Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: Episode three of The ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. Do you know your core values and do you walk them out with intention? Do you have a clear vision that lights your path? At the end of your days, how will you know you’ve lived well? Palliative nurse Bronnie Ware recorded her patient’s end …
Inside: What is hope? It’s not wishful thinking or fairy dust. It’s practical, action-oriented, and has a lot in common with resilience. In its simplest sense, hope is, I believe, the ability to envision a new joyful possibility. To hold a vision for where we’re heading or where we want to go, and then choosing …
Inside: An overview of a rich and powerful practice that allows us to glean from the wisdom of our four life seasons and embrace the season we’re in. I’ve included simple ways to start practicing along with Seasonal Living resource recommendations. I started cycle tracking at 34 years old, initially to help me regulate my …
Inside: If you’ve ever felt stuck in fear or pain, if you’ve spent time hiding or procrastinating on what matters most to you, if you’ve felt despondent about the state of your life or the world, learning how to practice fierce self-compassion will help. This post includes referral links. Fierce self-compassion is what helped me …
Inside: I sat down to write today and this poem came out. Recently my clients have been telling me that my work is helping them find their way home to themselves. A beautiful testimonial. The journey home is a hard and messy one but it’s also the path of freedom. This is who I am. …
Inside: Forced or willingly there come times in life when our familiar ground falls away and we are thrust into turbulence or transition. These 5 habits can help you show up with strength and resilience if you must begin again. In times of turbulence or transition, the structure and flow of our daily life shifts, …
Inside: Walking each other home is a privilege. Here are 19 bittersweet gifts I’ve picked up as I walked alongside my son through the final year of his life. Sensitive Content: in this post I speak to child loss, suicide loss, and severe depression On a cold wintry night, just over a year ago, my …
Inside: Self-care is always important yet easily neglected. In painful seasons of life when it feels like we’re drowning it can feel incredibly hard to see our way forward. These 7 self-care practices help me show up when life is painful. This post may contain referral links. The choice to keep living fully as we …
Inside: When my heart starts rushing forward, I pull it back tenderly and remind it that today is still summer. Tomorrow will care for itself. “August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They Sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.” Jonathan Safran Foer What …
Inside: We think life is all or nothing. Straight up happiness or abject misery. The truth falls somewhere messy in-between. Hope is the thing with feathers. The day was bright and clear. I sat in my little living room, chair pulled up close to the big picture window shaded by the Mountain Ash tree, heavy …
I was so young but wanted to leave. Already weary. No fight in me. Is that how you feel? Weary? So incredibly tired of the battle that is against you? I have hated myself. Wished I could be different. Compared myself to others, always lacking. Always. I knew that I was weak. That I didn’t …
