Is life sending you a wake-up call?
I was 34 and living just outside Barcelona as an expat on an international assignment with my husband. From the outside, it looked like I had everything a girl could ever want. A loving husband. An amazing job. A jet-setter life. A killer bod. But on the inside, things looked a lot different. You see, […]
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Is it time to reinvent yourself? This might help you decide.
I love films that make me contemplate life and feel more deeply. My husband just shared with me a short (16’) documentary (embedded above) called simply, “Slomo.” If you haven’t seen it, please do yourself a favor and take the time to do so. I often think about how to improve my life – usually […]
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Thinking of leaving? Think about this first.
So I get a lot of questions about how to make various decisions, but the one I get most frequently is some form of Should I Stay or Go? Whether it’s your job, your home, or your partner, you will probably be faced with this decision sometime in your life. Maybe you are contemplating it […]
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Bitch-slapped by the universe
As you may know from my recent post, I have been struggling with a lot of pain in my hips for the past few months, which has been inconvenient and enlightening at the same time. Okay, mostly inconvenient. And hellish. But one thing I am grateful for is that it has put a spotlight on […]
Read MorePain is a spiritual teacher…AND a bitch!
As some of you may already know, I have been experiencing pain in both my hips over the past few months. So far, I have approached this experience with a conscious choice to allow my body to heal itself, which has worked for me in the past. With the help of acupuncture, I was able […]
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What caused me to finally answer my wake-up call
I had finally admitted the truth to myself: I didn’t want to be a chemical engineer anymore. I didn’t want to work for a chemical company anymore. I had kind of admitted it to my husband, but he was not on board – at all. I had spent the last 3 years trying to bring […]
Read MoreHow to relax when you are living in limbo
I spoke yesterday to a dear friend and we were talking about how it feels like we are living in limbo. How sometimes it feels that our destiny is not our own, and we are at the mercy of waiting for someone else to decide, for something to happen, for clarity to come. How can […]
Read MoreDo you need a sabbatical?
I couldn’t believe it had happened to me. I had chased my dream job all the way to San Francisco, California – the job I had been dreaming about FOR YEARS. I had found success, as I had always defined it – getting paid full time to do coaching. My dream came true! And yet. […]
Read MoreMy Truth on Aging
I decided to write this post because most people think I am WAY younger than I am. Which is very nice. However, it also perpetuates a tiny kind of lie that I am participating in, and would like to cease. This feels risky to me, to share my honest thoughts and experience around my aging […]
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