Living More Authentically
I love, and have always loved, reading poetry aloud. I thought I would try it here, so today I’m reading one of my recent poems, The Last Word. The audio is about two minutes. Enjoy a moment of slowing down with it in your day. If you are reading this post via email, [...]
This is a Q&A post. Well, really it is a S&R post (situation and response). I don’t like the term “question and answer” for anything related to the big matters of life because 1) there’s no expert on those matters and 2) there’s no one answer for those questions. What I share here feels more [...]
Today I wanted to share a post in “Q & A” format. Below is a note I received from a reader, Kim, along with my response. I’ve been in the same challenging spot that Kim was in when she wrote this, and I know many of you will be able to relate too. I gave [...]
The world tells us in a million ways – whether through the bodies on covers of women’s magazines, or in ranking us with grades in school – that we aren’t enough, that we don’t measure up, that we have to change and reform and tweak ourselves to be acceptable. Nothing could be further from [...]
There was a moment last Tuesday when I was watching the twitter stream about The Real Life: Poems for Wise Living, and the tears started rolling. I was reading tweets about the poems, and it was clear they were making an impact. Why the tears? Because that was a moment of homecoming, a [...]
Today I’m delighted to bring you an interview with Joanna Tebbs Young, an expert in journaling for personal well-being and growth. Joanna has been writing a personal journal for over 20 years and now teaches others how to find healing, creativity, and authenticity through journal writing. She’s a certified instructor through the Center of Journal [...]
In my work with coaching clients, I often ask: “What do you want?” What do you want – in this difficult situation? What do you want – in your work? What do you want – for your life? The question can be disorienting. There we are, railing about the annoying person [...]
Sometimes, at cocktail parties and wedding receptions and barbeques, when the “so, what do you do?” question comes from a stranger, I’ll simply say, “I’m a coach.” Then they say, “oh, like a…like a….sports coach?” Being someone who has played sports for a total of about five minutes in my lifetime, someone who [...]
Fabulous artwork by Mati Rose We need space for dreaming. Spacious space. Lengths of time. Dreams don’t fight for attention. They don’t yell over noise. Sometimes a dream will interrupt and assert itself, but mostly dreams speak when invited. Dreams speak when we ask: What do I want? What’s my [...]
I saw a lot of bad art this weekend. And I was moved to tears by it. I was crying from the moment I walked in to the San Francisco open studios exhibition, because what I found there, inside a nondescript warehouse, was twenty or so brightly lit artists spaces, full of music, happy [...]
