I know in business they tell you to keep up a certain façade that you’ve got all the answers and everything is smooth sailing. You’ve got to look like a competent expert, right? But I don’t like facades. I like real. I like authentic, even though it’s messy and imperfect. And from what I’ve learned […]

Wow! Next week is the one year anniversary of this blog! Woo hoo! As I reflect back on the last year, I do feel a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment at achieving this benchmark, but my inner critic didn’t let the celebration last too long. The mental dialogue went quickly to all the things I […]

Sometimes, I have a really hard time trusting people. I don’t even realize I’m keeping my guard up. It’s just an unconscious habit most of the time. And I know I am far from the only one to have this characteristic. In a lot of ways, we’re taught to fear hurt; be suspicious of (or […]

I am not a fan of using cliches. Unfortunately, my line of work can be filled with them. One you hear a lot this time of year as we orient to new beginnings is FOLLOW YOUR PASSION. But what does that really mean? What’s really behind the motivational, cheerleader hype of a phrase like that? […]

Happy New Year! New year. New beginnings. Rather than give you another cliche blog post on making new year’s resolutions that most of us struggle to keep anyway, I thought I’d go to the heart of the matter. Creativity. No matter what we want to have happen for us in the new year, it’s going […]

Supporting women’s causes are definitely in vogue right now. That’s a good thing ultimately, but when something becomes popular, it’s also easy for us to lose interest. We go numb with media overload. Even the most passionate of us can get de-sensitized like this. When I get jaded, which can happen a lot at year-end […]

Ah, the holidays. We don’t often talk about the shadow side of holidays in public, but a lot of us can actually feel terribly lonely this time of year. Research studies have actually shown that at least half of Americans experience significant loneliness during the holiday season! Whoa. Kind of ironic since this is the […]

So often in our world, we highlight the differences between us, placing our individualism above all else. And this is a great time of year to take a step back from that and remember that in fact we are far more alike than we are different. It’s no coincidence that so many religions and spiritual […]

Control tendencies are hard to let go of. Once a control freak, always a control freak! Even if we aren’t always aware of it, most of us wreak havoc in our lives and personal affairs by trying to over-control them. We have this crazy idea that somehow we know what’s best for us, all the […]

I think when I was younger, I thought true confidence looked like always having everything figured out; always knowing the right way to be and act; and I would just strut through life with grace and swagger. I would be, in a word, perfect! Sounds good, but now I know better. True confidence is a […]