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Your self-care bottom line
The brutal winter months always remind me of the importance of walking as a way of staying connected to myself. Mostly because, when the weather is really awful, I can’t get out for a very long walk,...
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Slowing down to speed up: embracing gentle on Valentine’s Day
I gave myself a Valentine’s gift today: the gift of sleeping in. I slept until 9:30 (though not without the usual 4 a.m. wake-up call from kitty!). This was a conscious choice — I decided yesterday...
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Procrastination? Or no payoff?
A while back while channel-surfing I had the pleasure of happening on Tootsie, one of my favorite movies of all time which I hadn’t seen in way too long. In the movie, Dustin Hoffman plays Michael...
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Making friends with creative transition
Recently I spoke with a client who had just completed a massive project that took several years of her life to bring to fruition. It was a huge accomplishment for her to send her “baby” out into the...
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Understanding the message of fear + new coaching programs!
When we try something new, or sense that change is on the horizon, or when we’re in a murky transition period that seems to have no end, it’s not unusual to feel varying amounts of fear. Sometimes,...
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The difference between self-care and self-indulgence
I have to admit that I’ve been pretty on edge lately. At times I feel unsafe. The house I rent is up for sale, and I know I need to move soon. Being in limbo mode with my living space brings up all my...
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Hearing my voice in a noisy world
my daily journaling station I grew up in a chaotic and noisy home. I’m not sure why it was this way — we were (and are) a loving family, and our propensity is more toward the introvert side of the...
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Radical self-care: when your “normal” has changed
As I’ve been working with clients in my Stellar Self-Care program, I notice how the tendency for many of us is to keep going on “as usual” — even though our lives have changed. Maybe a health issue...
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Allowing yourself to dream fully
Sometimes, when we realize we want to make changes in our lives — to show up more fully, to get our creative work out into the world — we hit a kind of wall. The wall is at once universal (we all...
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Bringing the joy back to your creative work
Recently, a writer friend and I had a great conversation about what to do during those periods when you feel like the joy has simply evaporated from your creative work (or your life!). The talk got me...
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Do you have a “most creative” time of day?
I got an email from a client the other day (and she gave me permission to share parts of it here). It was a joyful update — she’d finally hit on a workable process for doing the beautiful paintings...
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How moving is bringing up my stuff (literally)
Sullivan claims his “right size” at the top of the hierarchy of our new home. It’s been a month since my last post here, and for good reason: I moved to a new home two and a half weeks ago. Well, sort...
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Walking my talk about self-care + Happy Fall!
Maybe the hardest thing for me about going through a time of heightened activity (or, insanely heightened activity) is coming down from it all. After the last couple of months of transitioning from my...
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The difference between “ready” and “comfortable”
Scroll down to find out about limited-time Autumn Transition Coaching Sessions. As I am settling into my new living space, I notice how satisfied I feel with this change. Being in this new place...
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Avoiding the intimacy of creating
Publishing this post today, my heart is heavy with the news of the horrible events in Paris. A prayer for love and kindness in the world, and for each of us to remember that it starts with the way we...
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Permission to do it differently + last day to grab an Autumn Transition...
Scroll down to learn more about my Autumn Transition Coaching Sessions — the deadline to sign up is today! Sometimes (often) I get really, really attached to the way I’ve always done something. Like,...
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You only ever need to do one thing
Yesterday I was having one of those days where my mind spun with all that I was sure needed to be done. I sat at my kitchen table, staring out the window, trying frantically to access peace (as if...
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How time distortions keep you from getting things done
I love how this clock looks like it has cat ears. Here at the beginning of a new year, a curious phenomenon has arisen in the work I’ve been doing with my coaching clients. It comes down to this: what...
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Are you pulling back enough to gain perspective? + special February coaching...
Scroll down to learn about my special coaching prices this month, in celebration of the Lunar New Year! One thing about my many, many years of journal-keeping is that certain patterns — truths about...
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How distracting yourself can get you unstuck
Sometimes we can find ourselves in a cycle that looks like this: We’re pushing and pushing to get something done, but it’s not working, no matter how hard we push. Then we ask ourselves, “Why isn’t it...
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