I’ve left many things because I wasn’t happy: relationships, friendships, houses, cities, and jobs. I recall in those experiences saying that I just wasn’t happy. I wasn’t always clear on why I was feeling down, but I would feel softer once I gained distance, and I...
The Illusion of Certainty: Why we Cling to Control
I’ve had a blissful day, I experienced so much productivity at work, I had meetings that felt fluid and connected and I taught a yoga class that was immensely nourishing for myself. I felt richly connected to my heart by the end of the day. But when I walked into my...
The Future of Consciousness: Beyond Existential Crisis
There’s a slowing down that’s been moving through me steadily for the last couple of years, and it’s pulling at my life at an increasing rate. The paradox of how this is unfolding isn’t lost on me; the increased speed at which I’m being called to slow down is ironic....
Remembering Life Before Screens: A Call to Mindfulness
I feel a lot of energy from people, places, and things, and it provokes emotions that feel like too much. At times I want to stop noticing so many feelings and numb out. In those moments, I open Instagram and scroll until the numbing is overwhelming, and I realize...
The Assignment – Should You Accept
For many, if not all, having purpose sustains emotional stability. Losing purpose is often a catalyst for feeling lost or depressed and lacking vision in life. For those who’ve felt a lack of purpose, you know intimately the hollowness that it can bring to your...
Small Acts, Big Impact: Fostering Kindness in a Divisive World
Is anyone else noticing the shifts happening around us? Is anyone feeling that there’s something altering the entire ecosystem? The ethos of all the cultures on this planet are shifting, old models are no longer serving this new world and things are changing from...
Does ‘business’ have social responsibility?
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...
Transformation – cliché, obsession, or essential?
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,...
Isn’t it funny?
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...
If no one would ever know, would you do it?
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...