Our personal growth doesn’t progress in a linear, predictable upwards fashion. It ebbs and flows. It meanders around corners and down alleyways. Some days it’s supercharged and we feel like we are on top of the world. Other days, we can’t seem to find the...
As this year draws to a close, and the winter solstice is upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere, I find myself reflecting on what it’s like to welcome in the darkest day of the year. For me, winter is a time of going inward, of hibernating, of slowing down. I...
Our survival brains have a built-in negativity bias because - evolutionarily speaking - it’s much better to think that something is a snake, and to jump out of the way only to discover that it’s a vine on your path, than to assume it’s a vine, and be bitten by a...
There is nothing more delightful than unexpected acts of kindness. Like when I woke up in the dead of winter after a snow storm, begrudgingly pulled myself out of bed to go and shovel my driveway, only to discover that my neighbor had already taken care of it for...
Does your nervous-system sometimes get so flooded that it’s hard to stay present to yourself and others? Do you notice yourself habitually converting your feelings into thoughts, trying to classify and analyze them instead of just feeling them? Would you like to widen...