Poetry is proof that humans exist. Where else could poems come from? Many of you know that I find poetry to be a luminous guide and...

"...it is not half so important to know as to feel." - Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder If you can, pick up a copy of this book by...

While you may have heard this question before, from some other place, I credit my colleague, Jim Anderson, for this beautiful (and often...

"I heard someone say once, 'I'd rather look at a painting of a sky any day than the sky.' I have to say that's one of the more...

“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.” - Maya Angelou Oh, to greet each day with awe, honoring the vitality in...

My jazz teacher, Paul Pieper, used this term and I liked it. When a musician is doing an improv solo, "light it up" means to play a solo...

Full credit for this sticky mantra Shut Up. Suit Up. Show Up goes to Dr. James Hollis, prolific Jungian writer, therapist, and lecturer....

I have put off blogging for years. So many wonderful thought leaders are blogging that I am not sure I believe that I have anything ...

I’ve never taken much concentrated time off. I’ve done short vacations and short retreats. And, in the last year or two I have heard ...

Are you a worrier? Do things that bother you keep revisiting you? Does your brain seem to have a mind of its own? In recent conversations...

Purging my office has been the work of the week. I started in one corner, found amazing little treasures that I remembered once I saw...

A client emailed me to ask for book suggestions for a leader who felt her team was stagnant. I suggested Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a...

In a recent workshop that laid out models for team coaching and included many details about the process of coaching leadership teams, ...

You are remarkable, and maybe you know that, maybe you don’t. We all have the potential to feel remarkable, and one of the best ways to...

“When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”...

It has been a fabulous month of retreating into my own history and vibrant life. As someone who has been hawking the value of a retreat ...

November 29, 2014. “This is Fairfax Hospital ER.  Your husband has had a bicycle accident and is very confused.” This is the call that...

Personally, turning corners is always welcome. It always means that whatever I’ve been struggling with – be it how to focus my work, ...

…of your wholeness. Yes, your wholeness. I see this again and again. The client who has to have everything be perfect. The colleague who...

One of my clients has a new, expansive role, and with that, a new team that is an amalgam of folks who have known each other over time...