When Your Essential Self Speaks… Watch for the Magic

When Your Essential Self Speaks… Watch for the Magic

I don’t claim to know much, but this I know for sure: when I started doing nothing on a daily basis, magic started happening. This is the story of some magic. I was noodling on the idea of enrolling in Martha Beck’s life coach training. This wasn’t just partaking in...
When Your Essential Self Speaks… Don’t Freak Out

When Your Essential Self Speaks… Don’t Freak Out

How do you know if it’s your intuition or your lizard speaking to you? In an earlier post, I discussed rabbits. This week, it’s lizards. Soon we’ll have a zoo. Here’s how you know if it’s your lizard or your intuition speaking: The reptilian part of our...
When Your Essential Self Speaks… Chase the Rabbit

When Your Essential Self Speaks… Chase the Rabbit

Have you ever started to do something and then become distracted? An hour (or three) passes and you can’t remember what you were planning to do in the first place? That just happened. Sometimes, it’s just an ordinary diversion or procrastination technique. But...
This Is Home

This Is Home

When I retired from life on the hamster wheel, it didn’t take just a couple of boxes to pack the stuff. It took two men and a truck. My office furniture was Dad’s before he retired. It was comforting to have a piece of him around since work was where I got to know him...
Stepping Off the Hamster Wheel

Stepping Off the Hamster Wheel

The poor fellow caught in the wheel runs in a perpetual state of forward immobility. He is devoted to worshipping busy. I see many of us today in this same cycle. We almost believe it’s fulfilling, fun, and in line with our dreams: We are immersed in a career. We work...