Whether it’s their interests, bedtime routines, or shoe sizes, it seems like as soon as I’ve settled into “we are reading Inside Out every night” my kids are changing again, and I’m left holding the book. As much effort as I put into letting go, allowing them to be and develop and grow into these new humans on a daily basis, as much as I attempt to practice the “your children are not your children” idea, breathing into the now and welcoming the new phases, the truth is…I also feel grief. If you do too, you’re not doing it wrong.
Trust the Next Step: How Each Part of Our Path is Connected
When I started writing online five years ago, I talked a lot about life purpose and finding the right career. My focus as a coach was helping people to find work that lit them up, and then helping them be brave enough to think they deserved to do it. But I’ve changed a lot in these past five years. I don’t really talk about these things anymore because I am no longer sure how I feel about them. I have been busy unpacking how capitalism, patriarchy, and the conditioning of hustle culture infiltrated how I thought about work, meaning, and “life purpose.” It’s a lot of unlearning. It’s been humbling. But there’s one thing that’s clear as I look in the rearview mirror…
How Changing a Toxic Relationship to Social Media Changes Your Real Life Too
The average adult will spend 3-6 years of their life on social media. Before you start running for a screen free commune, what if I told you that same 3-6 years could make you feel more peaceful, truthful, connected, and serve your highest growth as a human? Here’s how to heal your relationship to social media and change your life in the process.
Get Off the Wrong Life Path: How to Make a Change, Live with Purpose, and Find Your Truth
I know there’s a moment in your past when you KNEW you were walking the wrong way (in a job, relationship, creative endeavor, etc) but you just kept going because you’d already put so much work in.
You told yourself it was commitment (“I’m just working hard/staying the path/not giving up”) but you felt tired all the time, didn’t like yourself, and began resenting everything and everybody in this particular life arena.
And then eventually, things exploded anyway.
Guess what? You can learn from this. Today.
Why Affirmations Don't Work but a Thought Ladder Does
Why was I so afraid of making mistakes?
It all comes down to the same reason any of us ever do anything, whether it was in high school or now: because of a story I believed.
A “story” is a piece of cultural conditioning, a construct we’ve bought into, or simply a thought that we’ve decided is true about ourselves and life.
The Sacred: How Time Travelling Can Show Us What We Already Have to Be Grateful For
It can be a terrifying to realize that holding onto the things we love is like grasping water that just keeps running through our hands – fruitless. They will change, and eventually all of it will go.
But this doesn’t have to strike us with fear of what we’ll lose – instead it can be this insanely profound gift.
Because how holy and sacred is all this stuff we actually have today, right?