Honestly, who else is OVER setting New Year’s ‘resolutions’? Has anyone ever felt completely lackluster about intention-setting? Maybe feeling like you ‘have to’ because that’s one of the main topics of this time of year? It seems like many folks are keen to ask if...
We often seek advice and support from those around us. It’s healthy to connect and share our stories with. We want to feel heard and listened to, it is important to share with others as we walk our path on earth. Perhaps you lean into others for their wisdom and...
Being gentle with yourself is an easy concept to understand but a challenging practice to put in place. For most of us, our minds can be an unfriendly territory. We have a tendency to be incredibly critical, judgmental and comparative. It is easy to fall into the...
Our brain is designed to secrete thoughts, to endlessly process and ruminate on the stories of our lives. However, we tend to give all our authority over to our brain. We believe the endless stream of thoughts that plow through our minds, seemingly without choice. But...
In a recent a discussion with a friend, I articulated that I feel most people in my life do not allow me to be vulnerable. When I tuck into an uncomfortable personal experience, I am often met with resistance and judgment. It looks like judgment of my choices, the...
Friendships fill us up. Our connection to other humans sustains our well-being. Friendship is knowing you have someone to lean on when you need it. It’s the feeling that you can connect with someone in the dark as well as the joyful times of life. We thrive on...
This is an ongoing topic for me. When I ask if you have ever felt unseen, I don’t mean in the popularization of social media and the amount of ‘likes’ or postings we create to display our lives. I mean in the most intimate ways and with the people closest to us. Being...
Why do we struggle? Because if it was easy, what would we learn in our lifetime? I don’t intend to simplify or discount the enormity of some of the challenges we will face in our lifetimes, but I fundamentally believe that if we don’t use this life as an opportunity...
We teach our kids tell the truth. We ask them to be honest with us and we teach them that when they are not truthful, there are consequences. So why is it that as we grow older it can be hard to speak our truth? In learning to speak my truth I have had to unpack...
Here I go, on my soapbox: for goodness' sake, can we all just stop being so darn good? You know, when someone asks you, "How are you?" and without missing a beat your automatic response is "good"? You know there is no quality to it. Even as the word slips out of your...