As a lifelong peacekeeper who is also comfortable openly navigating conflict with compassion, I rarely "burn bridges." So, in those few...

"Triggers are everywhere," my client, we'll call her Dee, observed as we were checking in on her progress since our last session. Dee...

A few years ago, whenever I experienced rejection I felt like I was being stabbed in the heart. Immediately, my thoughts spiraled into an...

A few years ago, I was bustling about my kitchen, putting clean dishes away while deep in thought. We have a sneaky cabinet that's tucked...

As Marie sat in yet another interview she froze again. Her inner critic was admonishing her for not knowing the answers to the questions....

I recently served on a team tasked with guiding our co-housing community through the process of choosing paint colors for the outside of...

When Lewis came to me for coaching, he was tired of being stuck in an unhealthy pattern. There were too many fires to put out at work and...

Working with clients across different industries affords me a lot of exciting opportunities to learn. It also means I commonly encounter...

I hadn't even been at this networking event 20 minutes before I was triggered. It was a reunion with a peer group I belonged to a few...

I remember when I was in my second or third year in business. A colleague had invited me to the ten-year anniversary party of her...

Happy June everyone! In more normal times, June is a great month to revisit our plans. It's the halfway point in the year, so there's an...

As a kid, anytime I sat down to take a test I would freeze up and struggle to recall information that I readily knew just hours before....

In the last fourteen months, most of us have had to scrap the plans we made and refocus our efforts to meet current needs. When that...

During droughts, the water recedes dramatically in Horsetooth Reservoir. As the shoreline shifts, dense mud is exposed. It's the kind of...

One of the benefits of rebounding from a major illness is the self-knowledge that you can do it. That's a critical piece of your story...

The other week my cat alerted me that two baby bunnies had fallen into the window well. They were huddled together while she meowed...

In the evening of January 19, 2011, I sat comfortably on the futon in my house processing a conversation I had with a mentor earlier that...

I recently gave a talk on the Neuroscience of Conversation to a group of job seekers who are all currently unemployed. As part of the...

Many clients come to me when they're experiencing a disconnect between who they strive to be and how they're showing up. Take Lisa for...

The other day I was talking with my husband as he excitedly told me that Nadal had won his 13th French Open, the most any player has ever...