Reframing transition and finding direction from the inside out. For the past few years, I’ve been in a season of uncertainty, questioning, and waiting. As a coach, this isn’t easy to admit. Coaches are supposed to have the tools to help navigate transitional times. And we do. We help you challenge old habits and worn-out… Continue reading When the Path Isn’t Clear
Over the past two months, I had the opportunity to participate in two beautiful workshops that had me spending a lot of creative time outside. The first was 30 Days of Nature Poetry, offered by poet Mary Walker from New Zealand. It was a daily practice of taking time to sit in nature, see what… Continue reading Pulling Wild Onions: Remembering How to Listen
Learning to Unfurl The move from winter to spring is disorienting for me. I feel delighted to have the sun for extra hours, but I also miss the early darkness, with its permission to close the blinds to the outside world and hibernate. I am excited to open the bedroom window for the first time… Continue reading The Messy Magic of Spring
In August 2024, I learned about a retreat a coaching friend was organizing to South Africa the following January. Now, South Africa was a place I had never considered traveling to, yet when I heard about it, my soul responded surprisingly with a full-bodied yes. However, my head was immediately full of doubt. I hate… Continue reading Tracking Your Life
Word of the Year A few years ago I started the practice of choosing a Word of the Year, in lieu of long lists of resolutions I would inevitably not keep. Choosing a word felt gentler to me, more flowing and less forcing my life into a shape potentially dictated by culture and the expectations… Continue reading Coddiwomple with Wonder
Last week was a tough week. A roller coaster of emotions kinda week. And because I am prone to cynicism and depression, I spent several days in a cocoon of despair. But to my credit, I did not stay there. My soul told me that the only thing to do to move forward in right… Continue reading When Despair Comes
I’ve always loved to write. The kind of writing I’ve done has always been in service of working things out, an excavation of the deep, down in my depths of myself in order to make sense of the ruminating chaos in my head. It was helpful, but I noticed over time, my purpose became a… Continue reading Why I Started Writing Poetry
My coaching friend Hannah and I have created a 4-week course called, Find Your Inner Compass, Look Within to Go Beyond. But, are you wondering what an inner compass is and why it’s so important? Your inner compass is the part of you that knows what it wants and needs to do next. Even if… Continue reading Find Your Inner Compass
I felt a nudge when I was 17. I had been working at a camp all summer with kids of all ages, playing, swimming, cooking, and crafting outside all day in the sticky heat and humidity of a North Carolina summer. Of all the exciting things we did that summer, the times I remembered most… Continue reading Follow the Nudges
Hiking this past fall, I saw a sign that said, “Healing in Progress, Please Stay on Trail”, put up by the US Forest Service, to encourage people to stay off the areas where they were trying to rehabilitate trampled vegetation. The places where people were either looking for shortcuts, or lost and unclear of the… Continue reading Healing in Progress, Please Stay on Trail
Soul Geography 