Hello peeps! Happy to share the next installment in my post-perfectionist video series. Today I address a question posed by Wendy, former student and colleague. In the video I mention the practice of Remembrance, which I learned from Mark Silver. You can access a recording of Mark guiding you through Remembrance here. I look forward [...]

Hello my dear peeps! Last you read, I had given myself permission to stop for the month of December.  I’m delighted to announce it was a powerful and fruitful experiment — one that I will be reporting back on in my next few posts. Today, I want to celebrate and declare my intention for 2012 [...]

Recently, my friend Kyeli and I were promoting a joint class.  As part of our marketing, we asked our friends and colleagues to use social media and help us spread the word; we gave them a variety of examples and quotes that they could use to tweet and mention on Facebook.  I was fascinated to [...]

My hands-down all-time favorite movies are the original Star Wars trilogy.  And of course like million other fans, one of my favorite scenes is Luke’s moment of choice to tap into something greater than himself to destroy the Death Star. So let’s talk metaphors.  What if the Death Star is that thing about our world [...]

I had a conversation with my sweet soul-sister Laura today that inspired this post.  We were talking about writing, and this blog, and the feeling of help-I’m-not-doing-it-right if I don’t do it every week, and have a brilliant post each time, and get at least 20 comments raving on my wisdom.  Umm…expectations, anyone? We were [...]

I spent this past weekend volunteering at the Landmark Forum.  It has been fifteen years since the first time I attended this program, and I had a great time reviewing the material and reconnecting to the principles that I’ve found useful in my work as a coach and in my own personal development.  (Yes, Landmark [...]

It’s been over two decades since I started college, but September is still a special month for me.  I want to run out and buy myself a new backpack, or at least sharpen a few pencils.  Aliana, my second-grade daughter, is pretty excited to go back to school too – I’ve been sublimating my back-to-school [...]