Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
A friend reached out to me after a family member commented on her size and suggested she needed to increase her exercise. “I know I’ve gained a bit of weight,” my friend said to me, her words heavy with shame. Wait. Hold up a minute. Let me remind you of everything you ARE,I said to her and to anyone else…
Read More
New Year’s Eve has never been my favorite holiday. In fact, it’s typically been a tough one for me. I am suspended in the uncomfortable space between TOO MUCH (holiday splurge, anyone?) and NOT ENOUGH (unmet goals, anyone?). I typically feel this overwhelming pressure to begin a New Year overhaul (whether needed or not), put on a cute outfit that…
Read More
In a recent television interview, I was given forty-five seconds to share my story. When I shared the video clip with my online community, I was struck by the comment of a dear reader who had recently attended one of my speaking events. She wrote: “I wish you’d been given more time to share. It hurt a little that you had to…
Read More
“You can say what is, or fight for itClose your mind and take a riskYou can say ‘it’s mine’ and clench your fistOr see each other as a gift.We’re gonna get it, get it together right nowGonna get it, get it together somehow.”–Coldplay, Up&Up On many afternoons, a fourth grader in the neighborhood greets my middle school daughter on her…
Read More
Within minutes of my feet touching African soil, I met Alice. She was in the welcome party of Changemakers waiting at the Kigali airport to greet the African Road Learning Team. Before she embraced me, Alice looked warmly into my eyes, as if greeting a familiar friend. Alice’s eyes seemed to say: I offer true, genuine connection. My heart eagerly…
Read More
Don’t hold on to a song. That’s been my motto since I was a ten-year-old-mixed-tape-making, boom-box-loving freckle-faced girl. I spent endless hours in my lemon-yellow room with green carpet, making mixed tapes for people I love. Later, I became a master at burning CDs, which I inserted into fancy covers that I would mail long distances to excited recipients. When…
Read More
