Jan 3Experimentation Instead of Have Tos — Outsmarting Your Inner AuthoritarianOne of my mentors shared this quote today from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” I love this quote because it expresses something I’ve learned first hand over the last year…Productivity4 min readProductivity4 min read
Dec 13, 2022How to find your own unique balance in lifeAir. Water. Earth. Fire. I know, it sounds woo woo, but give me a second. They’re just energy and we’re all made up of all of them. Air = mind, movement, lightness, wind Water = heart, wet, emotion, rivers, feelings Earth = body, solid, stable, structure, ground Fire = spirit…Spirituality3 min readSpirituality3 min read
Dec 6, 2022Why you may feel ungrounded and chaotic right nowP.S. We’ll get a break from it soon… — The winter solstice is coming up in just a few weeks. December 21, 2022. This December hasn’t felt very much like December to me, so I didn’t realize the winter solstice was so near until a few days ago. It came in lightly, like a breath of fresh air —…Astrology3 min readAstrology3 min read
Nov 29, 2022Presence Starvation: How to Feel Seen and Heard (and Heal the World)Presence starvation is a real thing. Have you heard of this before? I didn’t come up with this term, but it’s one I’ve used for a long time. In our culture of ever-increasing phone time, social media apps, notifications, pings, dings, and speed, true and deep presence feels like a…Presence4 min readPresence4 min read
Nov 9, 2022Rightness, Wrongness, and Brokenness“Even a broken clock is right twice a day” I heard this line in a song earlier this morning and it’s stayed in my head all day. Not in the annoying stuck in my head kind of way, but simply present. …Personal Growth4 min readPersonal Growth4 min read
Nov 2, 2022My cat is dyingMy 16 year old cat is dying. It’s hard to write that sentence because it’s true. And it hurts. Death is something we are trained in our society to avoid. To make go away. To put off. To not look at. To just acknowledge openly that death is here and…Death3 min readDeath3 min read
Oct 14, 2022Welcoming Prayer for Heaviness, Fear, and FeelingsMy heart is heavy today. Heavy. Heavy. Heavy. He-vy. What is this word? Heavy. You say a word enough times and it becomes a strange mix of mouth sounds and movements. H-e-a-v-y. For me, today’s quality of heavy is soft, unknown, a storm brewing just out of reach, a monster…Feelings5 min readFeelings5 min read
Sep 21, 2022Pleasure, Resistance, and AchievementMy current feels on joy and pleasure — It’s honestly no coincidence that, even though I was supposed to be writing for the last 8 minutes in my lovely coworking session, I was procrasti-researching a new charger I need to buy. Talk about basic resistance. Every other coworking session I’ve just jumped right in. And now, here I…Pleasure3 min readPleasure3 min read
Aug 31, 2022The Shoulds and Rules of LifeMusings on success and our inner beliefs — What to write, what to write. That should be a question mark… It turns out I have a lot of shoulds in my life. Shoulds are one of those taboo words we aren’t supposed to use. Or shall I say we shouldn’t use. Ironic, huh? We shouldn’t use should. But…Psychology4 min readPsychology4 min read
