Lately, I’ve been feeling called to make a plan. To get out magazines, and glue sticks, glitter, inspirational quotes, and wishes. To rally some friends to come and create a vision for our Summer. To jam to some fantastic tunes, maybe do some yoga, drink some mid-range wine and eat goat cheese and fig jam on gluten-free crackers. I’m hosting a Summer Vision Board Session, Wild, and Precious. As I write this it is Memorial Day weekend, the last longer lazier weekend before the

I love this song and it just played on my Pandora station as I sit here writing at Rustic Cabin Coffee in my hometown of Duvall, WA. For some reason today I really heard, no felt, these lyrics. It was one of those big “YES” moments where I saw so clearly if something is bringing you down today, figure out a way to get if off your back. To just shake it off. Sunday, I had my own backpack of woe firmly strapped to my back, and I had somehow slipped from a place of light and eas

Today I failed. A grande fail, made bigger by the fact that it wasn’t just myself I let down but my precious child. As I type this I can feel the deep sadness welling up inside of me, like I’ve swallowed all the clouds in the winter sky and can’t keep them down. The feeling starts at my navel, rises to fill my rib cage, expanding my throat and into my mouth. I part my lips and a puff of despair seeps out. I place my hand over my mouth to keep it in as not to disrupt the woman

“What is My Life’s Purpose?" As an Executive, Career and Life Coach focused on helping clients design and live fully inspired, integrated lives, “What is my life’s purpose?” is one of the more common questions clients identify as an area in need of clarity. “I don’t really have a passion; I just know it isn’t this.” I’ve been studying the Japanese concept of Ikigai this week. I’ve come across it before but it popped back on my radar, and I decided to dig into it a bit. The wo

I’ve been carrying this blog post around in my mind, in my heart, written in the pages of a notebook and on my lips for months. I think it is the start of a new project, one that I am not able to move forward with right now because of my book, Your Big Bold Life Plan. By now my book and I are sick of each other, like adolescent siblings trapped in the back seat on a week-long road trip with dead iphone batteries and no service. Sadly, my mom is not willing to moderate this ve

I have a notoriously bad memory. I will willingly admit this and with unusual self-awareness and dash of humor explain that any memory that is slightly unsightly about myself is about 99% blocked. “Remember that time you had friends over and had a pudding fight while we were out?” my mom will ask. Pudding fight? I don’t even like pudding. Friends laugh and think I am kidding but I am not. There is an Iranian Proverb, The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries

In mindfulness education we talk about the concept of a beginners mind. This is the idea that we strive to experience the now, by seeing it through the eyes of a beginner. Having an attitude of openness, eagerness and lack of preconceptions. As if you’d never seen it before. How you would you look at something you’d never seen, experience your daily commute, or drink your morning coffee if you’d never experienced it ever before? Navigating my busy life in Washington, I work