Making Personal Change
There are a lot of ideas out there about how to approach planning for the new year. Pick a word for the year, or a theme. Set goals. Do a vision board. But if you were to ask me, “What one thing could I do to set myself up for a joyful, vibrant, fulfilling [...]
My old career was lovely and interesting, but I was in it because I was being more loyal to my fears than to my dreams. (I know. Ouch. It felt like an ouch when I first said those words to myself too.) Whenever I am telling this story and I say, “I was [...]
In my work with women who want to play bigger in their lives and work, I often hear this: “I want to make x change, (start a business, get in great shape, get my artwork out there in the world) but I have no self-discipline! I start working on it and just don’t stick with [...]
Today is the first day of the week-long Girl Effect Blogging Campaign. I think most of you know by now (but in case you don’t), I created the blogging campaign to mobilize bloggers to write about girls in the developing world. About a year and a half ago, I first watched this short Girl [...]
I think it’s fair to say that, collectively, we women are officially in trouble when it comes to our relationship to our bodies: 70% of normal-weight women report wanting to be thinner. A UK study found that 91% of women are dissatisfied with their hips and thighs. And perhaps even more troubling, 54% of girls [...]
Hi everyone! I’m wrote an audio post for today – about my retreat, about Your Other Names, and why I’m so passionate about all of us connecting with our other names. (If you are reading this in your email and aren’t seeing the player below, click here.) There are four spots left for [...]
I wanted to pass along a few articles and resources today: 1. My poem on Courage, over at Kate Swoboda’s site. I’ve been thinking a lot about courage lately, and about what actually allows us to be courageous. I think it’s love. It’s not some mysterious quality of “bravery” but actually having a wealth [...]
I just returned from Jen Louden’s week long writing retreat in Taos, New Mexico. It was the first time I’ve taken that long of retreat for myself. I’ve gone on weekend workshops before, but nothing like this. I went because I wanted to break through some stuckness around a writing project. I also went [...]
Many of us think we are supposed to naturally experience happiness: as long as we aren’t in the midst of great tragedy or hardship, we should feel good. But that is not how it works. What happens naturally is that we receive a roadmap to those feelings–a totally unique, customized map–to our own joy. We [...]
I’ve never been into the whole “I am enough” thing. I’ve heard it invoked in personal growth circles for years – but it always struck me as a little saccharine, a little too 1980′s pop-psychology, a little to ready to be parodied on a Saturday Night Live episode. I didn’t think much about the [...]
