Loving Kindness
Women's EmpowermentEvery Monday morning, I send out a quick work/life effectiveness tip to our seven-person team. Most of us work virtually and we’re spread out across three states. So, I do many things to keep us all feeling connected. These amazing women…
Thank You Nonnie!
Self-CareI’m officially declaring September as Gratitude Month in honor of Nonnie, my maternal grandmother Mabel Rebecca Harrison, who passed in 2005 and would have been 99 on September 1st. She was an amazingly strong woman, mother, teacher, business…
Find Your Center
Self-Care When you're feeling unfocused and find yourself flitting from one thing to the next, what do you do to get grounded?
This is the question I have been asking a lot of clients, friends, organizations—and myself-- over the last month. We’re…
Balance from the Inside-Out September has always been like the start of the New Year for me. I have launched businesses, started new jobs, rolled out new business models, embarked on back-to-back speaking sprints and unveiled new creative…
Balance from the Inside-Out
Work Life Balance September has always been like the start of the New Year for me.
I have launched businesses, started new jobs, rolled out new business models, embarked on back-to-back speaking sprints and unveiled new creative endeavors around this time…
Choices
Life BalanceI often hear my coaching clients say they don’t have a choice. What they really mean is they’re not ready to make a hard choice—downsizing to a more affordable home, leaving a financially comfortable job, ending an unhealthy relationship,…
Running From Myself
MindfulnessWhat if you embarked on a long, arduous journey that led you the top of a mountain where a wise, sage sat waiting to deliver to you the one piece of knowledge that would allow you to fulfill all of your wildest dreams? And, after you received…
Flow
Life Balance“I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You need to make time for your genius to flow. We get our creative bursts, those idea torrents that take our business and personal…
The Unknown
Self-CareI recently returned from a week-long Shakti Sadhana Women’s Yoga Retreat (dancing with amazing powerful women like Shiva Rea and Wah) at Kripalu, a beautiful retreat center in the Berkshires in upstate MA. The experience was transformative…
Play
Life BalanceOne of my favorite songs when I was a kid was The Marvelous Toy by Peter, Paul and Mary (the album Peter, Paul and Mommy was constanly playing in our house when I was growing up in the early seventies). I loved the feeling of wonder and joy…
Thank You Jonah
Self-CareMy husband and I are taking a seven-week parenting class right now. Most of us weren’t “born” to know how to consciously parent and many of us didn’t have healthy models for how to be in relationship, so getting support on how to do…