Guest Post by Renée Cramer

When I left my first tenure-track job, my department chair reassured me that he had seen the moving coming.  “Of course you’re moving on.  You’re ambitious,” he said,...

Part 1 in the Limiting Belief Dirty Laundry Series

The first limiting belief that I want to reveal here on Press Release is this—everything is about me.

Okay, you might say, that’s just what humans do; we are by nature egoic, meaning...

Perhaps you’ve had this experience as well…

You are kvetching to your partner/bestie/anyone who will listen. You are knee-deep in explaining why the other person in the story is at fault. You are describing who they are and what...

By guest author Renée Cramer

Play with me for a moment, please:

Imagine that you’re standing on a bosu ball, on one leg, while juggling flaming batons.

Imagine that you are an elephant expected to sit precariously on the tiniest of...

Not surprisingly, a good percentage of my clients are academics. I came up through academia and my day job is in academic administration. Higher education has been good for me and good to me, and I marvel every day at the kind of work my...

Guest Writer: Caroline J. Simon

A story often wanders into my life just when I need it. I first encountered Isak Dinesen’s Babette’s Feast as an audiobook I was playing while I drove across the country to begin a new job. I had a lot...

Let’s get a little existential on Press Release this month, shall we?!

Why am I here?
What am I doing?
Why does it matter?
What is my purpose?
What is the point of it all?

Human beings have been asking these questions for eons in all areas of...

Harken back with me if you will to your college days (or to anytime you were a student)—remember writing reflection papers? Like, dozens of them, every semester? Not only have I written hundreds of them in my lifetime, I have also assigned...

I had such a great personal growth moment this week with the participants in Wandering and Wayfinding (my virtual course on using values, strengths and purpose to navigate life’s ups and downs). This group is really connecting over the hurt...

Here’s a question that comes up a lot in my workshops and coaching—can our core values change? It’s an interesting question to me—on the one hand, the meaning of core values seems to imply some kind of innateness, or at the...