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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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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Three Fear Basics
Fear Basic Number One:
I’ve become hyper-aware of how fear has become, in the last three years my near constant companion.
I use the word companion intentionally because it’s about having a relationship with fear. As in how do you regard and behave toward each other? It’s not about being friends — but rather about acknowledging that fear, anxiety, dread, […]

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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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