The hike up Graybeard Mountain was hard, full of rocks and roots and steep climbs. At the summit my hair was wet with sweat, cheeks flushed and my heart was pounding from exhaustion and because a storm was coming in quickly. The hike down was even harder. Rocks and roots slick with rain and my… Continue reading Up and Down
My work as a life coach is to act as a guide, supporting you in reconnecting with your essential soul self, so that you can start to create a life more closely aligned to your values, your joys and your choices. Many of us don’t know that we have lost touch with our souls, until… Continue reading Connect to Your Core with Creativity
Do you take time to rest? Time to engage in the intentional and purposeful act of laying it all down for a moment, before your “to-do” list is done. Or, like so many of us, do you have the thought that you only deserve rest after all the work is done? Or, maybe because your… Continue reading Permission to Rest
Most of us want to make changes in our lives. In fact, the whole mission of Soul Geography is to develop and practice new ways to live and be in the world, ways of being that closely align with our truest, most essential nature and desires. This is my whole job as a life coach.… Continue reading Tiny to Transformative
When my grandmother died in 2018, at the age of 98, my family was left with the task of selling her home. It was a modest house that my grandfather had built after WWII, a house that was the center of my family’s life. My last time in the there, finding it hard to let… Continue reading Improbable Possibility
Did you ever play Telephone when you were a kid? The game where someone whispers something into your ear, then the message gets whispered to each person in the circle, and the last person to receive it speaks the message out loud. Then hilarious laughter erupts because along the way, the message changed depending on… Continue reading Listen to the Whispers
So much has happened in my life the past four years, so many changes and transitions that have been devastating and disorienting. But also, as I look back, I can see ways that these years have brought clarity and growth in the midst of the unsettling times. At my church there is a banner… Continue reading A Two-Step Dance
It’s likely that once you start trying to notice your emotions and their accompanying sensations more regularly, that other emotions will rush in to judge your emotions. For example, feeling shame over your anger (shamxiety?) or fear of your anxiety (fearxiety?). Here is where it is time to lean into curiosity and kindness about WHATEVER… Continue reading A Power Worth Harnessing
There is no turning back, you know. Once the soul is awake,and the voice of spirit beckons, there is only one direction. Ofcourse, the route may look a bit circuitous. Yes, it maylook as if you move every which way but forward until you seethe broader view, the one that shows you with arms thrownwide,… Continue reading Precisely Where You Are
The cure for the pain is the pain. Rumi Last year I came across a book called 90 Seconds to a Life you Love by Dr. Joan Rosenberg. While I hated the title of the book, I was challenged and intrigued by the idea that most of our difficulties with change and moving forward is… Continue reading Emotions, the Weather that Shapes our Landscapes
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