Every weekend last February, I have been attending pottery class. This is a long-held dream of playing with a pottery wheel and creating beautiful things from a mound of clay. Happily, unlike other dreams where I had very high expectations, pottery school did not disappoint. I wrote exuberantly in my journal after one class: My […]
As the pottery wheel whirled around, I confidently placed my wet hands on the clay and started molding it upwards into a skinny cone and down into a dome. That was me last weekend, a far cry from when I faced my first mound of clay, six classes ago. That first day, it seemed I […]
It’s a few days after Valentine’s Day and I thought it would be the perfect time to share my intention for 2021. It is to DO WHAT IS LOVING. In a book I’m reading now called Writing Down the Bones, the author emphasizes over and over again that you learn to write by writing. In […]
A few days ago, Instagram alerted me that I had started training to be a life coach six years ago. I was so surprised that it had been that long. I still remember our four-day retreat in California that kicked off the Courageous Living Coaching Certification. I had never formally coached anyone in my life […]
When I first started my coaching business full-time, the days felt like they were just bleeding into each other since I was working from home. I’m sure you know the feeling after almost a year in quarantine. Raise your hand if you’ve asked, “what day is it today?” at least once during the last 11 months. […]
It’s half past midnight, two nights before the new year. For the past week, I’ve been wracking my brains on what to write as we finally say goodbye to 2020 and with relief and gentle hope step tentatively into 2021. I grab a book off my coffee table (it’s Cheryl Strayed’s Brave Enough), randomly flip to […]
