Seeing ourselves through others’ eyes.
Several of my youngest clients are heading back to school in the next couple weeks. The topics we’ve discussed in our sessions have revolved around their class schedules and their friend groups and will they or won’t they like their teachers and who will they sit with at lunch and should they try out for […]
10 ways you’re not choosing love.
Darren and I met over 35 years ago. We dated each other in three different decades. And last month we celebrated our 5-year wedding anniversary. To say we have had an unconventional love story is an understatement. But, as I often tell people, it’s a pretty great story. In coaching about life, I end […]
Turning Strangers into Friends.
In the 5 years before Darren and I got married, I made only a couple trips a year out of my home state. Mostly to visit family. Mostly with my sisters. Which meant I had a lot of chances on those trips to talk with a lot of people I know really, really well. In […]
2000 hours and my Universal Truths.
I have had the incredible opportunity for two thousand hours now to sit across the screen from people who want to make progress in some area of their life. One definition of progress I love is “forward or onward movement toward a destination, to improve, to proceed, to advance, to make headway, to press on, […]
The Strengths of our Ancestors.
Last fall my sweet Mom and I had a conversation about family history. (Stick with me.) I did not necessarily get the genealogy bug, but I will admit that my ancestors have been on my mind much more often since my Dad passed away almost 5 years ago. I have a Mom and Dad […]
“which is fine…”
One of the things I hear most consistently from clients is a phrase so many of us use all the time. It’s the phrase … “which is fine…..” Saying it seems innocuous enough, and I bet most of us think we even mean it. Let me give you some (anonymous but not made […]
“You’ve been watching Sports Night on CSC.”
photo: touchstone pictures One of my very favorite TV shows of all time was the late 90s ABC dramedy called Sports Night. I am not a ‘sports fan’ in any real sense of the word. But I was a Josh Charles fan (he was one of the leads) and I would go on to be […]
Dad’s last words.
My dad died four and a half years ago at the age of 86 after an amazing, successful and storied life and a short, but ever-increasing bout with age-related dementia. It’s his birthday month and he has been on my mind. His death story – like that of so many people you probably […]
Little Lila and some wild Yeses
One of my nieces has three beautiful children. Very early one morning, when the two oldest were 6 years old and 4 years old and the youngest was a newborn, my niece was woken up to the musical sounds of “Who Let the Dogs Out, Who? Who?” blaring from the downstairs family room. She went […]
A Bouncing Boulder – and Emma Woodhouse.
When Darren was young, he spent a lot of time with his siblings at his favorite Grandma’s house, who lived close to them in their small southern California town. One such day his older sister and one of his older brothers were down at his Grandma’s creek and they started teasing him. Darren, the feisty […]
