I don't know if you knew this...but I was a flight attendant flying for United Airlines on September 11, 2001. I was based in Boston. When you are new to flying, you get sent everywhere and don't have a set place you fly. You just get told the night before or morning or where you were lucky enough to fly to. Being in Boston, we had these transcontinental flights that flew direct to Los Angeles. I was dating my husband, Dave, at the time, and I would call and BEG them to put me on that flight...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Ever felt like you know what you want to do, but you get stuck in taking that next step on the path ahead? I sometimes need clarity, or to walk through a fear door, or to just make the choice. When I am feeling this way or thinking these ways, do a few different things. I go outside - usually with movement or water - preferably both! I move breathe and clear the obstacles from the physical ~ mental-emotional ~ and soul pathways that feel sticky! I take a breath and listen in and connect to my...
25 days ago • 1 min read
What is so uniquely wonderful about you? How do you bring people together or demonstrate kindness? How do you use your unique gifts in service to your family and your community? Reader, take a moment and explore your answers to one or all of these questions. Smile to yourself as you give yourself a hug or some gratitude for those gifts that are uniquely yours!!! Bonus: please consider what you want to cultivate more of or how you can put those gifts out into the world (if you aren’t already...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
W.I.N. = What's important now Reader, I want to say that this is a game changer for me. In the first few moments of me starting my day - usually at the end of a 5+ minute meditation / mindfulness session - I ask myself this question, "What's important now?" This quiet space of time allows my intuition and my inner higher self have some important things to say before all the other entities (kids, partner, dog, phone messages, to do list...) have a vote! Sometimes it's a priority for my health...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
After I had a great mother-daughter chat with my mama - thanks mom! 😘- I reflected on how forgiving ourselves is super important when giving ourselves compassion. Dr. Daniel Siegel (an author and pioneer in interpersonal neurobiology and attachment science) has a key quote on forgiveness: "Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.” This quote emphasizes that forgiveness isn't about accepting past actions, but rather about letting go of the illusion that the past can be changed....
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader - have you ever felt like gosh, I wish I wasn't making this mistake - other people have probably figured it out - wtf how am I here again / feeling this way again / not gotten my life ___ way by now...and the list goes on about our frustrations... I am asking and sending love for you to lean into your self compassion again. Whatever emotion / situation / challenge in your life —- know that someone else HAS felt and experienced this before. This isn’t to minimize your experience it...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Ever wonder "how did I get down the rabbit hole of _______ situation?" Whether that's our reaction to a situation, a plan of how our day was going to go - and then it doesn't go down that way at all, or the way you talk to yourself when you make a sub-optimal choice... Well, Reader, I am here to say I have been to all these fun real places in my body, mind, and spirit and my favorite - and super unhelpful and usual - response is anger. Not like slow simmering stuff but like dragon breathing...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hellooooo Reader! Reaching out to share how and why I'm a healer and a helper. When I sit down with my higher self and check in with - the "why am I here" and "what's the most important thing for me" questions....I get the "you are here to help people heal" and "family is the most important thing" answers. My two answers: 1. How can I stay present and loving and joyful with my boys AND 2. How to help my clients embody the health of their whole self Your whole embodied beautiful self is your...
3 months ago • 1 min read
I was recently listening to a friend tell me about her "bad" shoulders and why she doesn't swim or do a lot of physical activity. After this conversation, I really wanted to tell her and everybody that NO PART OF YOU IS EVER BAD! Let's save the descriptor of bad to describe food, or something not alive, okay, Reader! Our words are so important. What we say to ourselves, what we tell ourselves in our heads...it all adds up and can either catapult us to greatness OR keep us where we are (which...
3 months ago • 1 min read