This is a blog from earlier this summer, but the subject still applies. Enjoy! This is not the essay I had planned for this week. I planned to share more bits from my memoir draft. But instead illness had another plan in mind. I like to think that I’m partnering with creativity each week, yet […]
You hold it together all day-at work, at home, managing a thousand moving parts. But when one small thing goes wrong, you lose it or shut down. That’s your window of tolerance in action-the range where your nervous system can handle stress before flipping into fight, flight, or freeze. When you’re outside that window, logic […]
Have you ever experienced what Irvin Yalom calls “an awakening experience” – when you realize you are not really living? Have you ever woken from a dream state to see that you are just going through the motions? That your life is on autopilot? That you checked out somewhere along the way? Life during Lockdown […]
A few years ago, I was talking with a friend, discussing a book that we had both read. Our conversation took place in 2020, during the lockdown. It was a time when I was questioning my life, how I was living my days. In the book, an African proverb was quoted. “‘When death finds you, […]
What if I told you that self-care is a myth? That the way we think about it is all wrong. What if I told you that you do not need more self-care in your life? That the problem is deeper than that. That self-care is being used as a scapegoat. What if I told you […]
If you are an anxiously attached dater, then you may have heard comments like “you come on too strong,” or that “you are too much too soon” when it comes to dating, and you have likely had people simply stop responding to you via text (maybe it’s happened many times), or ghost you after a […]
Planning For Success: Helping Student Athletes Transition to College Entering college is an exciting time in a student’s life. It is an opportunity to strengthen independence, develop new friendships, and build skills and knowledge. College often invites a great deal of change, which can be both appealing and nerve-wracking to many students. Starting something unfamiliar […]
If you’re Gen X, you learned to fix your own bike, microwave your own dinner, and read the room fast. You grew up with latchkeys, loud news, and parents who equated love with providing. Now those same parents are aging… and old family dynamics can snap back like a rubber band. This isn’t about fixing […]
There’s this moment many parents of athletes know too well: your kid is doing all the right things. They’re going to practice. They’re watching film. They’re trying hard. But something’s… off. They’re snapping more easily. Their motivation has tanked. They come home from training mentally fried and emotionally flat. They’re still performing – but just […]
We cheer when they win. We clap when they hustle. We tell them how proud we are when they push through and give it everything they’ve got. But behind all that effort – behind the goals, the times, the stats, the highlight clips – is a whole person. And sometimes that person is struggling. It’s […]
