How Do You Want to Celebrate?
I’m celebrating a birthday this month, it’s not one of those “big” ones, but I still love to celebrate. My kids tease me that I call July “My Birthday Month.” They’re not wrong. I have multiple rituals around the month of my birth. Most are low key. Many involve...
Are You Filling Yourself Up — or Are You Just Filling Your Days Up?
My schedule has been so busy for the past few months — ending a semester, packing up a house, wedding festivities, getting ready to drive cross country. My days are full. Am I? Are you filling yourself up? It’s a good question. It’s so easy to fill our days — or to...
Who Am I Now — How to Rediscover Yourself
Who am I now? We all come to places in our life where we’ve lost a sense of who we are. Maybe you lost your job, had a health issue, you’re retiring, your kids are leaving home, or as I have this year, experienced the death of somebody close. Something big has...
What’s Next? How to Embrace Life Transitions with Courage and Curiosity
What’s next? There’s so much possibility in that question, and for many of us, some anxiety. It can be uncomfortable to be in a transition space. Whether your pivot point looks like what to do after college graduation or when your kids leave home or when you want to...
Play? Yes! Here’s How to Be More Playful
I love throwing a ball for my dog Murphy. He shows so much joy chasing it and bringing it back. Even when I don’t have the ball, he races up and down the beach, circling and sniffing. There is unbounded joy in his actions. Dogs know a lot about play, so do kids. That...
Friendship — Cultivating Trust, Belonging and Vulnerability
Friends are an important part of our lives. They help us feel that we belong and ward off loneliness. Friendship is a give and take. It takes trust and vulnerability to gain intimacy. We all need different things from our relationships and have different things to...
How to Create Your Compass and Find More Joy in the New Year
The New Year can be a fresh start. It can also be a lot of pressure to declutter and organize, lose weight, build your business, get a new job, set audacious goals and improve yourself. We all know what happens to most resolutions. Even goals and plans can feel more...
The Perfect Gift for Anyone — Write a Meaningful Letter
November is a month that makes me think of Gratitude and Connection. And also Family, as I often get to see extended family at this time of year. All wonderful things. And having said that, I also struggle in November with the overwhelm of the holiday busyness. I feel...
3 Faces of Gratitude — And How Gratitude Can Boost Your Mental Health
“Be grateful for what you have” … Have you ever had somebody say that to you when you mentioned a challenge you were going through? It’s really off-putting to have somebody dismiss what feels hard for you. It’s important to have a place for sadness, anger, all those...
How Focusing on Belonging and Meaning Help You Thrive
We all have a need to feel understood, to give and receive affection, and find our people. In other words, we need to feel we belong. In her book The Power of Meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith says that two conditions need to be satisfied for us to have a sense of...