I’m finding this summer unexpectedly challenging. From the oldest finishing high school and soon heading away to college, to the youngest getting ready to start a full day of school in first grade, life is heading into a new chapter.…
Positive Thinking Or Micromanaging? Let’s Talk Baby Steps
We hear about positive thinking and that we should always “think positively!”, trying to keep any and all “negative” thoughts out of our head. I don’t find that very useful. Trying to micromanage our thoughts is hard. Rather, what if…
Slump Pits: Today Stinks — How To Get Out?
I was out of whack and in a slump yesterday (and the day before and day before and probably the day before that). The sludge is still lapping at my ankles today. I hate falling into a slump. While I…
Getting Through The Struggles
Struggles, challenges, wells of pain, and really, really messy times happen — for all of us. One of the things I’ve found helpful in climbing out of worry, stress, overwhelm, and depression: ditching the fight and reminding myself life is…
Thoughts Potent; Meditation Handy
Thoughts are kind of funny things. They can seem insignificant, inconsequential, something that happens, beyond our control. And they are the sleepers of life: wildly powerful. Where our thoughts regularly go, so do we. It’s not about “thinking positively!” all…
Looking At Snapshots
When we read an article on how to eat, meditate like a pro, tone our abs, or ace an interview, it’s just that — an article with an idea. We can take it or leave it. When we see an…
Getting More Done
Thoughts on beating burnout and becoming more productive — with my teen in mind. Dear Lexie, “Get more done!!!!” is on my brain right now — this space is quicksand. I know you’ve spent plenty of time in “go harder,…
Make Me Happy: On Happiness and Other People
A tough (though useful) life lesson I’m starting to get (after years of trying to please every coach, teacher, boss, and other “authority figure,” even into adulthood, and seeing that I, too, had begun to rely on others in order…
Give Me Promises, Labels, and Answers
I want badly to have things neatly sorted out. To know. To have all questions answered. As if somehow the certainty will help me feel better. Because then there won’t be the discomfort of the unknown. That once everything is…
Belonging To Oneself
If we want our children to belong to themselves*, to know and feel and get that they are awesome and worthy and enough and full of potential and possibility, that they do not need to fit into the box of…