IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
New offerings (plus a story about my winding path)
A few posts ago, I mentioned the winding path that one must take up the side of the mountain when the ascent is too steep for the ordinary wanderer. That metaphor has been ringing so true for me recently, especially in this self-employment journey. Each time I think...
What I learned from Bono
If you follow my Twitter or Facebook streams, you probably know by now that I went to the U2 concert last night. That would explain why I'm wandering around the house a little like a zombie this afternoon, on a bit of a U2 hangover. Too much adrenalin and not enough...
Change the words, change the culture
I'm on a personal mission to change the culture by changing the language. As I mentioned in How to Lead with your Paint Clothes on, most of the language we're used to using in leadership and corporate culture (and, to be frank, even in communities, churches, etc.) is...
Lead like Rosa Parks
Yesterday was my first call with the delightful tribe of people who signed up for the learning circle of How to Lead with your Paint Clothes on. What a great call it was! My only complaint is that it was much too short. AND that I didn't get to watch people's faces...
Do you know how to bless yourself?
I was running on my favourite path by the river, listening to a podcast interview with Sylvia Boorstein, when she said something that nearly stopped me dead in my tracks. As part of a guided meditation, she said "Now offer yourself a blessing." Offer myself a...
What the young feminists taught me
Before and after the leadership workshop that made me cry (and laugh) I got to hang out with a bunch of young feminists this past weekend. I was too old to participate in the ReBelles gathering, but I could at least volunteer and be inspired by their energy and...
Blurry Vision
It was Saturday morning and I was sitting alone on the couch, sobbing. Everyone else was still in bed. I had to get up early to facilitate a leadership workshop on "inspiring a shared vision", and instead of doing anything productive to prepare for the workshop, all I...
It’s my BIRTHDAY and you can celebrate with me!
I'm FORTY-FIVE today! Yikes! I was going to do something serious and soul-searching in honour of my 45th birthday, but then I got hit with a whack of heavy-duty life circumstances in the last couple of months, and so I said "ENOUGH with the serious and soul-searching,...
On Walking
They say that some of your best clues about how you should spend your life lie in your most cherished childhood memories. The things that brought you joy as a six year old provide the roadmap to your heart's desire. In that case, it couldn't be more appropriate that I...
Enough
Today is one of those days when I wrestle with being "enough". It's predictable, really. Whenever I have to deal with something that makes me feel less than enough (today it is that ugly beast called "finances"), my gremlins want to do a happy dance all over my...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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