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Tending to your peace in the face of uncertainty “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” -Mahatma Ghandi Lately, I’ve been extra attentive to my body, my inner landscape, my energy, my spirit, my heart. The purpose of this attentiveness is not so […]

Walking Conversations There are infinite stories we can choose to listen to and converse with. Which do you choose? We tend to live life as “walking conversations” (Peter Crone). What we tell ourselves, share with others, and reinforce about our life informs how we think, feel, act, and essentially the […]

Discomfort is change happening. The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t achieve, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. -Krishnamurti Here we are. A little less than a month to the end of the year. How […]

When loneliness is the doorway. Loneliness is the doorway to unspoken and as yet unspecified desire. -David Whyte Honestly, I kinda thought I had mastered my emotion of loneliness. I thought I could distract myself from it, think beyond it, reason and act and strive through it. Yeah, a protection […]

We are meaning makers “All meaning is self-created.” -Virginia Satir We are meaning makers. I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently… from as simple as the meaning I ascribe to my morning coffee (ah, the sweet ritual) to the meaning I place on “success” in my business (a process […]

This might just be the reason you aren’t over it yet… “After a while, the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.” ― Anne Lamott have a feeling you’ve experienced this thought before… I should be over this already! I cannot believe […]

Unveiling subconscious lessons of urgency Blessed be the longing that brought you here And quickens your soul with wonder. May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe. May you have the wisdom to enter generously into […]

Families that wire together, fire together… Navigating identities rooted in the past… Families that wire together fire together. Hi Friends, I started this email last week to you all as a personal reflection of my own process preparing for a gathering with family… and it did turn out to be […]

“What have I done?” There’s been so much of this coming up in my client sessions lately, that I had to speak to it as the week starts. Perhaps awareness of this pattern will support you in some way. When we face the edge of our negative habits, even meeting […]

The glimmer in the eye… “We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it […]

When you feel stuck in “sabotage”… Ever caught yourself saying something to effect of… “I keep sabotaging myself.” “I can’t get outside my cycles of self-sabotage.” “My subconscious is sabotaging all the changes I want.” I get it. But let’s face it…. It’s not sabotage. It’s protection. While I completely […]

If you want the evidence, you’ll find it. If you want evidence, you will find it… You’ve done the work, you’re feeling more curious about your life, you’re allowing yourself to see the stories you’re so ready to let go of… so what’s next? Re-write your script. As a writer […]

Unapologetically YOU. Unquestionably Worthy Inherently. That is you, worthy. Always. Always. Always. ​ On the most intrinsic level… this all seems so basic, right? How could we possibly imagine showing up any other way than our true essence? So… How is it we get to a point in which we […]

Dead ends are new beginnings I hope you know that a thousand failures are the building blocks of your becoming. I hope you are not dissuaded by dead ends… I hope you know that it is the courage to keep beginning that ultimately gets us all to where we are […]

But… who am I if I’m not “good”? You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. -Mary Oliver, “Wild […]

Reclaim your superpower. As a kid, who was your favorite superhero/heroine? I was obsessed with Wonder Woman. She was just, kickass. I would fly through the yard, imagining I was actually flying and run as though I had super-human speed. I felt unstoppable as I saved the world. And let’s […]

Hypnotherapy… an awakened pathway to healing. Healing… There are, clearly, infinite pathways to healing… What has served you? As one with a history of depression and anxiety, I’ve practiced a number of modalities and activities that allowed me more empowered space to heal. I am grateful for the practice of […]

1 Step Forward 2 Steps Back? 1 step forward 2 steps back… It might feel that way… you’re making progress toward your goal, you’re feeling the momentum build, and then something derails you. You might not even know what that something is, but you feel yourself slipping back and it’s […]

Learn to meet your shadows. “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it… But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never […]