Last weekend, I was in magical Ojai CA to lead our annual women’s retreat. Each year, I look forward to stepping foot onto this sacred property. I immediately feel emotionally and mentally lighter when we pull up the drive way.

I could go on and on about the space, the perfection of the group that gathered and the healing power of nature...yet the moment that continues to stick with me occurred during our evening breathing workshop with the gifted Melodee Solomon.

I was excited for the experience as I have worked with Melodee before. I knew that...

The work that I do with my business + personal development clients is based around Values Based Leading & Learning. Simply put, bringing daily awareness to what you moves you at your core and then aligning your intentions, words and actions to them.

Each day, we are pulled in numerous directions and are surrounded with feedback on how to live and how to be. Honing in on our values and examining how they show up (or don’t) in our lives is a key to happiness. It is a tool to eliminate the “shoulds” and instead lean into what fuels you and gives yo...

Recently I took a mental & emotional health day. I had been feeling a need for space. To step away from the doing and just see what clarity I would receive about my work if I gave myself the space to reflect on it versus bury my head in it.

The plan was simple…don’t do anything that was work related. Yet that morning as I packed my bag for the day, I found myself including my business essentials: laptop, notebook, chargers. With a whole day of non-doing ahead, I felt anxious. If I gave myself this day to step away, how do I make it amazing? What...

Looking back at this time in my life, I know that my night time chats with McKenna will stick out in my memory. As we lie her bed, one of us asks the question, “what should we talk about tonight?” It ranges from conversations about why bees sting, to why she is going to marry her best friend and if she can have chocolate for breakfast. I am always amazed by her curiosity. She is inquisitive versus fearful when we talk about subjects like death. She was delighted when she both vowed to reincarnate as animals. Her a cat and me an owl and we would...

The title of @jennyblake latest podcast caught my eye, "Embracing the In-Between." As she describes it, it's the space in which we are given the chance to rest, reset, and recharge before moving into our next phase. As someone who is currently floating in the space, I would add on...a chance to recondition, reorganize and reframe. 

As we transition (from a job, a relationship, old patterns, a state of mind) towards our next way of being and doing, this in-between state is crucial. A pause in which to reflect on who we are in the right...

“Let’s sell all of our things and move to Costa Rica.”

I have heard variations of this statement a lot the last two months from clients. My response is always a wide, compassionate & knowing smile because I can relate.

We live in a world that encourages us to always be on. And if you have chosen to be in a personal or professional role of service to others, this can be extra depleting. Being the consistent, safe and trustworthy person for others requires equal attention back to self. Yet, as AmyAnn Cadwell writes in the Good Trade, “most of us ar...

As a lover of goal setting & manifesting, I have had bouts of feeling like a failure that I have not completed my 2019 vision board yet.

It is not that I don’t know what I want for this year, rather my struggle has been clearly identifying what I don’t want this year.

I am also of lover of saying YES. Sometimes before the full question is even asked. It’s a combination of highly valuing connection mixed with a dose of FOMO.

This instinctual YES has served me well over the years. I have been afforded amazing opportunities, have met incredibly inter...

The last few weeks I have been riding the struggle bus. I wasn't surprised by it, it was a familiar feeling that finds it way to me every November. A mix of wanting to slow down, to process, to release, to rest and an overwhelming feeling that I should not. A need to keep going, creating, pushing, doing. An underlying sense of not deserving to stop.

This all translated to me not returning calls to close friends, a palpable energy of unease and restless nights trying to will myself into action. The two week battle in my brain wouldn't quit, so my...

I convinced Rob a few years back to humor me and start creating vision boards at the beginning of each year. It has been so fun to watch his delight as these vision boards backed by thoughtful conversation and heartfelt wishing have brought our goals to reality. 

Moving back home to Denver had been a light conversation for the last few years. Yes, we felt that moving back at some point would be the right move but never held tight to the when. This city peeked its way onto our boards over the last 3 years...a picture of some mountains or a family...

Like a lot of moms out there, I have spent my past few months (or years) functioning on little sleep. The smallest has found the hours of midnight & four a.m. his favorites for small talk, snuggles and high pitched screams. Between the sleepless nights and a rewarding yet full work schedule, I have been pondering how I can continue doing what I love to do with such little energy. 

One night, rocking him to sleep, my eyes filled with tears. I asked in the dark for anyone who would listen for strength, for patience, for light, for energy, for peac...