The Separation of Powers: Feeling + Feeding
Malinda Ballesteros’s I Heart Candy We have all been there. Waiting in the grocery store check-out line when a young child sees a candy bar with shiny wrapping and in the blink of a reflex, reaches out...
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Adele Portrait Pema Chödrön. Brene Brown. Geneen Roth. Anne Lamott. Jenn Louden. Elizabeth Lesser. Michelle Obama. Adele. Oprah. Eve Ensler. Anita Roberts. What do all of these women have in common...
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Summer Sisters I spent my junior year of college suffering from anorexia. I spent my senior year full steam ahead in my recovery. One of the most helpful parts of my recovery was reading. I borrowed...
View ArticleThe List: Illusions & Truth
The Idea Henry David Thoreau once said “The question is not what you look at, but what you see. ” Pema Chodron writes “We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs – or we don’t. Either we...
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Spiral This is a short story about a long journey. This is a story about the spiral climb around the mountain of life. Have you ever found your way through a bramble of life challenges? Have you ever...
View ArticleIn Praise of Zoloft
This is a guest post I wrote for In Good Company in November of 2011. Shy When I run into people I haven’t seen in a while they often remark that while I am still myself, I’m so much more relaxed and...
View ArticleWhy I Coach
As you may know, I’m a student of Wayne Muller. His book, Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in our Busy Lives was a total game-changer for me. In fact, I kept my own non-traditional sabbath...
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Sunrise Sunset This past February I introduced the online course: Ease Hunting: Six Weeks of Discovering Every Exhale. This powerful journey included lessons, live calls, an ease scavenger hunt,...
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An excerpt of The Creation of Adam Imagine there’s a knock at your door right now. You go and answer it. It’s your mother. How do you react? Not how should you react, but how would you really react?...
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Peter Schroath. Trees, Tall Pine III “…and your very flesh shall be a great poem…” — Walt Whitman Growing up just outside Washington, DC resulted in my childhood having it’s fair share of visits to...
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