The Who in You!
I have learned a secret about achieving goals in my ten years of being a life and career coach. Before you can determine what your [...]
October 2016
September 2016
The Mindful Maybe
If you are a woman who has a hard time saying no, you often feel overcommitted or overwhelmed and have lost track of your own needs, please read this [...]
August 2016
Needs versus Strategies
I work with many busy, overwhelmed women. They are juggling parenting, creative ventures, business ideas, careers, relationships, community involvement and their own self care, or [...]
June 2016
The Busy Epidemic
Last month as the school year was winding down, my nine-year-old son made a clear and urgent request: "Not too much summer camp." He was [...]
May 2016
Create lasting change, from the inside out!
In life and career coaching, we have an important tool that I will simply call Consciousness. The more aware and clear we are about the [...]
December 2015
Happy Winter Solstice!
This deep, dark time of year, especially in Portland Oregon, many of my life coaching clients are saying things like: I feel more tired; why [...]
September 2015
What story are you telling yourself?
A recent article about the wise and beloved (to me) Brené Brown referred to her most helpful "life hack" for relationships: "If I could give [...]
April 2015
Lay your burden down!
Have you heard the story of the two monks and the heavy load? It is Zen tale passed down for centuries in Buddhist teachings. One [...]
March 2015
You aren’t stuck!
Do you ever find yourself fooled into believing that answers should come to you right away? In this convenience and consumer oriented culture with the [...]
February 2015
Shine a light into the distortions!
One of the things that I love best about life coaching is the way the inquiry process shines the light of awareness into our habits, [...]