Life works best for me when I’m intentional. One of my favorite quotes is “Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.” (unknown) There’s a corollary that I regularly fail to heed which is tasting the food as it goes into my mouth. I often eat on the run and without much … More Episode 128: “This is Your Body on Trauma” with Author Meg Bowman
I like pocket-sized wisdom. The sort I can carry around and invoke, as needed. And lately, I’ve needed all that I can summon, both to soothe myself and support others. I especially like these words, because they’re useful no matter what the stressors might be: I don’t need your permission to do what’s best for … More Pocket Sized Wisdom
Wynne and I can’t think of a more important time in our lives to lean into like-minded, caring friends – especially those who are champions of kindness. Our friend, writer and social justice advocate Ab is one of those persons. You might remember our last podcast with Ab, where we learned about FASD – Fetal … More Episode 95: Finding Our People with Ab
Someone I care about found herself in the throes of an emerging crisis recently and it made for a lopsided day for me. The tasks and duties I’d planned to tackle fell by the wayside and while I wouldn’t have it any other way, I needed to reboot after the detour. Thankfully my dear one … More Community. Connection. Care.
I had a long coffee chat with a former student last week. We’ll call her “Josie”. I love our periodic catch-up convos where she updates me on her life, and I cheer her on. Josie’s accomplishments are many, but her pursuit of perfection often gets in her way. She has stamina and drive but despite … More Josie’s Method
My good humor was stretched a little thin last week. In fact, if you had asked me, I would have told you that life was feeling like a little bit of a slog. And while we are on the subject [of me complaining], I was also feeling broke. Even though my income hasn’t changed and … More Setting the Tone
Did you hear about Elmo’s tender-hearted outreach…on X (formerly Twitter)? You don’t have to love Sesame Street’s favorite cuddle muffin to adore this Tweet, where the lovable Elmo, on January 29, queried his followers: Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing? Yep. That’s right. Sweet Elmo’s outreach? It garnered millions of views and … More I See You!
In this episode, Vicki Atkinson and I are back with one of our favorite guests, writer and retired psychologist, Dr. Gerald Stein. In this fascinating episode, we talk about the factors that keep us from accurately predicting how we’ll react in a situation or knowing what we want life to be. We talk about the … More Episode 60: The Perils of Prediction with Dr. Gerald Stein
A client (we’ll call her Ginger*) asked me recently about hands-on activities and the power of handwork, being productive, creating things and optimizing her mental health. She said she’d listened to a podcast about “effort driven rewards” and she was curious about what I thought. First – I love that Ginger’s doing the good work … More Ginger Knows Best
podcast with David from the Pinwheel in a Hurricane blog about practicing creativity … More Episode 53: Practicing Creativity with David
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