Community & Relationship
Here’s Part 2 of my chat with Pullitzer prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman. (Read Part 1 here). TARA: Let’s talk more about social change because you’ve both written about it and taken time to study it. I’m curious about what your understanding is of how social change happens and how that is informing how you have [...]
Well, she is one of the most widely read US women columnists in the United States. She has the ability to sum up a whole movement, a whole era, or a complex reality with a single, perfect line. Recently I had the honor of sitting down with remarkable woman Ellen Goodman. You can listen to [...]
Turn Your Palm I invited you in to the mystery with an open hand. I invited you in to the lap of love. I walked you down a golden path and touched your eyelids when you slept. Then I turned away and showed you a darker moon. You live in the land of [...]
Today I’m so happy to be blogging in partnership with two fabulous women, Lianne Raymond and Heather Plett. We’re all writing on the theme of “location dependence” and connection to place. Lianne and Heather are both remarkable writers and leaders. Check out their posts here: Feels Like Home to Me and A Declaration of Dependance. [...]
There comes a time with every coaching client when our work comes down to letting go of what other people will think. We all carry other people’s voices around in our heads, often making it impossible for us to hear our own. Lately, I’m seeing a deeper dimension to this, illuminated by psychologist [...]
“What country, friends, is this?” – Olivia in Shakepseare’s Twelfth Night A person is a person. A person is also a place. In our doing-focused culture, we tend to define ourselves by what we do when we are in motion: what we accomplish, what we cross off the list, where we go. [...]
I was thinking about people-pleasing the other day – why we do it and why it’s so hard to stop. (I think about people-pleasing often, since I struggle with it and am trying to people-please less.) The thought occurred to me that maybe people-pleasing is a kind of substitute, a kind of crutch that [...]
You never know what you are really writing about. On Monday, I wrote a post called “Just A Feeling: Dealing with Difficult Emotions.” I thought I was writing about the freedom that comes from knowing that a difficult feeling is “just a feeling” — temporary, often arbitrary, not necessarily a call to do anything. [...]
Hi folks, A couple weeks ago I had an icky, embarrassing experience. I decided to mine it for all the wisdom and interesting writing it could be worth. And that’s what I’ve done. It turned out to reveal all kinds of gems. I hope you’ll come read it – it’s [...]
Today I’m very pleased to have my first ever interview at Wise Living! Jen Smith is a life coach and personal development blogger, and she’s based in England. I encounter so many blogs and writers online these days, but Jen’s energy really stood out for me. I could feel her kindness and integrity [...]
