Increasing intuition can be a life saver. Life had to use every trick in the book to get me to balance my analytic tendencies. As a young woman who struggled with OCD, my over-thinking and too-much-analysis lead me to a complete nervous breakdown in Keep Reading
Surrender, White-Water Rapids Style
The art of surrender. Awhile ago my husband and I took an incredible all-day river rafting trip through the Rio Grande Gorge in Taos, New Mexico. It was so incredible, I'll never forget it. Six hours of beautiful seclusion within the towering arms Keep Reading
Taking the Blame, Freeing the Shame
Shame vs. Healthy Guilt Dr. Brene' Brown, the world's guru on shame, writes that shame and empathy are on the same scale. On one end we have shame, the feeling that when we mess up we are a horrible, awful, unlovable person who can't do anything Keep Reading
5 Things About Me You Might Find Freaky (Magical).
Putting it all out there. Periodically I am called to lay it on the line, divulge the freaky (magical) contents of my closets. It feels cathartic and it's my way of calibrating where I'm holding myself back in my life. Sometimes if feels as though I Keep Reading
Flourishing
From surviving to thriving. I read an article on the field of Positive Psychology this week and in a paragraph I found the word, "happiology". What a delightful word (haha). The foundation of Positive Psychology is the understanding that positive Keep Reading
Ten Questions to Personal Power
The tragedy of Self-suppresion. Highly Sensitive People are conditioned to keep things clean--who wants to own the messes of life--that we learn to hand out our personal power to the lowest bidder. We avoid asking the difficult questions, speaking Keep Reading
Visualize the Possibility
A word about possibility. One of the most exciting aspects of watching my coaching business expand is the fine-tuning that the expansion requires of me. Starting a private practice requires patience, faith, perseverance, and hard work. Sometimes Keep Reading
You’re The Only Ingredient You Need
Making room for something new requires a 'cleaning house' of the psyche and the spirit. To manifest what we DO want, requires an authentic survey of what is no longer working in our lives. What have we outgrown? Which patterns, uncomfortable and Keep Reading
You’ve got to be yourself.
“I believe in Tolerance. We are all beautifully unique in this world. Our differences should be more than tolerated--they should be celebrated. Our lifestyle choices, our spirituality, those we love, the work we do, the language we speak, the Keep Reading
The Eye of the Storm
A word about productivity. A few months ago I was sitting at my computer and *pop*, suddenly I was staring at a big black circle in my field of vision accompanied by trippy flashes of neon lights and a fun-house case of vertigo I couldn’t shake. What Keep Reading