Jill's Monthly Updates

Welcome as we continue the second of our four-part conversation on your path to freedom . . .  In the last post, we talked about one of the most important truths I know:   There is nothing wrong...

Good Morning, Friend.   You've been on my mind and in my heart.   Lately, I can't stop thinking about the quiet, often invisible ways we as women speak to ourselves.   The harsh inner dialogue.  ...

A few months ago, I took a job at a local boutique.   Because my coaching practice is often remote — and my office is on my property — I realized I was craving more real, live human, “peopley”...

If you’re a woman of a certain age (ahem… middle or even later-aged), you might remember the poem, When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple. It’s been dancing through my mind lately, gently...

 Happy Spring, Friend.  Do you know this gal … She does everything “right.”She shows up. She gives. She supports. She holds it all together.For her kids, her partner, her work, her family, her...

  Sometimes — especially lately — I feel maxed out. As if my pain threshold simply cannot bear one more thing.The news.The state of our world.The suffering so many are carrying. It weighs...

These past few weeks have felt especially heavy. If you’re anything like me, you may be sensing both a personal and collective weight around the state of our world and our country.   What I’m...

You may or may not know this about me, but I dream of being French. I buy books in French and lovingly, painstakingly try to decipher the language. I play French music playlists when I’m home alone....

I'm just coming off a particularly lovely and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday.  It's not always that way but for a series of unfortunate (or as it turns out, fortunate!) events, there were only 4 of...

Halloween was the other night and while my kiddos are long past their trick-or-treating days, I can’t help but relish the joy that the day still brings. Perhaps I find even more joy in it now...