How Kindness Becomes Part of Your Daily Life
“Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.” -Dalai Lama What makes you happier, improves your mood, and supports your physical and mental health? Kindness. Kindness helps expand...
3 Simple Ways to Connect When You Feel Lonely or Isolated
I’ve been busy — projects, classes, big family milestones and events. And I’ve been dealing with my mother’s health issues and my grief of losing my Dad. And with all that, I realized I was isolating myself, withdrawing from the people around me - just when I needed...
Awe Is Essential — 3 Easy Ways to Add More Awe to Your Life
What is awe? Awe is a reaction to something that shifts our perception of the world. It could be a soaring building, a vast star-studded sky, or a deep idea. And while the word vast and huge might be connected to awe, we can also find awe in tiny moments or...
Make New Friends and Keep the Old — Maintaining Friendships
Friends are an important part of our lives. While we can make new friends throughout our life, nurturing and tending to our current and long term friends is also rewarding and so important. That doesn’t mean hard work, but maintaining friendships doesn't just happen...
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...