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 [...]
Training Isn’t the Answer
It has been a really sad week. There’s nothing I’m going to say here that hasn’t been said, and I’m under no delusion that the national conversation needs my voice. [...]
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 [...]
Favorite Books of 2022
Favorite Books of 2022 I finally realized something last year—I don’t sit still unless I am reading. And maybe that’s one of the primary functions it has served in my [...]
Serving and Savoring
“Each morning I wake up torn between the desire to serve the world and to savor it. This makes it difficult to plan the day.”- EB White Doesn’t this quote [...]
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 [...]