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...

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...

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...

Part 2 of the Limiting Belief Dirty Laundry Series

For the majority of my life I have believed that I am inherently flawed in two vital ways—I am not an “athlete” and I am not a “morning person.” More...

 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...