A Transgender Woman’s Journey Toward Loving Her Body

This is a guest post written by the amazing Pace Smith, The Pathfinding Coach. I am so grateful to her for reaching out and sharing her story with us today.  Hi there! I’m Pace. I live in Portland, Oregon and I love it here. I’ve been married to an amazing woman named Kyeli for nine years, and … Read more

Restoration in Laughter, Tears & Sweat

A recipe for the restoration of the spirit. I find restoration in the strangest places. Tucked between the seats while I detail my car. Between honest laughter and bright tears. Relaxing along the floor of the incoming tide while my body surfs the waves like I did when I was small. At the back of … Read more

Praying At The Altar of Busy

I could have build my home here, on the precipice of frenetic action, riding the wave of my own utter exhaustion and the meager urge of stress hormones coursing through my veins. I could have build my home here. It was comfortable, believing that everything is an emergency. Believing, deeply, that my goodness hung in the … Read more

Teaching Myself to Ask for Help

Last September, I could feel myself shifting, growing. My business was growing, and my energy was changing. It felt as though my consciousness was being pulled out of my head and my ability to charge forward in spite of myself, and traveling down through my feet, into the ground beneath me. Traveling beneath the soil, … Read more

Ferocious Truth

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. {Rainer Maria Rilke} My heart beats out the rhythm: tell the truth tell the truth tell the truth. Tell the truth of who you are, of how you are.  Tell the truth about what you … Read more