The other day I was having a conversation with some friends about shame. Shocker, right? A couple of them had not heard the intricacies of the concept of shame so I was asked to explain. “Three basic guideposts of shame: We all have it. No one wants...
This week I had the absolute honor and pleasure of being featured on the incredibly amazing: Hiya Tootsie. My friend, Heather Jabornik, is the leading lady on this blog that inspires and challenges women to be more, do more, and believe for more. I do not like...
“We can't save them from themselves.” The conversation carried on, but the words resounded, reverberated, and bounced off the walls of my heart for the foreseeable future. I was talking with a colleague about the work we do, about how we have a front row seat to...
I have spent the past two nights walking around my neighborhood. And I am amiss again thanks to my big empathetic heart. We've discussed before how I am a highly sensitive introvert, no need to bore you, but the long & short of the story is: I...
We are a generation of information. We are a people of information overload. Instead of millenials, the people who decide what our generations are named could have accurately substituted "TMI-ers" as our triumphant title. We share. We like. We share again--the important, the funny, the...
Last year I {re}committed to not dating for {another} year. Remember that? It was exciting. It was on the heels of an already committed three hundred and sixty-five days of intentional not dating. My heart still in a pile on the floor, I took my...
Oh, friends! I have been beside myself waiting to share this information with you. Two years ago, I dreamed of a yoga retreat for the broken-hearted, the broken-spirited. I didn't want people to come on a yoga retreat for a little fun, a lot of yoga, and...
[Please note: This is the first in an installment series titled Sex Talks. These talks are meant to grow awareness and begin healthy conversations that we might otherwise not have had. Please be advised that content is naturally sexually explicit in nature. It is not meant to be a...
Last weekend I had the extreme honor and pleasure of witnessing my baby brother graduate from boot camp, officially becoming a United States Marine. I am still astonished. Four days later, I look at him barely recognizing his now chiseled jaw and nearly bald head. What has...
Walking your talk is hard. Claiming virtues and values over your life and then living them out is extremely challenging. I have a tattoo on my ankle that says, "Courageous One" Courage. Sometimes people see it and mistakenly believe that being courageous equates to being fearless. That's not true...
