pictured: Amanda Blake, author of Your Body is Your Brain. I love ideas. I love interesting conversations. And I’ve been learning that...

What we are not aware of, we cannot change. Once we become aware, then change is possible. And we often don’t realize the blind spots we...

Cellists practice for thousands of hours. Infielders practice scooping up grounders over and over. Paramedics practice when they will do...

Last week in my post I talked about the Interstitial Spaces where salmon lay their eggs. What are those spaces in our lives where new...

What happens when we don’t have space in our lives for something new to be born? About fifteen years ago I was working for a local...

In these times that we are in it can feel like the topsoil of our lives is getting thinner and thinner. And yet sometimes we try to just...

"When we truly open our hearts to each other, there is no burden too heavy for us to carry together, there is no pain too deep for us to...

As every therapist will tell you, healing involves discomfort - but so does refusing to heal. And, over time, refusing to heal is always...

Have you ever said to yourself "If I could only add one more day to my week" ... or "If I only had more time." Today I want to explore...

Resilience is a word that is getting a lot of airtime lately. (In fact, Susan Howlett and I are designing and facilitating a course for...

There is a space between stimulus and response. And in that space lies our freedom and growth. - Viktor Frankl (author and concentration...

(Photo - If apples didn't let go of trees, how would we eat them?) I am in the season of a big transition. I am taking our daughter to...

(pictured above: Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP - therapist and author of "My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to...

Do you get caught up in the What ifs of worry? What if I can't get everything done? What if our society falls apart? What if my child...

(pictured above - Dr. Natalie Nixon - Author of a NEW (just published last week) important book, "The Creativity Leap") Her work can be...

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful...

When you slow down to imagine what's possible, when you give yourself permission to dream, where do you see yourself in five years? What...

.....some deep breaths. I'll join you.... .... I'm writing this at 7am on a Friday morning in my home in Bellingham, Washington. As I...

I invite you to take a few moments for some deep breaths. I'll join you.... .... Three weeks ago, I woke up on a Saturday morning and my...

I invite you to take a deep breath. Really. Take a minute or less for a deep breath. I'll join you. That's how I'm starting everything I...