I am exceptionally good at freaking myself out. One morning, I sat down and calculated the cost of my returning to France next year to continue studying. As I’d suspected, it’s around $20,000. Ay carumba. All those zeros still freak me out. And while it’s not that much considering the quality of education I’ll be [...]
Welcome to the Sunday Hug! Leave your shame, guilt and sin at the door, and put your Compassion Pants on. Every Sunday, I chat about things we often pretend aren’t there – fear, anger, overwhelm, envy. You know – all those things that make us human. And then everyone gets a hug, because being a [...]
Today’s hug is for all the times you couldn’t figure out what the hell you were supposed to be changing or growing next. It’s so easy to forget sometimes that there are other kinds of growth than the ones approved of by society. If you have your own business, or want your own business, or [...]
I’m kind of glad January is almost over. It’s not that it hasn’t been amazing and fabulous. It’s just been…a lot. A lot of scary. A whole helluva lot of stretching. Stretching past fear, past self-imposed limitations, past my ideas of what is possible or not. On December 24th, in “The Crisis is Over” I [...]
We try so hard to stay small. We try to fit in, to do what’s expected of us, to keep others happy. We stay quiet, never being too loud, too obnoxious. We confine ourselves, fit ourselves into tiny little compartments. We accept less, we do less, we hide our light under rocks and bushes. We [...]
Don’t worry, I’m not going to start telling you that you need to eat organic foods and reduce your carbon footprint – many others are doing that far better than I could. No, I’m talking about my business, my career. Lately, I’ve woken up to the merits of organic growth. Note: this post will ramble [...]
This is one of those mornings where I’m staring at this screen, and I can’t seem to find the words to express to you what I’m thinking about. So I apologize if none of this makes any sense at all. Maybe I’ll make a point by the end, but right now, I’m just writing because [...]
Part of this week’s exercises in the Artist’s Way (I’m on week 9, by the way) is to go back and read my morning pages. At first, I was appalled. Also a little nervous, a little scared. Really? I thought. You really want me to go back and read those awful, horrible scratchings and scrawlings? [...]
It’s not that 2008 was necessarily a bad year. More like it was a hard year. A year where I noticed that my life was not what I wanted it to be at all, and as a result, went through lots and lots of growing pains. And I mean lots. And loudly. With lots of [...]
