A special invitation from Renee (and Jen)
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(A guest post from my dear friend Jen Lemen: visionary, big heart, humanitarian, artist and award-winning, e-learning pioneer. Jen’s dreams have carried her across continents and back to her artist studio in Maryland where she generates…
How I plan to simplify my life
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I don't think I'm cut out for modern living. Lately, things just seem like they're moving too fast: too many options, too much juggling, too many demands, too many (perceived) have to's and too much traffic (I just found out Austin is…
Technology: are you master or slave?
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Is technology bringing your family closer together or driving you farther apart? As I look at how I can spend even less time online this fall, I'm hearing I'm not the only one examining this topic.
Every family I know navigates the technology…
3 types of stress
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On a scale of 1-10, most days, how stressed are you? If you asked your partner (and kids) the same question, what would their number be?
My son and I just returned from visiting my brother and his family in Celo, North Carolina, a small…
How to have the summer you desire
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"It's summertime and the living is easy ..." Or maybe it's not.
Last weekend I led a retreat at Kripalu Yoga & Wellness Center for 65 women. During our Saturday break, I attended a dance class and the instructor opened with these…
Are you living your life (or someone else’s)?
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"It is 1976, and my dad has left his booming medical practice in San Antonio. We have abandoned our comfortable, sprawling ranch-style home on two acres and have moved into a twelve-hundred-square-foot home with a wood-burning stove on fifty…
8 ways to enjoy a stress-free vacation
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Recently our family was invited to visit friends for the weekend at their cabin on the river a couple hour’s drive from our house.
Two days before we were going to leave, my husband and I were frantically creating lists of all the…
What does self-care mean to you?
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Last week I connected with some powerful national presenters and we discussed the concept of self-care. Like many, they see self-care as something you "should do" for your physical health (exercise, eat well, get enough sleep), but that's…
10 ways to nurture your soul (and a new video!)
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Over the years, our career coaching clients have shared that one of the biggest gifts they receive from working with our team is being challenged to imagine what is possible in their lives and careers: to shed the shackles of their expectations,…
In transition? Join the crowd!
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My son is starting middle school in the fall, my good friend’s youngest child leaves for college in August, my colleague’s husband just quit his job to join his wife’s firm, my 46 year-old childhood friend just learned he’s going…
My Mother’s Day gift to you (and me)
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For over a decade I coached thousands of men and women in career transition on how to create a strategic career plan, leverage their brilliance and come into greater alignment with their life purpose (I have since trained a wonderful team…
How I learned to mother myself
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There's been a lot of belly button gazing in our house this past week. My adolescent son told me on Friday, "I'm thinking a lot about my life right now," my introspective husband is taking a class where he's contemplating our relationship…