Years ago, when I was dating toward my first marriage, I had a long list of requisite qualities I wanted in a potential mate: dark hair (as a ginger myself, I hoped to give any potential offspring the best…

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice. Mary Oliver   I remember vividly the back-and-forth that occurred in my mind as it became clear…

We absorb a set of beliefs before we are old enough to think for ourselves, and unless we question them, they become the default lenses through which we enter into every situation we encounter. Geneen Roth, Lost and Found…

The other day I received an email from a client that I didn’t expect to receive.  After months of divorce proceedings, which at times had been incredibly chaotic and contentious, the process had finally drawn to a close and…

I just finished a really compelling book called “Cosmic Cradle: Spiritual Dimensions of Life Before Birth.” In it, Drs. Elizabeth and Neil Carman synthesized forty-five years’ worth of research, historical accounts, and firsthand natural experiences of the pre-birth realm.…

“I’m doing all this work, and I have nothing to show for it,” my client recently lamented as she explained how much effort she’d been putting toward getting her work out into the world. She compared it to a…

  In my junior year of college, after years of California dreaming, I finally headed west by transferring from Rhodes College in Memphis to Westmont College in Santa Barbara. In the weeks leading up to the start of the…

There is a lot of advice out there about how to get off your duff and go toward your right life. Heck, I’m a life coach, so this is what I live and breath. I always welcome a fresh…