Home is a sanctuary. Home is “where the heart is”. It’s taken a while for me to start treating my home as an extension of me, versus a model of what I’ve been told a home should be. Let me share that journey with you. 

Here I talk about honor, women as property, and the power of being your own knight in shining armor. 

I’m currently listening to Viola Davis’ memoir. There are two lines that hit my core. Here I’ll share them both with you. 

Marriage is an adventure! There are going to be beautiful bits and hard bits. If you lean into the hard parts together, there will be expansion and growth on the other side. For my nieces’ recent wedding card, my husband and I shared ten lessons we’ve learned from 10 years of marriage. Maybe these will help you as well.

If you’re feeling in a rut in an area of your life, listen to this episode for an invitation. In this episode, I’ll share an invitation that might help you free yourself from your rut. 

The purpose of life is simple to say, but hard to do. It’s to live authentically. To show up in the world as the fullness of you, regardless of what situation you’re in or who you’re around. Life is about identifying who you are, and then bravely living as you each day. 

People pleasing -you can use that same muscle to delight YOU. It’s that part of you that KNOWs how to delight others. But that part was never meant to only be turned outward. If it’s been a long time since you let it look inward, you might have a hard time at first understanding what you want. But all of that information is there, you just need to give the pleasing part permission to turn its gaze inside. Saying yes when you want to say no is a habit like any other. Start practicing saying yes to yourself - you are the gatekeeper of your experience and energy, no one else is. 

In a million different ways I forfeited my voice. It wasn’t until I left the corporate world that I truly felt the cumulative impact of how much my voice was no longer mine. Here I share how that happened, and how I’m reclaiming my voice. 

A tree growing through cement might wish it was planted in a field. But it’s the pushing through the cement that makes it what it is, the shape it is, the strength it is. The tree planted in the field will have its own struggles. You cannot avoid struggle in life, but you can choose how you view it. You can refuse to accept the hand you were dealt, and cause more anxiety by refusing reality, or you can view your challenges as a gift.

The way dogs is a good lesson for human interaction. Social play between dogs is often prolonged by role reversal, in which larger, stronger or generally more aggressive dogs momentarily perform behavior more typical of smaller, weaker or more timid animals, in order to extend the play. Their objective is to continue playing, their objective is not to win. What if during interpersonal arguments our objective was to extend connection, not win? How would that change conflict?