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Is your pace sustainable? Release the need for speed

Last week I found myself sitting in my car in a downtown parking garage feeling exhausted. All day I had been juggling Austin traffic, conference calls, schedule changes and work requests from my team. Now, I couldn't find a parking spot, I…

Slowing down to the speed of summer

Mindfulness

One of my touchstones for gauging how fast--or slow--I'm living, is noticing if I have a vase of fresh herbs and flowers on my desk. When I'm living the life I desire, I create the time to meander in my garden and pick colorful and unusual…

Permission granted to slow down

Mindfulness

Ever since my son and I got back from our month off the grid in Western North Carolina--read What the Mountains Taught Me--I've been thinking about how speeded up we have all become: plowing through inhumane to-do lists, agreeing to crazy…

Slowing Down On the Inside

Work Life Balance

Last 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…

Staying Slow When Everything's Fast

Life Balance

Last Friday evening I became aware I was allowing someone I was working with to have too much say over how I was feeling. I was giving this relationship--a relatively new one--too much weight, too much power. And I didn't like how this was…

Slow Down You Move Too Fast!

Life Balance

This weekend I found myself frequently humming, "Slow down, you move too fast ..." Lately, it feels like life is moving too fast. A month feels like a week--a week, like a day. Saturday night we really felt the effects…

Aware ... ness

Self-Care

It's 7:00 a.m. I’m sitting at my computer replying to some timely emails before I finish helping my son find his shoes and water bottle and get out the door for school. He walks into my upstairs office and sits down in the office chair…

Doing vs. Being

Work Life Balance

This is the time of year that many of us feel more like human doings than human beings. Yesterday afternoon, my husband and son went out to work on costumes for one of my husband’s upcoming Samba School gigs. I had been looking forward…

Right Here, Right Now

Self-Care

Following a rich, connective one-day self-renewal retreat I facilitated on Friday, I attended and volunteered at GenAustin’s statewide We Are Girls Conference at the Ann Richards School for Girls all day Saturday. It was an emotionally intense…

Digesting

Mindfulness

di•ges•tion (di jes′c̸hən, dī-); noun; the absorption of ideas. I recently listened to a radio interview with acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She…

What's Your Speed Limit This Summer?

Self-Care

Thanks for all the great dialogue from my last post on Relationships. I really enjoyed your insights and comments on relationships on our Live Inside Out community. If you'd like some great relationship tips, sign up to get my monthly Life…

Unplugged

Self-Care

This past weekend I led a Self-Renewal Retreat at The Crossings Spa and Resort for an amazing group of 32 women from around the U.S. It is deeply fulfilling work, but it also takes a lot of energy to “hold the space” for people as they move…

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Is your pace sustainable? Release the need for speed

Slowing down to the speed of summer

Permission granted to slow down

Slowing Down On the Inside

Staying Slow When Everything's Fast

Slow Down You Move Too Fast!

Aware ... ness

Doing vs. Being

Right Here, Right Now

Digesting

What's Your Speed Limit This Summer?

Unplugged

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