Anybody else out there have recurring anxiety dreams?  Yeah, I figured I wasn't alone on that front.  But let's see if we can at least get some good insight out of our subconscious minds, shall we?  

I’ve had this...

Equal parts serendipity and determination recently brought me the enviable gift of two weeks in Greece. I have wanted to visit the birthplace of western democracy, philosophy, and theatre for decades; I also desperately needed a vacation—a...

For the majority of my career I taught theatre to undergraduate college students. And as I’ve discussed before, this turned out to be an excellent training ground for the next chapter of my career as an administrator and coach. Theatre is a...

Part 3 of the Limiting Belief Dirty Laundry Series

I’ve talked a lot on Press Release about strengths, including how to be a star not a blob, and how to strengthen your strengths.

But I would be remiss if I didn’t cop to the fact that...

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...

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...

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...