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Making It Real
I had yet another experience of making something public and feeling that power surge within myself because I’d authorized my courage to collide with my vulnerability. I was reminded of witnessing and...
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‘Tis the Season
I began with a new client today and she gave me a gift. She started her session by reading a poem to me – one that summed up why she was coming to coaching. It perfectly described the delicious energy...
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Are You Sure You’re Not Making a Mistake?
This is the question you will hear when you are about to disrupt yourself, says Whitney Johnson, so be forewarned. It will most likely come from well-wishers who are disguised as naysayers. And it will...
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Staring Life In The Eye
This past Mother’s Day, my beloved gave me a compliment. In my card, he wrote that he admired my way of staring life straight in the eye. I started to cry. Because I loved that he loved that about me....
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Ready Enough
In my last Touchstones newsletter, I likened the experience of May to standing on the high dive, mustering up the courage to finally take the plunge. The response to that newsletter was incredible. I’d...
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Lessons from the Boat
Okay, so to be clear…that’s not a picture of me in the boat. But after learning how to row this past month, and having found myself as part of an awesome boat of four women rowers, that picture...
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Trying To Be Born
I’ve missed you. I haven’t been out here at my blog since last November, and there’s been a little hole in me as a result. But it’s a hole I’ve created by design. On purpose. For a reason I’m just now...
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Intermission
Many years ago, I was pulled out of the corporate rat race very suddenly for a medical leave. Up until that day, I thought I had it goin’ on – I was feeling in the zone, spinning all my plates,...
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Winnowing
I slept horribly last night, and not for lack of trying. It happens when I’m approaching a creative jag, most commonly around the equinoxes in spring and fall. I know I’m not alone in this pattern – I...
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A Noble Goodbye
I’ve been thinking a lot about death these days. It’s not a totally unusual experience for me, especially now. This is, after all, the “waning” time of year – the season of the crone – where we put our...
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Authorizing Myself
I spent most of yesterday shopping for validation. I didn’t realize it at the time. But it’s so clear to me now. And embarrassing to admit, but we’re among friends here, right? So I’m just going to put...
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If You’re Stuck, Think Sappy Thoughts
I’ve come to thinking of this time of year as my “season of UN”. UNfinished. UNresolved. UNrelenting. UNruly. UNderestimate. UNder the weather. UNsure. Unprecedented. Undecided. It’s the time of year...
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An Entirely New Annex In Me
A while ago, I invited two trusted souls to my pirate ship to listen to me read aloud some of my writing. The idea was to create an experience for which I needed to write. Something. Anything, really....
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Sourcing As A Verb
I held my Spring SheSpeaks last Thursday night. Five women took the stage with me to share their stories on the topic of “Sourcing” to an enthusiastic, sold-out, full-house crowd. It was an amazing...
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Sourcing The Feminine
The following is a transcript from last week’s SheSpeaks, my evening of women’s storytelling. This particular piece was my second of the evening, and was told prior to Kate Davis’s story on The...
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Embracing The Thrash
Here’s a confession: I spent most of February and March (and some of January, truth be told) watching back-to-back episodes of Parenthood on Netflix. It was embarrassing – I watched 5 seasons that each...
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Going To My Happy Place
The following is the transcript from my final piece of story from SheSpeaks, my evening of women’s storytelling 5.8.14, and set the stage for Donna Desilet’s story: Salty Tears, Salty Sea. I want to...
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Small Mirrors
This past Mother’s Day, my littlest son crawled into bed with me in the morning with a big grin, ready to finally give me the gift he’d been waiting a six-year-old’s version of forever to give me.In...
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Sourcing New Stories
I’ve been playing around with the idea of our stories as a source – and how the things we tell ourselves ABOUT ourselves can guide us…but only up to a point. My most recent thought about this is that...
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Actively Disrupting Normal
If I had a file folder in my office labeled “BIG DOINS” it would be bursting at the seams right about now. Whitney Johnson calls what I’m doing “disrupting myself”. That sounds about right. I first...
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