Instant Gratification vs. Constant Gratification

When I work with women who have spend much of their life and money fixing themselves, I always feel it immediately in their energy. In moments I can almost slip it back on, because it was a feeling that I wore for so much of my life. It is the frantic, hopeful wanting – wanting … Read more

Finding Your Why

There are many days when I ask myself why I am doing what I am doing. Days when I want to give up. Days when I want to launch face first into a box of cupcakes. Days when I want to cry and beg someone else to fix it for me, pay for it for … Read more

Loving Your True Nature

Often when women come to work with me they are hungry for connection, for community. In our first session together, they describe a common feeling and fear :: I want to belong. I want to find my people. I want to know myself better. I want to feel safe to be who I really am. I … Read more

The Beautiful Art of Belonging to Ourselves

Make dinner. Pay the bills. Achieve the thing. Get the guy. Lose the last ten pounds. Pick up the kids. Take care of a friend. Do that one millionth thing that you said yes to – even when you desperately wanted to say no. Get the degree. Start the business. Figure it out. Show up. … Read more

The Stories That Stand Between Us & Belonging

The quiet truth: I’m a lot to handle.  I’m smart. I’m loud. I’m beautiful. I’m curvy. I’m wildly ambitious. I love like it’s my full-time job, which, it sort of is. I am a lot to handle.  I don’t hold back. I thrive in melodrama. I have a thing about other people living up to their potential. … Read more