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Stretching Again
I had coffee with a friend from graduate school on Monday who I hadn't seen in 25 years. After I got him up to speed (my husband's death,...
Dec 20, 2023
Canned Response or Inspirational One, Your Choice.
When we are in a life transition, it's normal to feel confusion. After a job change, a kid moves out, a relationship ends or someone...
Dec 5, 2023
What's In Your Water?
You don’t get that from me, is something my mother says when I respond to a thorny challenge with optimism. I’ve always been a glass...
Nov 28, 2023
What Day Is It? Ask Your Grief.
Tomorrow is my 53rd birthday, but I didn’t know that until yesterday. I was coaching my client group and I mentioned that it’s my...
Nov 24, 2023
Anxious Today? Fabulous!
I am feeling super anxious today! You?! Fabulous! There might be some gold in our day yet! Anxiety doesn’t feel all that great, but...
Nov 16, 2023
A Little Risky
Failure, in our culture portends failure, dead ends, bankruptcy. 🎶 Dun dun dun …..🙀 But artists know that failure is an essential part...
Nov 7, 2023
Throw Your Own Party!
Every year around this time I've wondered why parents of school aged children everywhere aren't thrown a party. Why aren't the streets...
Oct 28, 2023
Synchronicities Benefit From Priming.
I’m experiencing some major synchronicities this week. Not the kind that "strike" like luck, but the kind that land deep in our soul and...
Oct 24, 2023
Magic Making
There is a kind of YES that is critical to our growth. It's the yes we say when we are ready to open ourselves up TO OURSELVES. YES! I...
Oct 21, 2023
Bouncy Ball
Do you feel like a bouncing ball? Up one week, down the next? That’s how a client explained how she felt to me this week. I get it. When...
Oct 20, 2023
Making Meaning
Can you find meaning in a brutal, uncertain and chaotic world? Can we even talk of meaning when we ourselves feel lost, alone and...
Oct 13, 2023
It's My Party
Every year around this time I've wondered why parents of school aged children everywhere aren't thrown a party. Why aren't the streets...
Sep 28, 2023
Being the Authority in Your Own Damn Life
Do you feel like the authority in your own life? Most of the time, in my experience, we do not. We doubt our gifts, we question our...
Sep 15, 2023
Sweat Pea
Yes, you. I am talking to you my sweet. Today I want you to know that I see you. You have such capacity for love, for delight in “the...
Sep 8, 2023
SAPPY (Sad + Happy)
I’m writing this 1 Degree Newsletter for the new friends who have joined this brave community of creative soulful souls, and for those...
Sep 3, 2023
Batter Down The Door
When grief knocks, facebook is a battering ram. Rising from bed amidst boxes and packing tape, it rose with me. Familiar grief. Here...
Aug 1, 2023
The Weight of Stuff
I grew up going to garage sales with my mom. She is an expert scanner. She would go to the junkiest garage sale and spot an antique or...
Jul 25, 2023
Create the Conditions for Transformation
I ate a lot of roughage this past weekend. I took a weekend course at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in western Massachusetts. ...
Jul 19, 2023
You Can't Have One Without The Other
Can you summon the tune to that old Frank Sinatra ditty 🎶You can’t have one without the other? 🎶 Sinatra was referring to love and...
Jul 5, 2023
Are You Your Future Self?
I feel a certain pride when my clients geek out on their "Future Self." So imagine my excitement when they were chatting about the recent...
Jul 4, 2023
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