Tag Archive for: work-life balance speaker
4 Ways to Feel Better Fast
Newsletter, Self-CareLast week I received some alarming news about a close friend. Afterwards, I felt anxious, jumpy and unsettled. My brain was so flooded with stress hormones, I felt paralyzed and was struggling to remember any of my self-care tools!
Stress…
(Video) How Are You Caring for Your Heart?
emotional self-care, Newsletter“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ― Rumi
Whew, last week was an intense one for me. I was navigating…
8 Tips for Re-Balancing & Finding Your Center
Mindfulness, NewsletterRecently I led a virtual self-care workshop for parents in the communications field. Most are navigating working from home, a changing educational landscape and parenting in uncertain times. Erin, one of the attendees, shared with me through…
What Does Self-Care Mean to You? (Video)
Newsletter, Self-CareLast week I spoke at a women’s life balance event and afterwards I visited with an attendee who asked, “I know self-care is important, but I have no idea what I need and I’m not even sure where to start!” Can you relate?
Nature: the Ultimate Anti-Depressant (+ 9 Ideas to Get You Outside)
Newsletter, Self-Care, Stress ManagementLast week I spoke at a women’s life balance event and afterwards I visited with an attendee who asked, “I know self-care is important, but I have no idea what I need and I’m not even sure where to start!” Can you relate?
Are You Choosing Love or Fear? (Video)
Mindfulness, Newsletter“Love After Love" by Derek Walcott
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the…
How Do You Slow Down (when everything is sped up)?
Mindfulness“Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing…
Sisterhood: How Do You Affirm Women?
Women's EmpowermentI once spoke at a girls empowerment conference to a group of 300 ten to thirteen-year-olds. As I was waiting to go on stage, I overheard a small group of four young girls talking about their day. One of them was on fire after learning about…
(Video) Can You Be With What Is?
Mindfulness, Newsletter
I sent my husband to the farmer's market last Saturday to get arugula, kale, spinach and lettuce. He came home with a hard-skinned, oblong Japanese squash.
Maybe this year is not going quite as you had planned? This past week I heard…
What Would Your Wise Self Say?
Newsletter, Self-Care, women's retreat
This past weekend I took Saturday off for a personal retreat. I sat in front of the fireplace at my friend's empty home surrounded by art supplies, my 2022 journals and my cozy sherpa blanket. I meditated, practiced yoga, drew, journaled,…
The Only 2023 New Year’s Resolution You’ll Need
Career Coaching, Newsletter
The last three years have been some of the happiest of my life. I’m living in a gorgeous rural area near the oldest mountain range in the world, I’ve chosen a more creative work path that is deeply aligned with my passions, I’m stretching…
(Video) Three Questions to Ask Before You Enter 2023
Career Coaching, Life Coaching, Newsletter
In the spring of 2011, on a warm, vibrant weekend in the Texas Hill Country, I took a personal retreat to sit with the question, "What is uniquely mine to do?" That Saturday while mediating in my cabin, I received an inspiration from my deceased…