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Finding My Way Through Grief: How I Became A Routine Person

Finding My Way Through Grief: How I Became A Routine Person I’ve had something of a love-hate relationship with routine and ritual over the years. I used to be the one who thought routine was boring, restrictive and constrictive. That there was no humanity in doing the same thing every day, that that’s how lives got wasted away. I’ve always […]

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Keeping Score, Building Better Boundaries, and the Revolutionary Act of Knowing What You Want

KEEPING SCORE, BUILDING BETTER BOUNDARIES, AND THE REVOLUTIONARY ACT OF KNOWING WHAT YOU WANT   Have you ever replayed a pivotal conversation in your head, substituting all the awesome things you COULD have said but didn’t, making the most profound of points with the succinct and striking ease that annoyingly escaped you in the proverbial heat of the actual high-stress […]

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Vulnerability: Being Seen Hurt

(Post #2 in the Daring Greatly series, inspired by and in response to Brené Brown’s book, Daring Greatly:  How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead.) In my last post I described some of what I love about vulnerability, leaving the impression perhaps that for me, being vulnerable always either feels like Pop Rocks […]

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Baring the Very Same Spot: Some Thoughts on Vulnerability

(Post #1 in the Daring Greatly series, inspired by and in response to Brené Brown’s book, Daring Greatly:  How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead.) Well hello there, all you thriving blooms. I’m super excited to dig in to our first book!   This is the second time I’ll be reading Daring Greatly; […]

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