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PRIORITIZING MATTERS OF THE HEART

PRIORITIZING MATTERS OF THE HEART

by | Mar 26, 2023 | Blog

I’m off to the UK today for my aunt’s funeral.  This is on the heels of unexpectedly losing my Father, her only sibling, in August and placing both my parents in a nursing home last April.  My mother is no longer compos mentis so that, too, feels a...
All is in the Small

All is in the Small

by | Mar 14, 2023 | Blog

It’s March.  And a Full Moon.   This time should mark the beginning of the year. And yet, in 45 BC Julius Caesar implemented the “Julian calendar” moving it from March 1st to January 1st.  We’ve been stuck celebrating beginnings in the dead of winter when we naturally...
WHEN TO PERSIST and WHEN TO CHANGE

WHEN TO PERSIST and WHEN TO CHANGE

by | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog

I stayed with my ex-husband for 16 years and my ex-boyfriend for 8. I taught K-12, undergraduate and graduate students for 32 years. I’ve had a coaching business for the last 12. There comes a moment where one decides to stay with it and persist and another moment...
ARE YOU HIGHLY SENSITIVE?

ARE YOU HIGHLY SENSITIVE?

by | Mar 5, 2023 | Blog

Until 2016 I did not know I there was a nomenclature to my lived experience. I believed myself to be different, odd, out of step. In the ’90’s research on high sensitivity as an innate trait was made mainstream by Dr. Elaine Aron, determining that 20% of...