Category: Emotional Health

  • Shadow Work and The Painful Separation of Belonging

    We’ve all been there – those days where it feels like nothing could possibly ever make how you feel better. From the moment I woke up, I’ve been set on being grumpy, claiming victimhood and noticing everything that ever could and should go wrong. For some reason, it feels safer that way. These are the days…

  • 3 Reasons NOT to Play By the Rules

    Go directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. And so you sit, imprisoned until you roll doubles, have done your time, or, if you’re lucky, can use your get-out-of-jail-free card that you’ve been saving for a moment such as this exact one. That’s how it works, that’s the  RULES.–Unless you play…

  • How To Keep From Chasing Stillness

    Have you ever just wanted to be still? Relax. Unwind. Be enough. Living on a hamster wheel has become the norm…We eat fast, think on our feet, move quickly through our day and demand that other people enact superhero powers to meet our needs and deadlines. Yet much of this pursuit is in service to the idea…

  • 3 Ways to Find Your Heart’s Desire

    Do you know what you want? If not, you’re not alone.– Most women who come to me have no idea what it is they really want. They simply know that where they are now is out of alignment with their heart’s desire. Frequently, they’re at a turning point, realizing that time is slipping away from them and that they want…

  • How To Get Lasting Change Using Neuro-Lingusitic Programming (NLP)

    Many of my clients have never heard of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) when they schedule their first session. They tell me they’re stuck and want to feel more alive, fulfilled, healthy or in love. They’ve tried coaching or therapy with minimal success — or with results that only last as long as the motivation and support…

  • Musings on goal setting, motivation and creating what you would like…

    Goal setting is so 1990. If you are still setting goals, I’m going to say a prayer that you are being forced by an ominous and outdated boss to write down empty promises in a self evaluation document and that shortly thereafter you find your way to the nearest escape exit from the building and…

  • Your Inherited Suffering

    Ever feel like no matter what you do, something in your life is just not getting better? Like no matter how healthy you eat, you just can’t heal your body…or lose weight…or get pregnant…or even feel lovingly connected to your partner or parents? Perhaps it’s because of something that happened in your mother’s, great-grandfather’s or even great-aunt Betsy’s lifetime is influencing your well-being. Here’s how: Just…

  • The Problem With Having It All

    “Having it all” is one of those marketing catch-phrases that nearly everyone says they want. Yet the best understanding we have of what it means is a mild sense of what it would be like if everything we desired was miraculously easy and available to us and lined up in accordance to our version of…

  • Why Letting Go of Your Dream Is a Good Thing

    I dug this out of the vault of things I wrote when I started my business and was struggling to make it work exactly as I had envisioned. Reading through the old notes, I noticed that what I went through with my business is similar to how a lot of people feel about love. Timelines…