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Small shifts during big change
If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, or are subscribed to my newsletter (you can do that here!), you know I am a big fan of little changes. Huge changes in our lives can be highly...
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Puttering time, soul needs, and ever-shifting self-care
“what happened to alone time?” During the loooong time since I published my last blog post, I’ve had to kind of reinvent the ways I practice self-care. Sound familiar? Part of this (perhaps...
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Working with (not against!) your available energy
I’ve written a lot on this site over the years about working with our energy, energetic ebbs and flows, and the challenges highly sensitive and/or introverted folks can have with energy (especially...
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The invitation to move inward
Here in the Chicago area of the U.S., we are reaching the time of year where it gets dark very early. Sometimes I turn a light on in my living room now before 4 p.m. because it’s become so dim. From...
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Shifting your relationship to the problem
One of my favorite books is Tara Brach’s Radical Acceptance, in which she discusses the concept of “widening the lens of attention.” (You can tell this is a book I’ve turned to again and again, given...
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The power of acknowledging what is true
The other day I began to feel tired and to develop a sinus headache relatively early in the day. By 2 p.m., I was pretty wiped out and really didn’t feel like doing anything else. Something in me,...
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Mood, assumptions, and action
Sometimes when I am working with coaching clients, we talk about things that boil down, in essence, to “low mood.” Low mood is basically “I don’t feel like doing anything. I feel kind of sluggish and...
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Back to basics: practicing presence
As I write this, it’s a rainy fall day and drops are pelting the bedroom window. The change in seasons has got me pondering my own, internal seasons. How often do we forget that, as humans, we are...
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Time and space to process change
My partner is away doing some cat-sitting, so it’s just me and our cat, Genevieve, in the living room as I write this today. There’s a delicious silence in here right now as I look around the room at...
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What helps you create spaciousness in your life?
The word “spaciousness” came up a lot this past week in my work with my coaching clients. There seemed to be an almost collective noticing (and that’s what coaching sessions can be great for,...
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