I got to talk with my good friend Mr. Michael Neill this morning on his radio show about fear and how you can find comfort and calm no matter what.  You can listen in - and if you did already listened and want to know more about the upcoming Comfort Summit we talked about, join […]

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First let me say I AM LOVING how the new tradition of Choose Your Life Mondays is going. I really really find myself thinking about how often I rush into things and even though I still did some rushing this week, I was aware!
That is progress, dear sweetie Jen, that is progress. Big pat on heart.

And […]

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This week I spent a lot of time crying because I missed my daughter. I missed her because she was with her dad but what I was really mourning was her baby self.
We know grief comes in waves and this week has been a tsunami: grieving my baby now fourteen and a full on teenager, grieving […]

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I did.
Make a big fat hairy goal, that is.
A BFHG, man, a BFHG.
It involves asking very famous big people to do something with me.
That meant inviting them.
Gulp.
So right now, I’m typing on a keyboard covered with Swiss cheese oil (you know, the kind that oozes out of a rice tortilla when you’ve nuked the cheese too long) and checking my […]

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I finished reading Acedia and Me by Kathleen Norris last night and I want to shout  (I guess blogging is my shouting), “This book could change your life!”
Acedia - what the hell is that? I’d never heard of it before.  Kathleen defines it as:
…as the spiritual aspect of sloth. The word literally means not-caring, or being unable […]

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I took two naps yesterday.
I could barely form a thought, let alone write a blog post.
I felt little down. And I felt guilty and weird about feeling let down. But then in the afternoon, coaching a writing client, we were talking about how fighting yourself never works and I thought, “That’s what I’ve been doing all day. […]

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I said I would share a story today about the power of moving the body… what was I thinking?
Today is how-can-anyone-not-be-voting day?
Today is how can anybody-get-any-work-done-day?
Today is I-get-why-democracy-is-worth-dying-for-day.
Today is history-making.
Today is hope-making.
Today may be the day in which we collectively begin to turn away from fear-mongering and begin to have a relationship with our real fears. Which will, hopefully, allow us […]

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When I get scared, I stop moving, which makes me feel much less comfortable and much more afraid.
This is the first part of an essay originally published in Body+Soul a few years back.  It popped into my mind during yoga because I was so proud of myself for being on my mat again, for just five […]

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Halloween is my favorite holiday (besides my birthday). Particularly this year because I need, we need, a ritual way to blow off a little steam! To let loose some of our fearful energies. To shimmy out some anger and dread and what-is-going-to-happen-on-Tuesday tension.
Halloween is your chance to creep up on the very idea of fear itself […]

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When I took my nine month sabbatical that ended in June, I was certain, convinced and over the moon sure I would emerge re-energized, shining with ideas, filled to the brim with compelling content that would flow out of me like so much molten brilliance. That didn’t happen (for a bunch of reasons) which was […]

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