Choosing to be a whole human being - a person who embraces multiple aspects of myself - has often felt challenging and uncomfortable. It has required me to calm the critical voice within, to listen more often to my body, to stay a lot longer with discomfort, and to be willing to accept imperfection. And while there are countless reasons to avoid these tensions, the rewards have been immense. I believe that our lives are richer when we make room for what brings us peace and energy. Too often we can find ourselves working toward an idealized version of ourselves and losing sight of who we genuinely want to be.
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Parenting & Leadership - A Letter to my Teenage Daughters
Within parenthood lies the opportunity to infuse kindness, love, respect, and generosity into our interactions, both in our own actions and through the lessons we impart to our children. It's a chance to actively participate in crafting the kind of world we envision. I hope that you, as a leader or as a parent, or as both, will more often acknowledge all that you practice and refine simply by trying to do the best that you can.
International Women's Day - the Golden Thread that Connects Us
I often imagine and feel an unbreakable golden thread that connects all women and girls…a thread that intertwines through each of us and carries with it our grace, dignity, and strength that we share as a collective. My strength is yours; my dignity is yours; and my grace is yours.
You Are Not an Imposter
We’ve created a label for a disorder that has been placed on an individual who is already trying very hard in what is most often a system that is not doing its best to create a culture of inclusion and belonging. Adding a label to what already feels like ‘less than’ or ‘not enough’ is deepening the injury to one human being and not dealing with the root causes. Each time I hear a client say that they have imposter syndrome I feel compelled to say – you are NOT an imposter.
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Uncertainty...the Unknown and the Imperfect
Most of us are grappling with uncertainty and in turn are also grappling with our responses to this uncertainty. My own response to uncertainty is a bit like “what do you mean it’s not going to go like that….it’s supposed to…that’s how I’d planned for it…” And while my intellectual self can acknowledge that we live in a time of ever-increasing uncertainty, my emotional and physical self usually take a bit longer to adapt.
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