personal growth

Self-Awareness: Listening Is Not Passive

Self-Awareness: Listening Is Not Passive

Listening isn't just something we do for others. Sometimes the most important conversation is the one happening within ourselves.

Resume Virtues vs Eulogy Virtues: Building Character, Career, and Workplace Culture

Resume Virtues vs Eulogy Virtues: Building Character, Career, and Workplace Culture

Recently, I came across the idea of resume virtues vs eulogy virtues from David Brooks in The Road to Character , and it stopped me in my tr...

Don’t Play Small

Don’t Play Small

Your Power Serves the World, So Use It “Your playing small does not serve the world.” – Marianne Williamson It took me decades to really und...

Authenticity: The Courage to Be Ourselves

Authenticity: The Courage to Be Ourselves

This year, I keep coming back to the same three words. Intention. Alignment. Authenticity. Not as aspirational ideas. As daily practices. We...

Reflection, Awareness, and Intention: Reframing Resolutions

Reflection, Awareness, and Intention: Reframing Resolutions

For many years, I chose a word for the season I was in. Not a resolution. Not a goal. A companion word. Something to return to when life got...

Get on My Wheel! The Gift of Someone Who Believes in You

Get on My Wheel! The Gift of Someone Who Believes in You

Everything in my life seems to come back to something I learned on a bike. There’s a saying among cyclists: Get on my wheel. It means tuck i...

Cultivating Calm: How Our Energy Ripples Outward

Cultivating Calm: How Our Energy Ripples Outward

I was working register during the busy dinner hour. The lines at Burger King were five across and five deep, filled with families and small,...

Your Power Is in Your Peace

Your Power Is in Your Peace

"We're all just walking each other home." — Ram Dass The Message As I soften and surrender into the most sensitive, reflective, compassionat...

Caterpillar to Butterfly: We don't grow when things are easy.

Caterpillar to Butterfly: We don't grow when things are easy.

We all want the butterfly. We celebrate the wings. But no one dreams about the cocoon. The cocoon feels small. Dark. Uncomfortable. It asks ...