It turns out, I took a break from blogging while I’ve been testing Keepin’ it REAL in the Age of AI. I wasn’t sure how much I would blog...

In a very predictable move, I've been reflecting a lot on this past year! I wonder if anyone else feels like 2023 has been a weird year?...

After listening to a client divulge concerns that he'd been carrying around for a while, I asked. "What if you said that to your boss?"...

Sometimes I feel like Winnie the Pooh. One arm wrapped around my body with my other hand tapping my head saying, "Think, think, think."...

As I've reconnected with friends and colleagues lately, we typically take a few minutes to recall the last time we had seen each other....

"I'll talk to your father." The mother amiably says to her distressed child. This is a scene we have all encountered, be it personally or...

Students at my daughter's school have the same teacher for two years. When she returned this fall the thing that created the most stress...

Upon successfully fleeing to safety after the threat of an attack, a giraffe will shake. It turns out a lot of animals do this. By...

Last week I returned to Shadowcliff for the first time since the East Troublesome Fire ravaged Grand County last fall. It was the...

"I'm just so disappointed. This project has turned out nothing like I envisioned it to be." As the leader relayed his feelings, the...

"This changes everything," my client relayed to me as he finished describing what he had just learned at a conference. "That's awesome....

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 was out for a walk with my family last month. We were at the local museum parking lot, which has many interesting treasures to explore....

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...

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...