Lately I’ve been listening to clients talk about their desire for routines and rituals. Morning routines, pre-sleep rituals, exercise routines, office habits and rituals. And I get a lot of questions about how exactly to begin these practices. How will I find time to integrate yet another thing into my…

This is your moment to award that gold star sticker. Pat yourself on the back. Tell yourself how great you are. Why would you do this, you ask? Why remind yourself that you’ve done something that’s helpful for you? Or that you’ve made a decision that will ultimately make your life better? Just because! And, the big secret reason is: the more we give ourselves affirmation and recognition that we are doing something we are supposed to be doing, the less we need external validation, meaning we don’t need other people to tell us how great of a job we are doing.

The art of letting go is a practice. Life gives us scenarios all the time which require us to let things go, to let them be as they are. Letting go, letting the situation be what it is, letting our need for control take a backseat — these are all…

“To simply be part of the energy of trying…and never giving up on it — this is the secret to life.” ~Barbara Abercrombie Ponder this: if you do not try something out, you will never know if that something will work for you. If you don’t try to think differently…

Grace used to be a thing I understood as something people on tv said before they ate meals. An ask from an outside source for a blessing, a way to not get sick from a prepared meal. I had heard of Grace being a name, so often, in fact, that…

When’s the last time you had a doubt about something? The last time something scared you? These feelings occur every day in my life. Today I doubted my ability to walk up a steep hill due to an achey lower back and sore legs from walking up the same hill…

Some of us, when we think of harming ourselves, immediately access the idea of physical harm. We think of injuries, purposeful or not, that we impose upon ourselves. But what about when we are mentally “hard” on ourselves? Is that not harmful to our whole selves as well? For example…

What is the present moment? Look at your fingers, wiggle them if you are able. Now look at your toes, and wiggle those if you are able to. There. You just experienced what it means to be present. To be in the moment. In that moment, were you thinking about the past or the future? Were you focused on anything but reading, your fingers, and your toes? For the next 30 seconds, practice this: inhale, and then exhale.

There’s no better place to begin than where you are. Many of us tend to focus on how to prepare to start something down the line, but why not just start where we are today, right now, this minute? In this moment, I want to prepare for a book I will eventually write. Immediately my attention jumps to learning about how to publish, what I will write about, getting an agent, maybe? But what if, instead of doing all of that research in this moment, I instead just start writing?