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Curve balls galore! Are things not going as planned for you? Sending you well wishes for practicing giving yourself space to let off steam with intention to support your well-being. 

What habits and practices provide you with deep comfort and support? Let's do it! I am focusing on drinking water, movement each day, and a warm bath here and there. This is the darkest time of the year, let's snuggle up and through it :)

I love problem solving and getting things done on my own. I also love collaboration and being on a team! When I set out to do something on my own and show myself I can do it, and then I realize I can't, it can be hard for me to work through who to ask for help and how to do it. Do you relate? Let's help each other. 

This time of year can be overwhelming for some of us. What if you didn't have to "decide" how you felt and instead felt it all? How might you create some gentleness and space over the next two weeks for yourself? Winter break babay! 

honoring bell hooks today and all days. Thank you thank you thank you. What is love? I recommend reading "all about love." And then I go into creativity and our relationship to our expression. How might you take one baby step today to express yourself today?

As I launch into celebrating my 7th "carversary" with luna my prius c, we journey through the winding road of my history with cars, some learning, some growing, and some interruptions in between. 

Rain boots, rain jacket, umbrella, and a rain-jacket for my dog! I went out in the rain prepared yesterday, and realized how far I have come from the days of no hat, no glove, no boots days in winter as a young adult. Celebrating the times we prepare and care for ourselves, and giving compassion for all the times we weren't aware.

Many of us make expressive or emotional noises or sounds on our own or with others. Your voice has information for you. Your voice can help you process and release. When and where might you explore what is yearning to emerge? Follow your voice. 

Bing, bing, bing! I'm a little all over the place tonight.. a little about pizza and tattoos. Then I acknowledge that relationship with food can be painful and distressing for many people, particularly at this time of year. Let's give ourselves some love and compassion and remember what Sonya Renee Taylor says "the body is not an apology." Sending love to you!

How we make meaning out of the mystery of life is fascinating to me. Today I encourage you to reflect on the meaning you make in your life. Let's be curious:) also I share a fun confluence of events on 2/4/2004. Where were you that day?

How do you define the success of your work? Separating our identity from our work can be hard for some people, and it has been hard for me in my life. How might you turn up the volume on your own definition of success? 

Sometimes we want to make things more complicated, to add bells and whistles because we think that will make our work or our life better. Will it? What I am learning now during the darkest time of the year, and in the middle of a move.. keep it simple, be you. 

I did an episode in the middle of moving, and while setting up a whole new tech system. Here is the real deal, sketchy audio and low energy. It's not all sunshine and rainbows folks. Sending love to you!

I'm moving tomorrow and have a lot on my plate. Reflecting on how I approach these seasons. Are you digging deep for more energy? Are you tired? How might we give ourselves compassion and gentleness during these seasons, and approach them with intention?

Whoa by chance it is my parents 52nd anniversary and this is the 52nd episode -- boom! Happy anniversary Mom and Dad I love you! Today he and I talked about new technologies and how we can use them to learn, explore, and connect. So tonight I reflect on my dad's early adoption of technology throughout my life. 

What are we editing out of our life? How is editing serving you or not serving you?

Many years ago, today, I played my last college soccer game, in the finals of the national tournament, and it was one of the most beautiful experiences of sports, collaboration, and teamwork I have ever experienced. When I was a young person I was hyper-competitive and I squirmed when someone would say "it isn't about winning and losing it's how you play the game," because I wanted to win! My iden...

We let go of something and then it pops back up. What is the gift and the opportunity in that moment? Ask yourself, is there something more to learn, experience, appreciate, explore? 

have you ever recognized something, processed it for the first time, after "seeing" it a hundred times? It is a curious phenomenon. Look around your environment, soak it in. I am grateful any time I get to see something with new eyes.

This Thanksgiving I am sitting with creating space for multiple and complex emotions. Let's build our muscle for holding and honoring the truth, and the "both, and" of our feelings about it. 

We have the power to plant seeds of love, hope and celebration. Today I wanted to remind you that you are a champion, even if you forget. Pass it on. 

We each have our own unique relationship with and definition of play. What is made possible when we expand our definitions of the situations, places and, spaces we give ourselves permission to play? I encourage you to give yourself gentleness and compassion and permission to be closed to playful energy when it doesn't feel appropriate or possible for you. If and when you do feel a sense of glee, h...

Particularly during intense or challenging times, play can be the first thing to go. Giving ourselves permission to play is critical to living and thriving. It might feel hard or invalidating to the pain of life to play. When there is heaviness in our world it is even more important to play and connect and to fill up our cup and our hearts with joy. How and when might you give yourself permission...

We are all developed or experienced in some areas and not others. No one has this thing all figured out or dialed in. No one is perfect. I was surprised to realize that the basic household task I did today.. it was my first time doing it! What is an area you would like to learn about, discover or develop? Let's give ourselves permission to be beginners, we need to start somewhere.

During these wild, new and changing times, there are likely several adulting things that have fallen through the cracks in your life. Let's give ourself compassion! When you are prepared, pay on time, and take the clothes out of the washer before they have stayed in there too long and you need to rewash them.. give yourself a pat on the back, that's a win babay!