I’m borrowing this heading from Seth Godin and one of his recent blog posts, he delivered the message below, but I’m taking some liberties with my interpretation of his heading and expanding on his thoughts. He wrote: “My building had an elevator problem. The...
Every thought is either pulling us towards or away from love. The thoughts we think when we wake in the morning directly impact our day. The thoughts we think about our partners determine what kind of relationship we’re going to have. If we minimize our partners in...
How do businesses impact your life (small or large)? And why is it important to sift through the information streaming at you, through you, with discernment? I’ve worked in business for 25 years, and for the last 13 years I’ve owned my own business. Through this...
I’ve been a 1000 different women, all of whom have had to die in order for me to be me. You know it in your body, the parts of yourself that have to die in order to move forward, the parts of yourself that need death to make way for birth. Holding on to old parts,...
Lately I’ve been contemplating my dissatisfactions, judgements, critiques, and expectations of others. I’ve watched myself get swept up in the storms of my thoughts, convinced that my ideas are superior and my judgements are justified. Watching my arrogance and...
When my daughter is agitated and frustrated, she can be impatient and snappy with me. I’ve had to learn not to shame her for that or make her ‘show me respect.’ Her frustration is an emotion that I want her to feel, I want her to feel the complex emotionality of being...
Not all that long ago our lives weren’t created over videos, we didn’t have a soundtrack playing, and we weren’t performing reality to make it look like a movie. We understood that movies were fictional tales or biographies told in story and filmed with sound and...
It’s taken a long time for me to recognize that the challenging things that have happened (and continue to happen) in my life are designed for my benefit. For most of my life I could not see them as such, and only in this past decade have I been able to remember this...
‘The version of yourself that you had to be in order to survive through something difficult, is not the version you can now be to move forward’. Healing is a complex process of time, acceptance, releasing, forgiveness (most often of ourselves), tending to your needs,...
Apparently Gen Z has 2.7 seconds of attention span, way shorter than previous generations, a comparable is in 2004 attentions spans were 2.5 minutes. When my daughter was born, I began to lose my ability to focus. The lack of sleep made me unable to concentrate on...