Tag: hope
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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What lies beneath? A hundred reasons to be kind
No time to read? Listen here: Have you ever heard someone say that people are like icebergs? The part of a person we see — the way someone acts, what they say, the version of themselves they show us — it’s all just the top. A tiny peak above the surface. The biggest part of…
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In February, let’s create a ripple or two
We’re not as independent as we think! No time to read? Listen here! Early in his career, salesman Joe Girard created his “Law of 250” which says that every person knows on average 250 other people. In his world, that meant that a positive sales experience for one customer had the potential to yield 250…
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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…
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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…
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See what’s possible in July, Week 2: The law of attraction
The 2007 runaway bestseller, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne drew both fierce devotees (who thought of it as a kind of magic) and fierce detractors (who called it pseudoscience). The book’s premise is that there is a great secret available to anyone — a type of energy that attracts everything that we want if we…
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Make something beautiful in June: beautiful ground
In 1950, Detroit, Michigan was home to the biggest car companies in the world including Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors. At the time, the “Motor City” was the fourth largest city in the U.S. after New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. But as auto companies decentralized manufacturing far and wide, Detroit’s population decreased — in 2021…
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