The two tools most everyone has with them at all times—but forget to use. Whenever I get stuck and don’t know what to do, my hands start to itch and twitch…like they’re hungry. My hands want to paint rocks or knit or organize a closet. They want to tear into…

The importance of holding onto our whole selves in a divided world — Would you recognize yourself if you overheard people describing you in detail? I didn’t. And it was mortifying for so many reasons: How could I know myself really well, but not recognize myself at all? How could I be so visible to others and yet be invisible to myself? How…

A simple reframe that moved me from judgement to action — and gratitude — Sometimes I forget to breathe. Which is embarrassing because I know better. I know I don’t have to remember to breathe—my body will that for me. But still…I feel like I forget a lot. You know what I mean, right? There are those moments I realize my breath is shallow…

The absurdity of not talking about a universal truth we all share is linked to our reluctance to talk about the power of women leading our world. — What if talking about vaginas could create a seismic shift in our conversation about women and leadership? What would happen in our world if we all started talking about how amazing vaginas are? I think about these things-and not simply because I have one.

An alternative take on women being told to not take things so personally — What do we even call this place we find ourselves? We used to say these were “interesting times” and used words like wild, unprecedented, and surprising. Then it moved to “disruptive” and we started to use words like rising, woke and allies. Now I hear us talk about “profoundly disturbing”…

The thing women bring that we desperately need more of in our world — We have so many tried-and-true, time-tested ways of doing things. We have all these beliefs and ways of moving through life that we are so wedded to, we’ve mistakenly taken them as absolute gospel. In fact, we often refer to them as the “right way” or even “the way.” As…