Wherever you are right now, it’s okay. You’re okay. You’re doing the best you can. You make mistakes. You don’t need to have everything figured out. One moment, you’re able to give love from that big generous heart of yours. The next, you’re selfish and immature. I want to let you know that it’s okay […]
Five years ago, I left the company where I had worked for the last 16 years. To the outside world, it looked like a big leap of faith (I was asked over and over if I was sure about what I was doing), but for me, it was the next natural step in my life. […]
Like most of you, I’ve watched “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” on Netflix with fascination. I saw a literal mountain of clothes get sorted into organized closets. I teared up during the heartbreaking episode when a wife had to say goodbye to her husband’s belongings. I cheered when a mom allowed her family to share […]
There’s something magical about ripping open the plastic covering your calendar or planner and seeing the year stretching in front of you unmarked, open and full of possibilities. A blank slate. This is it, you vow. This is my year…to become the person I want to be, to achieve my goals, find my purpose, write […]
The Most Thankful Thing is the title of a book I used to read to my daughter before bed. It never fails to move me to tears. In the book, the daughter was looking at her mom’s old scrapbook. “You’ve done so many things, mama!” The daughter exclaims. “In your whole long, long, long life, […]
This is my favorite journaling question. It makes its appearance in every volume of The Sunday Night Journal and it was a prompt in a Soul Writing workshop I recently conducted. It was a question that made the workshop attendees pause and look at who they were a year ago and acknowledge how far they’ve come […]
