Everybody needs boundaries. Most of us recognize that boundaries are essential to healthy relationships and a balanced life. So then why can setting boundaries be so difficult? One of the biggest barriers to boundary setting is guilt, especially for women. It’s normal...
If I am to be honest, these last 6 weeks have seen my heart broken in a million different ways. I’ve felt such a volume of heaviness personally, familially, globally and even physically condensed into these last weeks that it’s hard to believe that it’s only...
If you know me, you know that I am a crier, an especially sappy one at that. It’s as if the second even the slightest something moves me, the water in my eyes springs a sudden leak. So, it came as no surprise to anyone in my family that while watching a football game...
You may or may not know this about me, but (and stay with me here) the foundation of my passion, work and life is inspired by a gang of sea turtles. I know, I really just said that – I pattern my world off the rhythm of a gargantuan, awkward, ancient creature...
If you have been anywhere near me in the last couple of weeks, you have heard me talk/freak out/obsess over my latest read. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD has me completely and totally in awe. If you...
I write to you from the magic of Bainbridge Island. It’s early still and the scent of the salt air envelops me – so very different from the dry pine scents of my home. I hear coos of what sound like the very same mourning doves that soothe me back home and...
