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Pause, Reflect, and Vision: Your Path to a New Year
Take this opportunity to look back on 2024. The simple act of reflecting reveals patterns, lessons, and surprises we might otherwise miss.


When Doing Less Means Gaining More: How Slowing Down Creates Space for Connection
What I needed that week was to embrace “easy living” to reconnect with the art of doing very little in in good company.


3 Practices to Build Self-Trust, Achieve Great Outcomes, and Boost Credibility
I just returned from three nights camping on the coast in our little RV with the kids but this trip almost didn’t happen.


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


Something’s Gotta Change. It’s Me. How to Embrace Presence and Own Your Choices
What I love about coaching, the very thing that many new to the process don’t anticipate before the first session, is the empowering...


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...


Trust Yourself: Your Story Is Your Power. Tell Your Inner Critic to Take a Hike!
Who am I to write a memoir? I asked myself this question before I decided to go full steam ahead with a writing project that felt huge in...


Seasonal Revival: A Personal Narrative About Heeding the Call of Spring
April heralds the season for yard work. It’s also the season for cleaning out the closets and repainting the scuffed walls, but as the...


Wellbeing in Winter: Embracing Time for Doing Less, Being More, and Reflecting on Living Well
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the blessings of winter. With shorter days and cooler temperatures, this is the season slowing...


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...


4 Steps to Turn Your Mess Into Your Message
“We heal the world when we heal ourselves, and hope shines brightest when it illuminates the dark.” – Sasha Graham It was Sunday and the...


6 Tips to Creating Value-Based Goals that Honor Who You Are And Guide You to Your Highest Vision
Whether you are a planner or a pantser (writing terms for someone who plans their stories before writing and one who writes without a...


Juneteeth Brings Reflections on Privilege, Self-Awareness, and Agency
It is #Juneteenth today. On this occasion when we collectively remember the heinousness of slavery in America and continue to work toward...


The Alchemy of Assumptions: How to Convert Limiting Assumptions to Empowering Assumptions with Truth
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” ― Isaac Asimov You...


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...


Stillness Like a Hummingbird
Tiny engines of endless energy, hummingbirds are synonymous with movement. To catch a glimpse of one in motion is as close to the feeling...
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