We talk so much about balance these days--- family and work, self-care and care for others, rest and productivity. Have you noticed that it's ridiculously challenging to stay in balance for any length of time? One minute we're in balance, then out of balance,...

  My daughter and I were having one of our regularly scheduled fights about her phone use. Texting, instagram, snapchat---all vehicles that rob her attention from more meaningful ways of connecting. Yet, the more I demanded and threated, the more tenaciously she...

  For years, I've courted the belief, "if only I had XYZ" or "if only he/she/they would act differently" (which usually meant act the way I wanted them to act), then I could relax. Then I can really be happy.   It's an easy trap to think that we can't really...

When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, rest. When you criticize yourself, love yourself more. Somewhere along the line, many of us, myself included, bought the belief that putting ourselves down leads to self-improvement. Or, that self-criticism keeps us in...

This is the second of a three part installation of Lessons I Learned from Cinderella. Lesson #2: Don't Waste Your Energy "The greatest risk any of us can take: to be seen for who we truly are" concludes the narrator in one of the final scenes of Cinderella (2015)....