
What’s your intention for this summer?
Women's Retreats, Work Life Balance What is your intention for summer 2014? Do you plan to slow down and enjoy unscheduled downtime with your family? Is there a work or creative project you want to complete by the end of August? Do you want to reconnect with those you love…

Who am I, really?
Women's Retreats, Work Life Balance "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you really are." Joseph Campbell This past week I was visiting with a friend, a wise and trusted OB-GYN. She shared that she is experiencing some sadness and grief. After many decades, she is…

Do you embrace life’s mysteries?
Life & Career Coaching, Work Life Balance “Life is not a thing to be managed, it’s a mystery to be lived.” Anonymous In our Austin career coaching offices where our senior coaches see clients, sits a red heart-shaped box filled with some of our favorite inspirational and…

5 days unplugged=whole new perspective
Self-Care, Work Life Balance Last week I took a five day writing sabbatical (read more). I was holed up at home and ended up getting a cold, but the week was illuminating nonetheless. Being unplugged for five days helped me see with absolute clarity what was working--and…

Why I’m taking a sabbatical
Mindfulness, Work Life Balance When I was 30 years old I chose to leave a high-stress, perk-filled corporate job and take a month off from the working world to re-design my career path. I had just taken a life-changing trip to Europe and was sitting in my cube working…

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude
Women's Retreats, Work Life Balance Growing up, our overachiever family placed a high value on competency. Often that translated into a critical mindset towards self and others, where we frequently saw the bad before the good.
This way of being, like all patterns, became…

Do what makes you happy
Work Life Balance A few years ago I attended a writing workshop and towards the end of the weekend, the facilitator asked us to go around the circle and share, "What makes you happy." The smell of fresh cut grass, snuggling in bed with loved ones, sitting…

Go with the flow in 2014
Work Life Balance I haven’t written out annual goals or a marketing plan for my business in two years. On purpose. Yet, I own two successful international coaching/consulting firms, supervise a professional team of eight, travel, am continually generating…

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…

Slowing Down On the Inside
Work Life BalanceLast week I attended a parenting workshop at my son’s elementary school on peace-based education. The seminar offered kids and parents models for conflict resolution and ideas on how to more mindfully navigate our relationships. The entire…

Rest
Work Life Balance As I'm juggling summer camp logistics for my son, final editing on my new book, retreat prep/facilitation, managing business details and interviewing/training staff I find myself spiking with envy when I see my friends summer vacation photos. Last…

Reflecting
Work Life Balance It's Thursday morning, December 29th. I'm sitting in front of our fireplace in my floral pajamas with a mug of chamomile tea and an inspirational Osho Zen card deck. I've arranged for my son to attend an all-day winter nature camp so I can…