Tag: courage

  • The Velocity of Love: Everything You Need You Already Are

    The Velocity of Love: Everything You Need You Already Are

    This February, join me for a different kind of love story. Seven days exploring how loving yourself first isn’t selfish—it’s how you become capable of the kind of love that changes everything. Because hope begins when you fill your own well. Love is a force in motion. It builds when it’s shared and transforms everything…

  • The Velocity of Love

    The Velocity of Love

    This February, join me for a different kind of love story. Seven days exploring how loving yourself first isn’t selfish—it’s how you become capable of the kind of love that changes everything. Because hope begins when you fill your own well. Love is a force in motion. It builds when it’s shared and transforms everything…

  • Every experience points True North

    Every experience points True North

    No time to read? Listen here:  If you had to name a thing you can do with absolute confidence, what would it be? Maybe you can bake the perfect cake, coax a garden into bloom, patch a wall like a pro, or change a flat tire without breaking a sweat. Whatever it is, chances are…

  • Sensitivity is a strength, not a character flaw

    Sensitivity is a strength, not a character flaw

    No time to read? Listen here:  What does it really mean to honor our feelings? Here’s an excerpt from my upcoming book, The Beautiful Road, where I dive into this question.   Our feelings are one of the most beautiful and authentic parts of who we are. They’re like rivers of truth that run through…

  • A grateful heart

    A grateful heart

    No time to read? Listen here:  I hope you enjoy this excerpt on the beauty of gratitude from my next book, The Beautiful Road!    Sara Ban Breathnach’s 1995 book, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy was more than a bestselling book—it was, and is, a revolutionary way of living. It offers a…

  • Beautiful Someone, Come Home to Now

    Beautiful Someone, Come Home to Now

    No time to read? Listen here:  I hope you enjoy this excerpt from my next book, The Beautiful Road!    We’ve all heard it before — “Be in the moment.” It’s screened onto coffee mugs, whispered in yoga studios, printed on posters everywhere. And if you’re anything like me, maybe it used to drive you…

  • We’re not meant to blend in

    No time to read? Listen here:  “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” is an episode from the original Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling and based on the fable The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont. The episode depicts a dystopian future where beauty is everything. By age 19, every young person must go through a…

  • Hot situation? Stay cool!

    Hot situation? Stay cool!

    Please enjoy this excerpt from my upcoming book: Keep Cool in Hot Situations: Start to Thrive When Conflict Arrives   No time to read? Listen here! We’ve got a range of ways to respond when someone is being thoughtless, unfair, or rude to us. Walking away is one of them. On the outside, walking away may…

  • See what’s possible in July, Week 4: You, Beautiful 2.0

    See what’s possible in July, Week 4: You, Beautiful 2.0

    For decades, running a mile in less than four minutes was considered impossible, beyond the physical capacity of the human body. But in 1954, Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, proved this belief wrong by running a mile in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds on the Iffley Road track in Oxford, England in front…

  • See what’s possible in July, Week 3: Strong in the broken places

    See what’s possible in July, Week 3: Strong in the broken places

    I tried writing this week’s post three times. Couldn’t do it. The kitten needed spaying. My teeth needed cleaning. My closet needed organizing. And a million other things that come up when I’m supposed to be writing, and I’m just not ready. But then, I remembered a story scribbled in a notebook that I had…