A few weeks ago I commemorated the four-year anniversary of the day I packed my trusty Nissan Altima with as many belongings as I could fit, and drove away from the comfortable life I had known for the last three decades. As I wrote to my e-letter readers, it only took about 50 miles on…… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Introspection
How I Became A Pragmatic Mystic
I’ve made it to Day 17 of my personal “Blog every weekday for a month” challenge! Getting a little up close and personal with today’s post. I joke with friends that I’ve taken a leap down the ‘woo-woo’ rabbit hole. I mean it in the most serious and sincere of ways. “Woo-woo” gets a bad rap…… Continue Reading
The Highly Sensitive Extrovert
Blog #15 in my Blog-each-weekday for a month commitment. I see a lot of articles and books these days geared to the HSP – highly sensitive person. Usually it’s assumed that these sensitive individuals are natural introverts. Yet—I’ve had to wonder about that. As a clear ENFJ on the Meyers Briggs scale, I know that I’m…… Continue Reading
Courage Comes In Many Colors
Blog #13 of my month long blog-every-weekday commitment. Do you think of yourself as fearless? Courageous? Bold? Well, I never did either. I saw myself as rather timid and shy, backing down in the face of conflict, and certainly never deliberately stepping into dangerous situations. I wanted to feel fearless … as long as that didn’t…… Continue Reading
Every Day Precious
Here’s #11 in my ‘Blog a Day’ commitment. I’m writing a new post each weekday for a month. I took my first sweet sip of tea. I’d just completed my morning ritual of stretching, meditation, Angel Cards, and journaling. As I savored my breakfast, the message arrived. My sister reporting in on a horrific tragedy that had…… Continue Reading
Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
For Day 10 of the blog-every-weekday commitment I’m stepping out of my comfort zone. Way, way out of my comfort zone. I’m posting a poem—an actual poem—raw and unpolished. Even though LIzzie, my lizard brain, and Binnie, my bitchy inner critic, are both absolutely positive that anyone who comes across this thing will cringe at my pitiful attempt.…… Continue Reading
When Disaster Strikes! How to Handle Life’s Mini Disasters.
I arrived home from a fun outing the other night only to encounter … Disaster! I spent most of the last 36 hours in a state of total freak out – and then, to compound matters, beating myself up about it. Because, after all, I’m a coach – shouldn’t I be able to take such…… Continue Reading
When You Can’t Afford What You Want – There Is Hope!
Do you have a list of things and experiences that you are longing to have – but they just hang out on that list because you can’t afford them? Or maybe it’s calories that you think you ‘can’t afford.’ As in, “I can’t afford to eat a piece of wedding cake – I pigged out…… Continue Reading
When Intuition Trumps Logic
Have you ever made a decision that turned out to be a big mistake – but you kept going with that path because by golly you made the decision and you’re sticking to it? I’ve done that way too often in my life. But you know what? The times they are a’changin’! I recently took…… Continue Reading
Eagle’s Message: Beyond Letting Go
A few weeks ago I visited the Portland Zoo with Genevive, my niece (by marriage) and her two children. They’d arrived in town early that morning, ready for adventure. Which for Lutian, the 5-year-old, meant the elephants at the Zoo. I’m not a fan of animals in captivity so I usually avoid zoos, but I…… Continue Reading