Dear fear, Why, hello there, old friend! I’m amazed that I’m even calling you friend. You used to be someone I would ignore, hoping that you would go away, whenever I thought about leaving what was familiar or exploring the new. You were my constant companion when I would find myself literally lost in the […]
Dear money, We had an exercise during coach training last year where I had a conversation with you. One of my fellow coaches took on your persona and asked me a few questions: Is our relationship now secure for you? Do you expect me to make you happy? Do you love me? Having that conversation shifted […]
Dear Courage, Don’t fail me now. I am recommitting myself to you, to the promise of potential, to a new future which makes my vision for my life a priority. Stick with me when I’m not patient. Stick with me when I’m scared. Stick with me when I want to give up. Remind me of […]
Dear future Aurora, So how’s the view over there? It’s been eight years since you left the safety of the corporate world to strike out on your own, to fulfill this dream, to listen to the voice that was telling you to start your own business. Was it everything you imagined? Was it better? Was […]
Dear intuition, The one time I went to her, a chart reader (“I am not a fortune teller,” she had quietly reminded me) told me, “your intuition is very strong.” I shook my head and told her she had it all wrong. Unlike my friends who revealed that they had kutob (an inkling) about why they didn’t fall […]
Dear home, I needed to find you. I had moved back to my parents’ house, after a difficult patch in my marriage, the hardest and darkest part of my life. You stood for moving on, for a dream come true—even if my life looked nothing like I had planned, even if I was living a […]
