Give yourself a break
Self-Care, Women's Retreats Growing up I was often inspired by my parent's generosity towards those less fortunate. They would write checks to causes, donate household items, handout food to the homeless, sponsor foster kids to attend community events and encourage…
9 ways to own your power
Life & Career Coaching, Self-Care One of our career coaching clients, Alicia, had a rough week. After she received a disconcerting email from a new business partner—it became very clear they were speaking different languages and not on the same page. She paused and…
7 reasons to practice self-care
Self-Care This past week I connected with several medical professionals and we discussed the concept of self-care. Like many in healthcare, they see self-care as something you “should do” for your physical health (exercise, eat well, get enough…
Do you embrace life’s mysteries?
Life & Career Coaching, Work Life Balance “Life is not a thing to be managed, it’s a mystery to be lived.” Anonymous In our Austin career coaching offices where our senior coaches see clients, sits a red heart-shaped box filled with some of our favorite inspirational and…
The life I desire (version 2.0)
Self-Care, Women's Empowerment One morning when my son was in preschool, my cup was feeling really full and in a moment of supreme clarity, I sat down and wrote the following (this is from the beginning of Ch. 2 on self-care in my book Nurturing the Soul of Your Family:…
5 days unplugged=whole new perspective
Self-Care, Work Life Balance Last week I took a five day writing sabbatical (read more). I was holed up at home and ended up getting a cold, but the week was illuminating nonetheless. Being unplugged for five days helped me see with absolute clarity what was working--and…
Why I’m taking a sabbatical
Mindfulness, Work Life Balance When I was 30 years old I chose to leave a high-stress, perk-filled corporate job and take a month off from the working world to re-design my career path. I had just taken a life-changing trip to Europe and was sitting in my cube working…
Cultivating an attitude of gratitude
Women's Retreats, Work Life Balance Growing up, our overachiever family placed a high value on competency. Often that translated into a critical mindset towards self and others, where we frequently saw the bad before the good.
This way of being, like all patterns, became…
Do what makes you happy
Work Life Balance A few years ago I attended a writing workshop and towards the end of the weekend, the facilitator asked us to go around the circle and share, "What makes you happy." The smell of fresh cut grass, snuggling in bed with loved ones, sitting…
How do you nourish your heart?
Self-Care, Women's Retreats As a life balance teacher, I’m intrigued by how we can come into more harmony as we navigate work/life, family, relationships, caregiver roles and modern life. Part of enhancing balance is learning to attune to our emotional self-care…
Choosing … to let go
Self-Care I remember a time my husband asked me to coach him as he prepared for an upcoming performance review. This is something I used to get paid big bucks to do as a sought after career strategist, so I helped him create a document outlining his…
5 things I learned about myself in 2013
Mindfulness There's something magical about this window of time as one year ends and another is about to begin. It's a pregnant pause: ripe with possibility and potential. To me, it feels especially so this year. Yesterday I challenged our 6th…