays, and how to be in discernment about what we say yes and no [...]
Celebrating Truthsgiving
Hello, friends. I’ve got a longer reflection this week, and I hope you’ll hang in there for it. For the past several years, I have grown increasingly uncomfortable celebrating Thanksgiving. [...]
Stressless Holidays are a Fantasy
My dad and brother-in-law work with unhoused people, and they tell me those precious souls don’t like the holidays. This season highlights all the ways their lives are not the [...]
Unsubscribes and Other Gifts of Rejection
I want people to love me. More than that, I want them to like me. I want them to think I’m funny, smart, helpful, wise, kind, intuitive, quick-witted. I want [...]