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...
Use discomfort to access Flow State
Recently I was listening to a podcast on which the host is known for being a bit ‘radical’ in her thinking. She pushes boundaries and questions things that most of us have accepted as normal and the way the world works — which is concerning in itself. I like her and I...
Distractions – rebuilding attention span
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...
To all those who’ve been considered the ‘Black Sheep’
I was considered the black sheep of my family, which always confounded me. I believe it was because I didn't follow suit, I pushed against convention and believed in systems that didn't exist. I would resist against and be defiant. I would go after the things I wanted...
If you can be anything, why not this?
I distinctly remember the stairs in my house as a teenager — it’s where my mom and I would fight. Where she would yell, and I would stand yelling back. One time I was trying to protect my sisters from her wild outrage. I had one upstairs and one downstairs and stayed...