One reason that a champion racehorse is such a beautiful sight, when running at its full speed, is that her power is completely unfurled - nothing held back, nothing pent up. The same horse, back ...
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How You Teach is How You Do Everything
(You don't teach? How you Lead. How you Coach. How you Parent. Insert the appropriate word as needed.) As you read through the following pairs of descriptors, you may see yourself (or aspects of you) more than once. I sure do. This list of ways we approach teaching is both diagnostic and prescriptive. Each point ...
Could the world use a good kick in the pants?
I sure think it could. And I know just who can give it the kick it needs: Girls. How do I know? I've lived it. My mom was 19 when I was born, the summer after her first year in college. She had wanted to be a nurse practitioner, but stopped after another year of school ...
Do you really need to improve?
I made this video as a rant after coaching too many clients this week who wanted to "get better" in some way, when all they really needed was to FEEL better, in order to get better results. They nourished themselves, and the seemingly insurmountable challenges turned out to be mightily manageable. That's the good news! ...
Four Laws of Transformation I Learned from Remodeling
Kurt and I tore the roof off our house. This was five years ago now, but the memory is still vivid. We lived there the whole time, which was deeply disconcerting. But we survived to live in a home we love, one that is a perfect expression of us and the community who gather there. As ...
Video Challenge Day 4: Coaching vs. Therapy
I'm working right now with a great organization whose healing practitioners would love to refer clients to me and wanted to know who and how and when. I created this video for them, not for my blog in general. But since it's my latest entry in the Video Challenge, and an interesting (to me) new ...
Video Challenge Day 3: What My Preschooler Taught me Today
Okay, so my challenge is not happening on consecutive days. I'm okay with that. What I like is that I have the opportunity to offer something up without any pressure (from myself anyway! - maybe you feel like there should be some quality there, but I'm not yet worried about it!). Today, I rap just ...
Video Challenge: Day 1
My friend Mark Silver is on day nine of his video challenge... he's been posting daily for the past two weeks. The vulnerability and unapologetic lack of perfectionism in his endeavor inspired me... really, it DARED me, to follow suit. I love being on camera, truth be told. I think better out loud than I ...
Opening to the Feminine: Four Steps to Nourishment
Four steps to opening to the feminine for your nourishment. This post is the sequel to a guest post I did on Molly Gordon’s Authentic Marketing blog. The first post had all the here’s-what’s-going-on and this post is the how-to-tap-in. If you haven’t read the first post, do so first, then pop back ...
Clenching Up for Fun and Profit?
Yoga is described sometimes as the union of effort and surrender. In asana practice (if you're not familiar, asana is the Sanskrit word that describes all those bendy stretchy balance-y poses), the point isn't just to break a sweat or stretch your hams, but to have an embodied experience of universal truths. The ...