Choose Your Life Monday is an invitation to name what pattern you will lovingly notice this week and to do so in community. Of course, you can do it any day you want- you don’t have to start on Monday. Join in when and whenever suits you. Sheesh, what a week. I went back to Santa Barbara for the first time since Chris and I split up. Back to the place [...]

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Hey, I love gratitude as much as the next self-help writer…. Only… I didn’t used to. I used to not get the whole gratitude rap.  Trying to be grateful always felt strained to me, forced and pious. Set my teeth on edge. As in I should be grateful. Cue the angels. (Have I mentioned I’m [...]

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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 [...]

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