I have gained some weight and I am not happy about it. I could blame 2020 and no one would fault me. Yet, even if the isolation and low-level anxiety of the pandemic contributed to my overeating, the fact is...

I’m on the phone with a friend as she was driving away from Starbucks. She was trying to convince me to order her new favorite latte. (Chai tea latte with oat milk and 3 pumps brown sugar syrup in case...

I’m reading a great book called Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing by Olga Mecking. Niks, in Dutch, means nothing. And the verb, niksen, means doing nothing, specifically without a goal or purpose in mind. To do nothing...

I was talking with a young woman who had recently been laid off. She was unhappy. I listened to her talk and could feel both her fear and her blame: It will take me so long to find a new...

I was listening to a recent call and the speaker said that your brain responds to the command 5 4 3 2 1 GO! She had heard about this from Mel Robbins – author of the book The 5 Second Rule. Which...

I am in the process of decluttering. One of the hardest things, so far, is decluttering my book collection. I LOVE to read. I LOVE books. I LOVE story. A great story – whether in books, a great TV show, a documentary, a...

There was this commercial when I was a kid from a product called Calgon and their tag line was “Calgon, take me away”. A woman was sitting in a bubble bath and I figure letting go of her daily tensions,...

It is March. The name of the month itself implies movement. In Rejuvenation: A 4-week Mini-Adventure, we talk about each season having its own rhythm.  Details HERE. During winter we naturally begin to slow down. We do less. We dream more. We make...

When I was in grade school, we had a summer reading club. After summer, in the first few weeks of the school year,  we would create a poster of a favorite book we read, and it would hang in the...

I was recently working with a coaching client who said she was at a crossroads in her career. She wants to shift her current tech career but is not sure in which direction. Should she move to the management track?...