by | | Confidence, Emotional Agility, Perfectionism, Practices for You, Resilience
Hiding Weakness Me too. Honestly, it took me ages to realize how much I avoid it. How many decades I tried to bypass and ignore my weaknesses and insecurities. Camouflage or hide them by doubling down on what I was good at. Performing in ways that the...
by | | Confidence, Personal Fulfillment, Self Awareness
You become yourself, when you become unrecognizable. Let me explain. After three long years I found myself on a dance floor again- Alaska style. I was at the South East Alaska State Fair this past weekend. It’s an annual pilgrimage of northerners...
by | | Career Change, Confidence, Navigating Uncertainty
Uncertainty- my main state of 2020 As I sit here in the dark, I am not sure what to write. Instead, I will refill my tea cup again, with Awake English Breakfast, hoping that this ritual will illuminate which thread I want to pull. This pausing, pregnant with...
by | | Confidence, Conflict + Power, Navigating Uncertainty, Practices for You
The Illusion of Individualism Do you ever feel like you are in a period of So. Much. Learning? For me, it feels like a particularly potent time, 6 months into the pandemic. Themes I’m hearing from committed leaders of social change speak to interdependence,...
by | | Confidence, Navigating Uncertainty, Practices for You, Resilience
The small box of my chaotic attention It’s strange. I love writing, but I don’t feel like writing. I love my beautiful view to the sparkled snow and handmade bird feeders, but I am not really ‘here’. Instead, I’m compulsively drawn to ‘assess the state of...
by | | Confidence, Emotional Agility, Practices for You
Why are we never enough? Ever notice how hard ass your inner critic is? The recent viral video “Be a Lady They Said” (which could easily be “Be a Man”), is saturated with the language of never enough: either we’re too little or too much. ...
