My Christmas tree is still bare. The belen is still in storage. The parol that needs to be decorated for my daughter’s school is still lying around naked. Even if it feels like I’m barely prepared for Christmas, my heart is filled with awe and gratitude: Awe that this is part of my job, writing letters to you every […]
Three weeks ago, I was at Write Away, the annual all-women writing and life coaching retreat I hold with my partners, authors Sam Sotto and Mina Esguerra. Every year, the overarching theme of the retreat is GIFT. When writers arrive, they are presented with goody bags stuffed to the gills with books, journals, stationery, postcards […]
I recently asked a client: What are you doing right? One of the worst habits is self-criticism. It is easier to find what’s wrong, where you’re falling short, where you’re less-than than it is to look at how wonderful you and your life already are. In your need to overachieve, be productive and accomplish results, you […]
I came up with this prompt for my annual 31-day journaling challenge. Then I couldn’t get it out of my head. My 18-year-old self would be surprised at who I am today. She might not recognize me. I believe she would have been prouder of the woman I was 10 years ago, newly pregnant, riding […]
There’s a popular coaching tool called the Wheel of Life. You take a look at the different areas of your life and rank your satisfaction with them from 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest). It’s a tool I rarely use because I think it’s such a cliché (I like […]
Like 44 million people around the world, I tuned into the final season of Game of Thrones. I know it received a lot of mixed reviews but I actually enjoyed it. My favorite episode was “The Long Night,” the third and darkest one, literally, as I had to up the brightness settings on my TV […]
