This time of year can be wonderful for the opportunity to gather with friends & family, to witness & receive small gestures of kindness and generally to experience the slow slide into the winter season with the impending promise of brighter days. It can be also a time of stress, worry and short-fuses where you …
Recognizing & jettisoning my “Ego life-preserver”
When I saw the meeting request arrive in my inbox late at night, I immediately felt some triggers and noticed some of my reactions - “I don’t have time for this”, “great, another meeting where I have to justify or prove myself”. No matter how much work you do for yourself, I find that I’m …
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Be curious as a way to grow
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt As we grow older with more experiences under our belt, our emotional palette becomes quite rich & complex. We have so many feelings that we can …
Why Moving Didn’t Solve Any of My Problems
I originally wrote this article for the site Tiny Buddha, a wonderful community who encourage growth through awareness & self-understanding, acceptance & forgiveness. I'll link to the article in its entirety on that site and hope you spend some time exploring the great content that the site has to offer. Why Moving Didn't Solve Any …
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