The Birth Quake: Humanity’s Great Shift and the Call to Co-Create Our Future
We are experiencing a “birth quake” on planet earth. Do you feel it? It is intense! We felt it coming. Here is an excerpt from my 2017 book Living From the Center Within: Co-Creating Who You Are Becoming. “So, what is shifting here and now? Are we giving birth to new life? There are dynamic […]
How Are You Loving Yourself Today?
What a time to be alive on the planet! For me, self-love and self-care have become even more essential. This is not about being selfish! It is about intentional self-love and self-care practices that support maintaining balance, resilience, and inner peace. For me, these long days of light are calling me to connect and anchor […]
Feeling Loved: Being Seen and Heard
In coaching, as in life, being a good listener is essential. When someone is seen and heard, they feel loved. Deep listening improves your relationships, empathy, understanding, and ability to creatively solve problems and conflicts. It is important to make time to reflect and listen to yourself as well. You can increase your self-awareness, self-compassion, […]
Leading In Chaos
In April, I had an amazing opportunity to facilitate 5 mini, 1-hour workshops during a 3-day professional development meeting for the leaders of a national organization. Each leader took a strength identifying assessment, and we took a dive into how each participant’s strengths enhanced their qualities of an impactful leader. We built skills in self-awareness, emotional, […]
Transitions Abound
How many transitions are you noticing in your inner and outer world? There has been an onslaught of them in mine recently. In my friends’ circle, there were 9 deaths in 3 weeks in October. My inner experience has been intense. Feeling grief and sadness alongside relief for the peace they are in and grateful […]
Real Life, Real Hard Conversations
One of the gifts of practicing coaching skills in my daily life is the ability to stay engaged when I enter a spontaneous highly triggering conversation. Sometimes, of course, I choose to walk away. Other times, it feels important to make the space to cultivate the relationship and remember everyone counts. This situation took all […]
Profound Self-Acceptance – Welcome to 2024!
I had an epiphany about my capacity to ‘be with what is’ recently. As you may recall from my October blog, Letting Go, Again, I am practicing surrender and equanimity. My narrative has been that to ‘succeed’ in living this way… I needed to NOT have big emotions, NOT have strong preferences, and NOT react. […]
Rhythm of Change
The September air has new smells as the crisp days of autumn begin to roll into Minnesota where I live. The leaves are turning, school is resuming, and harvesting gardens and fields are in full swing. I am experiencing the circular shift of time and seasons deep in my body. I can feel in my […]
What are you tending?
I have been outside tending to the flower beds and pots in the yard. The connection to nature that has been amplified this past year for me continues to provide balance and wonder. With my hands in the dirt, I have reflected on my commitments to intentional inner tending. Finding space to relax with no […]
Exploring Ego: How is it like my tongue?
I have encountered various points of view about the human ego, my least favorite is that it is ‘bad and wrong’. Some beliefs state the ego needs dissolving and needs to ‘die’ to be an ‘enlightened’ human being. After multiple conversations with clients about the optimal function and relationship of the ego in our multidimensional […]