The way our modern workplaces are hiring, upskilling, optimizing, and pressuring simply isn’t working. With burnout and distress on the rise, here are a few things I’m talking about with …
Three Tools for Always-on Anxiety
Not sure about you, but I recently realized I’m carrying a bag-full-of-low-level-worry around pretty much all the time these days. And, that is coming from someone who doesn’t watch the …
Claim Your Knowing
Throughout our life, it’s likely we’ve sensed what was right and true for us. I call this our ‘knowing’. I’ve always known I will write a book, for example. While …
Light from a different angle
He told me a story of a photographer’s gift. “The light is always better in the morning.” You’ll see [things] differently. The [object] doesn’t change. The direction of the light, …
Being seen
Think of a time you felt truly seen. When you received a moment, a word, a noticing that cut through the noise. Maybe it landed in a way that broke …
Healing
Weeks ago I collided with something. I’m not sure what it was. I hadn’t even noticed Until I saw the telltale trail. The signs of a wound. I checked the …
What are you tolerating?
We can work around a lot of things, and still make it work, can’t we? This week a friend and I caught ourselves laughing at how much bad behavior around …
Illusions
Beautiful in its red plumage, unaware. We watched in shock as it moved from the magnolia tree and flew straight towards the window. With certainty, it used its beak to …
Polished
A few years ago, my dad’s sister sent him a trophy their father had earned in 1929. It was deeply tarnished. The black layer had crept like lichen over every …
The New Grad’s Guide to Finding Your Path
We’re about a month away from college graduation across the United States. So far, students have focused on getting enough of the right credits to graduate. They’ve chosen a major …