Are you connected to your rhythms?
Work Life Balance
For the last two and a half weeks, I've felt pretty worthless at work. Things seemed to take longer than they should, my team members and I navigated a lot of technical snags, meetings kept getting rescheduled, communication with our key…
Messy isn’t a bad thing
Life Balance
I’m the oldest of seven children, five boys and two girls. Growing up with four hyper-active brothers (the boy/girl twins arrived on the scene when I was 14), our home was constant chaos. Slingshots firing, mad games of indoor tag, impromptu…
10 ways to become comfortable with chaos
Self-Care
Last week I gathered with a small group of friends in my home. They shared they've been feeling a sense of sadness—almost a mourning—that the world as we know it is gone. It feels as if we’re headed into a brave, new frontier and…
Are you embracing the feminine?
Life Balance
As a life balance coach/author, I speak, teach, write and facilitate experiences to support people in coming into greater balance on all levels, including: being and doing, thinking and feeling, giving and receiving, working and playing…
5 reasons I take retreats
Self-Care
“Are you listening to your life--what is it trying to tell you?” Renee Trudeau
Stephen Cope, MSW, author and director of Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living says retreats don’t change our lives as much as they change…
When in doubt, do nothing
Life Balance
When I was in junior high and high school and my mom was driving me crazy, one of the ways we could find connection was through shopping for clothes. I remember many times standing with her in a boutique or big box department store contemplating…
Is your self-care superficial?
Self-Care
True replenishment comes from the inside-out.
The following is an edited excerpt from my good friend Lisa Grace Byrne’s new book, Replenish: Experience Radiant Calm and True Vitality in Your Everyday Life. After Lisa was inspired…
Do less, experience more
Self-Care
There are three kinds of people in the world: those whose self-worth rests entirely on “doing”; those who can’t relax and play until they’ve “done their work” (the good old Puritan work ethic); and those who can relax and play…
Do you ever abandon yourself?
Self-Care
My primary work involves speaking to men and women at companies/organizations about work/life effectiveness and how to release stress, but a few times a year I get to lead retreats for women. Last spring while facilitating one of these self-care…
Meditation saves me … from myself
Mindfulness
I woke up this morning exhausted. Triggered. And I could feel my negative thoughts lining up like little toy soldiers ready to go to battle.
After a weekend of push-back from my rapidly maturing adolescent, I felt like I'd just left an…
On being compassionate (with yourself)
Self-Care
The quote I chose for my mom's funeral service program when she passed in 2000, was "The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action." Mother Teresa
My mom's ability to feel empathy, acceptance and deep compassion for those…
How self-care transformed my life
Self-Care
In 2002, when my son was six months old, I felt a strong but persistent tap on my shoulder to gather women and together explore the age-old question, ”How do we nurture our children … and stay true to our own needs and desires?” So,…