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…
Carrying stories
A man walks through a doorway. It seems simple enough. "Just the facts Ma'am." Just a man. Just a doorway. Except that it is NEVER just a man or just a doorway. There are stories stuck like glue to both man and doorway. Is it a man whose exit marks the abandonment of...
Feeling caged
Today is another in a long series of grey, sometimes drizzly, sometimes windy days. This morning I feel like a caged animal, longing for the space beyond the clouds, beyond the grey. I feel easily caged. It's part of my nature. Put too many boundaries around me...
Goals are for sissies!
I'm done with writing goals. Good-bye. Good riddance. I used to write them faithfully - at least once a year and sometimes in between. A lot of smart people told me that they were good and necessary and vital to my success, and since I have a habit of listening to...
Tools + permission = happiness
I'm not a mommy-blogger for a few good reasons. I don't think I'm particularly competent at parenthood (aren't we all just feeling our way in the dark?), and there are a lot of other things roaming around in this grey matter that I'd just as soon write about as...
Are you striving or are you trusting?
Okay, I'll admit it. I've been doing a lot of striving lately. Striving to make my business work, striving to make my relationships work, striving to make my life not seem like a colossal waste of time. What do I mean by "striving"? Well, for me that's the word that...
I’m going to walk 100 kilometres!
Sometimes an idea grabs ahold of you and just won't let you go until you follow it. The moment I first heard that Cath Duncan was going to walk 100 kilometres in honour of her little Juggernaut (her stillborn baby), I knew instantly that I wanted to join her. In the...
The long surrender
It's true what they say... in order to really learn something, you just have to step forward with the audacity to teach it. Several weeks ago, I introduced a new series called "Let go of the Ground" about the importance of surrender in the process of transformation...
There is another way
A few days ago, I blogged about my response to Osama bin Laden's death, asking myself (and you) whether there might be a better way of responding to the horror of 9/11 than spending the last 10 years seeking vengeance. I'm happy to say there IS a better way, and it is...
The first ever Sophia Leadership award goes to…
Throughout this federal election, I have been watching to see whether any of the people hoping to get elected to represent Canadians in Ottawa would exhibit the qualities of Sophia Leadership. I had almost given up the search (oh, politics is such an ugly game, isn't...
Vengeance does not equal peace
I have mixed feelings about last night's reports that Osama bin Laden is dead. On the one hand, I understand the need for justice and I ache for those people still living with the deep loss that 9/11 caused. I was in New York City a month after the towers fell and I...
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