We resist change even when we ache for it
Change, Transition and The 90-Day Action Cycle Change can be announced in a single meeting. The transition inside each of us keeps its own time. What I watched happen in a room of women leaders this week. If change is the river, the harder question is how we cross it. This week I facilitated a […]
You don’t have to blow anything up
I’ve reached the age — past the half-century mark — where the invitations have quietly changed shape. There were years of weddings, then years of christenings and significant birthdays. Now, more often, it’s a funeral. Or the news of one. People my own age. Sometimes younger. You start to notice the ratio shifting, and you […]
Something in you is ripening
It’s the first week of June and on my evening walk I stopped at a tree I pass most days without really seeing it. The blossom is long gone now, and in its place are small, hard, green fruits — no bigger than a marble. Sour, unready, easy to overlook. And it struck me, standing […]
Hot, restless, and not sleeping? It’s not just 30 degrees
It’s too hot to think straight, isn’t it. The hottest May on record, as it turns out — and the other night the temperature never even dropped below twenty-one degrees. No wonder none of us is sleeping. Hot, bothered, faintly irritable for no good reason. A few degrees too many and suddenly nobody’s quite themselves. […]
Why the state of your heart may shape the quality of your thinking
The heart has a brain. And it’s been leading yours. You know the moments. The decision you made fast and regretted slowly. The room you walked into already somewhere else. The Sunday evening that arrives with weight and no name. That is not a performance problem. It is a disconnection — from the part of […]
Don’t Die From Something Stupid
About a month ago, I went to see a naturopath. About ten minutes in, she looked at me and asked quite calmly: “Do you know what your blood pressure is?” I didn’t. Now. I am a yoga teacher. I have spent years guiding people to breathe, to listen to their bodies, to notice what’s happening […]
Is this it?
I was walking in the park earlier this week when I stopped walking. Not because anything dramatic happened. Just because something landed in a particular way and I needed a moment with it. I was listening to The Soul’s Code by James Hillman. He was talking about the daimon — the ancient Greek idea that […]
What if nothing in your life had to pretend anymore?
You saw the photographs. Maybe you felt something — that brief catch in the chest, the sheer scale of it landing all at once. The busyness going quiet for just a moment. Then you moved on with your day. But first — a detail many people probably scrolled straight past. The crew named their spacecraft […]
The part of you that won’t go where you want to go
You can know exactly where you want to go — and still not go. Or you get there briefly, only to find yourself pulled back. Back into the same patterns. The same delays. The same overthinking. The same version of life you already know you’ve outgrown. We usually explain this in practical terms. Timing. Confidence. […]
The Day 90% of Women Went on Strike — and Why Women Thriving Still Isn’t Finished
International Women’s Day didn’t begin with brunch and flowers. It was born in 1911, in the aftermath of women marching for the right to vote, to work without being exploited, and to be seen as something other than an afterthought in the running of the world. Over a million women took to the streets across […]