Four years ago I had a radical idea: I would start writing my musings and thoughts in a weekly column. I planned to share my process and curiosities, and maybe someone would find it useful or interesting. I had no formal writing training and was terrified of being...
Our desire to be liked can be linked with not living for ourselves. It is a symptom of choosing to live based on the judgements of others instead of living our own authentic lives. I have learned that those who learn to make choices for themselves, and find the...
Last week I wrote about resilience, which could be one of the key factors in creating a happy life. With resilience, we learn how to lift ourselves up and see opportunities instead of seeing only failure, pain or struggle. I feel like there’s a desperation for...
The word ‘resilience’ feels poetic to me. There’s art form to resilience, a brilliance that shines when someone has had a life full of experiences that rub away their naivety and youth and leaves them a refined human. This isn’t someone who is better than others,...
When I first moved to my mountain town, I found that the winters were difficult. The darkness felt heavy but the snow-covered mountains brought me an enormous amount of enjoyment. It was a paradox for me, feeling both good and bad. During those days I learned to dig...
I had been sure I was doing exactly what I wanted to be doing in life, including the type of work and where I was living. During this period of rest and reset on the planet, so many people are checking in with what they want and making small to drastic changes. What...
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...
As we’re likely well acquainted with the word gratitude, let’s unpack this widely used word. Gratitude if often used to express how appreciative we are for situations, people, or events in our life. It’s an expression of ‘thanks’ for the boons of our life. However,...
Something is fractured in our social system. Stay with me, here: I’m not a pessimist, I’m an optimist, but I feel we’ve lost our way as a society. Despite the positive progress happening in the world, if we’re not able to look at where we’re broken, we can’t possibly...
Does it seem a bit arrogant for me to claim I know the one thing that will bring more calm to your life? I think back to my days of waking up and going from zero to sixty in a matter of moments: getting breakfast made, making lunches, scrambling to get out the door on...