I have been sharing a lot with friends, colleagues, and clients recently, the life giving importance I have found in being completely embedded in open community during this season of life. In short -- being deeply connected in relationships with others where I can be...
embed -- "fix firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass" (Oxford Language Dictionary) I chose that word intentionally, because connect didn't seem to accurately portray what I am getting at. Connecting to community seems categorically different than embedding oneself in...
Journaling has been an invaluable benefit to my life personally, and so many of the lives that I get to encounter in my therapy and executive coaching work. In this video I share briefly about why I want to encourage you to take up the practice. You can also check out...
"I'm not really the type of person who likes to journal." "I don't like to write, or put my thoughts onto paper." "I just don't have anything to write." These are pretty typical responses I hear from clients when I broach the subject of journaling as a practice. And I...
A decision I made several years back, was that if books that I was reading, kept referring to one author/thinker, etc., time and time again -- then I needed to go read that person. More than likely, this person would be the original source of much of the work others...
One of the ways that I have found to be helpful in working through anxiety, is what I refer to has anxious progression. In the fitness world it is often referred to as progressive overload. In terms of anxiety I like to think about the idea of taking things one is...
This podcast episode is a further exploration of the blog post, Anxious Progression One Day at a Time. In this episode I explore the concept of progressive overload in physical fitness, and how that same concept can be applied to working through anxiety -- mainly,...
I have always been a fan of breath work, especially in the way that it has not only been so helpful for my own life and the anxiety that I have struggled with -- but I have literally seen it change the people's lives that I work with. Breath work is integral to our...
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I'm definitely no expert on the topic of fasting, but I have been experimenting with it for a few years, and finally decided to do my...
At the beginning of each new year we tend to think about turning the page on the current year, setting some goals, and moving with energy and momentum towards the new year that awaits us. Though there is no magic with the turning of the calendar year, it does offer us...
