What Kind of Eggs You Like + Who You (Really) Are

Open scene: Julia Roberts sits in front of a table of twenty plates, each laden with a different type of egg dish – scrambled eggs, omlettes, poached – trying to decide what type of eggs she likes. The premise is this: She doesn’t know what kind of eggs she likes outside of her relationships, thereby … Read more

Becoming a Detective to Your Own Experience

I remember, very clearly, a time when I realized this: I don’t even know what I like. I knew what other people liked. I knew what the people in my life preferred. I knew how to do it so that I got an A. I knew what the right way to do things was. But … Read more

The Courage to Leap: Self-Employment

Since age 10, I have been many things. I have sold lemonade and painted seashells on my front lawn to tourists walking by. I have taught toddlers how to adeptly distinguish between red and blue, and count to ten. I have worked in restaurants: advancing fromĀ gutter girl, to dishwasher, to bus girl, to hostess, to … Read more

Self-Love + The Reality of Settling, Stagnation, or Giving Up

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been getting this message loud and clear: pare down and get to the technical, nitty gritty, applicable in REAL LIFE implications of self-love. I’ve had a lot of people asking me for clarity around this issue: If I love myself, utterly and unconditionally, am I giving up? Does … Read more

Feeling Resistance + (Sometimes) Doing it Anyway

You know what you’re supposed to do. We all do. Each and every one of us is packed to the gills with helpful advice. Why is it that we just can’t sink our teeth in to these habits or find any headway in cultivating our lives, the way we say that we want to? There … Read more