On being anxious (and how to remove cat hairs)

The summer before 6th grade, my parents moved me and my four brothers across the country--away from my best friends Ann, Karen and Laura--to an alternative school on a yoga commune in the Sierra Nevada mountains of CA (this was part…

Are you happy with the “status quo?”

  We just got back from a family vacation on the WA Olympic Peninsula (stunning, one of our favorite trips). This nature immersion was just what we needed. Now, I'm looking forward to a new school year and a fresh start for our…

A special invitation from Renee (and Jen)

(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

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?

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

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

"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)?

"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

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?

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!)

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!

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…
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