“Midway through the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the right way was lost.” – The Divine Comedy by Dante. The experience of noticing we’re on the wrong path in what feels like the wrong life, comes to almost all of us at some point.  Are you experiencing some […]

The vast majority of people who when asked, “How are you?” respond by saying, “I’m fine,” are lying. I have been thinking about this lately, especially because I have COVID again, and feel absolutely awful. I have been feeling scared, angry, sick, and worried that my lungs are never going to recover this time. And

I was reading the story of Buddha and his teachings, and was pleasantly surprised to find some parallels to tenets I use in life coaching. I’ll admit that I had little previous exposure to Buddha, and was certainly left wanting for more. I read about The Eightfold Path, or the Middle Way, choosing neither extreme

I recently had the privilege of going away for a girl’s weekend with eleven other amazing women. Some I knew fairly well, others I barely knew, and at least one I had not met before. The experience completely renewed my faith in womankind. Among the women were three training for an upcoming marathon. They were

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Relationships are like assignments for personal growth, therefore they are not always easy. They’re magnifying glasses through which we can view what does and does not work in how we’re relating to other people. Am I here

Difficult emotions, at times, can be exactly what we need to experience in order to truly heal, grow, and get to the other side of our suffering with meaningful lessons learned.  We fail at relationships, and then those failures propel us to more deeply understand what relationships are for, and how to master the art

There are times in life when our greatest challenge is to forgive ourselves. We pay a very high price for refusing to take responsibility for our experience: the price of not being able to change it. It is important to own our mistakes in order to learn from them.  Our brains typically go to self-hatred

We all long for happiness. The question is not, “What do we have to do in order to be happy?” The question is, “Who do we have to be in order to be happy?” How do we have to think? Forgiveness is an essential key to happiness. Sometimes the challenge is to forgive others, and

We all face times in our lives when the pain of existence seems too much to bear. For some of us, these experiences rarely happen, and when they do, the pain is relatively mild. But for others of us, excruciating pain can weigh us down and make the slightest comfort difficult to achieve. The pain

I recently came across this quote from Jack Gilbert, a poet from my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. “Be brave. Without bravery you will never be able to realize the vaulting scope of your own capacities. Without bravery, you will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, your life

It always surprises me that people will travel great distances to see the wonders of this world, while the marvel of self goes unnoticed, unappreciated, unexplored and undeveloped.  How you treat yourself is more crucial than how others treat you. If you are not willing to honor the marvelous creation you are, you are unlikely

Don’t fear the past. You are not what has happened to you. You are not what you have accomplished. You are not even who you are today. You are also who and what you are still capable of becoming. You are your realized and unrealized potential. Don’t let your past define you. When we define