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...
Shit. That hurts. Have you ever felt irretrievably broken? That was what they told me my relationship was, the attorneys: "irretrievably broken. You can't get it back," they said. You absolutely cannot glue it back together. Not even with the best Krazy glue you can find. (And...
I was listening (eavesdropping is another way to put this, but that is irrelevant) to a conversation over lunch a few days ago & was struck by how instinctual it is for us to put ourselves down. In an effort to cut out this atrocious...
Somewhere along the way something has gone terribly awry. Somewhere, somehow, for some people...
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...
