In a recent session with my coach, I gained a fresh understanding of the importance of curiosity and the value of not having answers. The story went something like this. I told my coach about a recent session with one of my clients – a…

Don’t let fear trick you into taking actions that don’t serve you… There are few things that can infect another person faster than a highly contagious virus, but fear tops them all. A recent experience illustrates the power of thought to trick people into misguided…

This series is inspired by the many people I’ve met or witnessed who are imprisoned by their fears around COVID-19. While fear is a part of being alive, it doesn’t have to be the dominant experience of our lives and the world around us. We…

No inner voices, lost and broken pieces, only me This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness. —Mary Oliver “Do you think you’re broken?” Her question hits me like a…

Third of three posts about the possibilities for finding wellbeing on the cancer journey In the Belly of the Whale The fear that you feel would not even exist but for your own creation of it. Being free does not come from awareness of your…

First of three posts about the possibilities for living with wellbeing on the cancer journey Wednesday On a gray afternoon in February, the doctor pokes a nitrile-gloved finger into the back of my mouth and finds a hard spot on my right tonsil. He tells…