Sensitive Souls: Understanding Your Place in the Neurodiversity Puzzle
Do you ever feel like you're tuned into the world on a deeper level than most? Like you're the one who'll catch the slight shift in a friend's smile or find yourself needing a quiet moment after the hustle and bustle of a busy store? If you're nodding along, you might...
Please Read if You Are Going Through a Hard Time
This is for all the people out there who are having a hard time right now. This is for all the people right now that don’t feel like they are at the inspirational part of their life story, they’re in the fire swamp battling the ROUSes. This is for all the people that are finding it challenging to wake up each day and do the basic things they need to do…
This email almost sent me in a tailspin
The term “shadow work” has been everywhere lately. But what is it really? I think of shadow work in terms of healing and clearing the way for better spiritual, emotional and intuitive connections. Shadow work uses strategies or tools to look at the parts of ourselves...
Compassion is the first step
“Before we can be with one another we have to learn to grieve with one another” - Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. At the time, he was speaking about the conflict between the Israelis and the...
Do you know how to be proud of yourself?
The other day, my mentor asked me, “Are you proud of yourself?” I had just finished running my new course, Unconventional Tools for Healing, for the first time and was telling her how pleased I was to get some really lovely feedback from the participants. I stopped...
The Simple Buddhist Practice That Transformed My Relationship With My Narcissistic Parent
I was a young woman trying to figure out how to have a decent relationship with mom – so I could have someone in my life who could support me, love me, and help me figure out the turbulent transitions of young adulthood. I hadn’t yet realized that my mom was unable to do these things for me due to her mental health issues, and I was still trying to think of ways that I could repair or improve our relationship…
The Most Important Relationship You’ll Ever Have
We all have “inner critics” — that voice in our head that’s less than supportive, doubting, and sometimes even mean. The main problem with the inner critic is that it keeps us from having a healthy version of the most important relationship we’ll ever have — the relationship with ourselves…
What I’ve learned about growth mindset from binging British reality TV competitions
Lately, I’ve been working on unhooking from praise and criticism in how I evaluate myself and my work. I’ve been examining my own unhealthy relationship to praise and how I’ve chased “gold star stickers” as validation for most of my life. This started in elementary...