Photo by Hin Bong Yeung on UnsplashWhat does it mean to keep your side of the street clean? It means being clear and self-responsible in your life and cleaning it up when you mess up. Dog owners in New York complained at first, then got used to scooping their dog’s...
Photo by Bart LaRue on UnsplashRecently, I had a conversation with a client about self-love. They weren’t clear on how to give themselves the love they were twisting themselves in knots to get from others. They wanted suggestions on how to strengthen their direct...
PhoenixWhen I rescued my first dog, Phoenix, in 2015, she was a traumatized 6-month-old gorgeous, gray bundle of fear. I was overwhelmed by her fear and she was overwhelmed by, well, everything. To this day, she loves dogs and is afraid of people. She tends to cower...
Photo by Ryan Moreno on UnsplashYou know how you’ve made room for yourself in your life to be creative? You’ve handled your self-defeating and self-critical voices ENOUGH to be able to sit down and make something you don’t hate and actually want to share with the...
Photo by Zdeněk Macháček on Unsplash Does your love interest keep having to jump through an increasingly complex series of hoops to prove themselves to you because you’re so slow to trust? Testing at the beginning helps you both see if it’s safe to go deeper. But at...
Photo by Francisco Gonzalez on UnsplashMost of us who struggle with self-doubt think it’s a problem that needs to be fixed. It’s not. Self-doubt is a symptom, not the disease. Like a runny nose, self-doubt arises to get your attention about a deeper imbalance. In the...
Photo by Charles 🇵🇭 on Unsplash As I work with my clients, I’ve been thinking a lot about wounds. Specifically, the kind of core wounding that seeps through a lifetime, like oil through paper, forever staining it. Our life shapes itself around a wound like this,...
