
6 tips for taking a personal retreat
Featured, Life Balance, Women's Retreats, Work Life BalanceThis month I have been managing so many moving pieces -- working on our new web site, training new team members, booking new speaking engagements and workshops, vetting new partnerships--that I have found it hard just to hear myself think.

Do less … so you can experience more
Work Life BalanceI'm noticing that many mornings--even after a good night's sleep--I'm waking up feeling exhausted. My take is that with all the chaos, uncertainty and unrest we're facing both near and far -- many of us are not getting the deep, nourishing rest…

Do you force or allow things to happen?
Life Balance, Work Life Balance“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” ―…

Is your pace sustainable?
Work Life Balance Recently while at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health leading a New Way of Being Women's Self-Renewal Retreat I met a woman who was the dean at a large medical school. She said they just added a class on Work-Life Balance & Resiliency…

Can you go with the flow?
Work Life Balance “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”…

Can you go with the flow?
Work Life Balance “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”…

Is your pace sustainable?
Work Life Balance This past weekend at my Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health New Way of Being Women's Self-Renewal Retreat I met a woman who was the dean at a large medical school. She said they just added a class on Self-Care & Resiliency to their…

5 questions to help you gain clarity & focus
Work Life Balance How do you react when someone asks, "How balanced is your life?" Maybe you feel defensive, frustrated, hopeless, angry or perhaps you roll your eyes and check out completely. The word balance (which can sound exasperating and unrealistic)…

Are your yin & yang out of balance?
Work Life Balance As a communications director, throughout my twenties and most of my thirties, I pushed myself hard. After securing media coverage for a client on the TODAY Show, I barely stopped to breathe before I was pitching their story to National…

Simplifying from the inside-out
Life Balance, Work Life Balance I remember one 4th of July weekend when my husband and I gathered a small group of friends for a “Freedom Fest." No fireworks, hot dogs, or Tchaikovsky. Instead, we had a potluck and asked each guest to bring one thing that “I want to…

Do you live intentionally, or haphazardly?
Life Balance, Work Life Balance "A strong intention can make 'two oceans wide' be the size of a blanket or 'seven hundred years' the time it takes to walk to someone you love." Rumi Do you ever wonder how all the day-to-day choices you make, big and small, affect your…

What the mountains taught me
Mindfulness, Work Life Balance The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.― Johann Wolfgang…