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Unlock Your Potential with the Enneagram: Discovery Your Type to Embrace All of Your Brilliance
The Enneagram is a profound system of understanding human behavior that describes nine distinct personality types.


Daring to claim your authentic voice as a leader and creative
Last fall I filled the back of my car with a roller bag and three extra totes full of books, shoes, jackets (rain and puffy), chargers,...


Stop Risking Your Life with “Yes!”: 3 Steps to Creating Boundaries that Protect Your Best Life Yet
Has this happened to you? You offer an emphatic and impulsive “Yes!” to someone else’s wild hair idea to do something that was likely NOT...


Multitasking Is Making You Crazy. Focus on Feeling Good One Task at a Time.
___________________ Is it me, or does December feel like the busiest month of the year? This is the month that seems to be the sieve...


How to Leverage the Wisdom of Your Body to Make Clear and Meaningful Decisions
I've been making several gut choices lately, and so far, they are working out pretty well. You know the sort, right? It's the urge that seems to run through your whole body when confronted with a choice of action that just feels right. What are we embracing in our Yes? An urge led me to Portland this weekend and it was one of the sweetest three days I have spent in a long time. I bought tickets to the Portland Book Festival hosted by Literary Arts, a non-profit organization o


Letting Go
It has been six months since I have written anything new in my memoir. For 18 months I drove myself to complete multiple drafts of a...


A Summer of Self: Claiming Time to Reconnect with YOU in this Busy Season
Summertime is arriving next week (officially) with Summer Solstice on June 21, but I have already happily sipped into the flow of the...


Why We Ditched the Dairy Milk and Made Our Own to Live More Aligned to Our Values Daily
Warning: This tiny change may ripple out to produce huge results in your lifestyle and what you believe is possible in all areas of your...


Attuning to the Body’s Wisdom to Make Timely, Aligned Decisions
How do we learn to listen to our bodies? Not all choices are created equal. Some are much harder than others. Some are low stakes, and...


Stop Risking Your Life with “Yes!”: 3 Steps to Creating Boundaries that Protect Your Best Life Yet
Has this happened to you? You offer an emphatic and impulsive “Yes!” to someone else’s wild hair idea to do something that was likely NOT...


Living Aligned to Me: How Consciously Choosing Set Me Free
Long before my career shifted toward business and leadership coaching, I enjoyed many years as a High School English Teacher. I was one...


Ask Yourself This Question First: What Do I Stand For?
As a coach and leadership consultant, I deeply appreciate the power of knowing and making choices that align to my values. It's not...
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