When you think about accepting yourself as you are — really accepting yourself — what does that bring up for you? Over the years women have been told me they are afraid of accepting themselves because that means they will never improve. They say, Well, if I accept myself as I am, aren’t I just … Read more
I am allergic to someone trying to fix me. I can feel it from miles away. It exists somewhere on the spectrum of the discomfort of wearing a scratchy wool sweater over your naked skin to the violence of being dismissed when when you are at your most vulnerable. It starts like this. I spill … Read more
You need in layers depending on what you allow yourself or what you have been taught is available to need. A glass of water, a quick walk around the neighborhood and then back to work. The needs that are on the surface, easily accessible to your mind as you struggle to connect something tangible with … Read more
After the events in Charlottesville this past weekend there are many of us who are desperately wanting to do something. To say the right thing or take the right action or put our hearts forward in some sort of meaningful way as we struggle with the implications of what we’ve witnessed. Over the last couple … Read more
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. {Edwin Osgood Grover} You are only one, but you are an important one. You are the leader of … Read more