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What I’ve learned in 21+ years of being a personal growth explorer
Three weeks ago I made a bold decision: to create a program based on my body of work, a "greatest hits" of what I've been teaching and living for 21+ years. You see, my publisher, New World Library, is just releasing my book, The Life Organizer, in paperback....
Celebrating the Solstice: A Few Thoughts on Being Outside Christmas
I love Christmas. I was raised celebrating Christmas. And when Lillian was tiny, I created a celebration around the Winter Solstice because I wanted to create an antidote to the Christmas I had grown up with. Our holiday was about how many presents my sister and I...
A 2013 Tribute to You
I see all the times you followed your desires, without guilt or second-guessing or demanding a particular outcome. Even if only for a few breaths. I see all the times you stopped hurrying, played in the field of creative joy, took a nap, flowered with self-kindness. I...
Savor & Serve November Love Lights
November has been a month of recognizing and inviting spaciousness. Case in point: I noticed that November in the Pacific NW always slows me down and I always seem to have a very full schedule. A light bulb moment came when I realized it isn't the change in the light...
Your Life Organizer Sanity Support Kit Awaits You!
I'm having the hardest time sitting still and my face hurts from my big ole' grin.Here's the scoop: in June my editor Georgia called to tell me New World Library is bringing out my last book, The Life Organizer in paperback - they love the book and want to give it a...
How do you know when something is too hard?
A wonderful coaching client asked me this question recently and I swear I squirmed with pleasure. "How do I know if I should stick with something when it feels really hard or should I change to something that feels better?" I love this question so much because I have...
Taos Writer’s Retreat Registraton
Dear Blog Only Readers, Just wanted you to know that registration for my Taos Writer's Retreat opens only to my email list tomorrow. It will not be announced here on the blog but only via email. To get that invite, you need to be on my list. Sign up here. I'm teaching...
Distraction or desiring? What you are choosing?
I just got off the phone with an amazing client, someone I admire so much, I have tried to hire her for my own business - only to have her say "Nope, I'm not available." Which made me so happy because, yes ma'am!, she is now putting her dream first. She has had an...
The Best Travel Advice Ever
I could tell you how to pack light, how to hit up Sephora for their little plastic doo-hickeys that you can use to carry your make-up and potions, that bringing toe-shoes instead of sneakers saves a ton of space, to be sure and pee every time you're near a bathroom...
How to Handle Your Inner Efficiency Expert
I have a part of my personality that loves to get things done. She's happiest when there is something clear and finite to do. She's great at packing, cleaning the garage, oh and filling our forms - yum! All those tidy little boxes. What she utterly bites at is...
Money: A Love Story
I'm delighted to be part of Kate Northrup's Money Love Stories project as part of the launch of her new book, Money: A Love Story. Money is a taboo topic and I've always wondered why? Why don't we talk about what things cost, how much we make, how we struggle to know...
Creative joy restores me like nothing else. Except getting married. 🙂
This Friday join the free Creative Joy mini-retreat - photography, yoga and writing- with Marianne Elliott and Tracey Clark. It's a Spreecast so you can see us! Plus there's a chance to win free tuition to our 4-day October retreat an hour north of Manhattan....
The Wedding + Pictures
I am floating. I am glowing. I am altered. Made new through love. Our union witnessed by our friends and family in Union, Washington. I am married. I wanted to capture in words the flower-infused sparkling love-weave bliss of the whole weekend but the alphabet...
Summer Reading + Watching
You would think with getting married this weekend (August 17th - gulp!) I would have no time for reading. Nope. Reading is how I deal with stress and stress has been in abundance - wedding planning yes but my mom is being lost to Alzheimer's, Lilly is struggling with...
Savor & Serve July Love Lights
July has been a sea soaked, raspberry studded, sunshine infused hoot around here. Bob and I are approaching our wedding day (August 17th!!) and July has been about the gratitude of preparing. By preparing, I mean buying blue mason jars and kazoos, choosing...
Gratitude
I am sitting under the pergola at the Mable Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico. I have sat here once a year for 11 or is it 12 years? I am not good at dates but I am good at gratitude. I am steeped in gratitude this week for the women gathered here, women wiling to...
This Is Not A Blog Post
This is not a blog post because who needs one when you have: The fine breeze rustling the trees like a wake-up fairy. The big leaf maple's leaves, giant green dinner plates, holding up the sky. A sky so blue, you will search for a new word for it, one you won't find...
It Isn’t About Permission
When you're changing some aspect of your business, your relationship, your health, floating a new idea or navigating your life in a more inner-directed way, it's totally normal to want to discuss that with people you trust. Even to seek a dollop of permission, a pat...
8 Ways to Cultivate A Relationship to Desire
Desire as a theme has threaded its way through my life forever for the simple reason it's one of my central life challenges - to know and cultivate what I want, without grasping and without denying. To declare "I want this" whether this is... a lamb chop, to build...
How to Avoid the Overwhelm Infection
Ever find yourself in a good groove by: Saying no Asking yourself often "What do I want?" Using the Satisfaction Finder. Knowing your Minimum Requirements for Self-Care (explained in the Life Organizer & in a free audio when you subscribe here) & generally...
You are Not for Sale
Do you sometimes feel that everything is for sale? That if something doesn't have a market value (including being able to be turned into a pithy blog post, Instagram photo or even a great story to tell your friends) or if it doesn't "fit" your personal brand, then it...
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