Lately, I've been swimming in overwhelm. Occasionally, we all go there. Particularly when we're navigating too many transitions at once (moving/relocating, career/job changes, health challenges, shifts in our financial state, etc.) and our brain…

Last week, I was visiting with a dear friend who just started an intense graduate program. She also works full-time and is juggling family demands. Her life feels uber-full, and it's often hard for her to make it to a yoga class, to the hiking…

“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.” Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance This week, I'm getting real about anxiety and anchoring back to…

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” ― Pablo Neruda, poet/author I fell in love with Western North Carolina in summer 2014 when I was in Asheville doing a book signing. I have traveled…