Falling in Love with Any Work You Do

Like most high school and college students, I went through a lot of summer jobs.  I was a hostess at Applebee’s. I worked in a Ford Motor Company plant where I drove a hi-lo, picking car parts to ship off to assembly plants around the world. I was a bartender at a dive bar outside

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Communication is Not Really the Issue

People sometimes contact me for help with “communication problems”. They typically claim that their communication is being misunderstood by the people in their life, and they want to me to teach them to communicate more effectively.Or they say their relationships are suffering from poor communication but they haven’t the foggiest idea how to communicate any

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When You Think You’re Not in Love Anymore

I bet you’ve known someone whose feelings shifted and they decided they were no longer in love with the person they used to be in love with. Maybe it’s even been you. When you fall out of love, it can really look like the person you used to love changed. Something that was once there

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How to Find Clarity When You’re Confused About What to Do

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” ~Cicero  You know that state of confusion where you feel really unsure about what to do—you’re talking about it with all of your friends, making lists, weighing options, lying awake all night?As truly confused and unsure as you may feel in those moments, you’re not. You have

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Want to Try a Life-Changing Experiment?

What if nothing in the outside, physical world had a significant impact on how you feel on a daily basis? Can you imagine?If you knew for certain that nothing in the external world—not partners, jobs, kids, houses, money, how you look, what you say, think, or do with your time—had a significant impact on your

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The Nature of Being Human

**This week’s article is a portion of my new book, Being Human, which was featured on Maria Shriver’s website this week.**I was relaxing in my living room in Michigan on a humid afternoon in the summer of 2012, laptop on lap, ear buds in ears, listening to a talk from the 2011 Innate Health Conference

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Yearlong Private Coaching Program

People hire me because they want something. Sometimes it’s something out in the world, like a career you love, relationships with less drama, or a way to not take things so personally. And sometimes it’s internal and less tangible, like peace of mind, a richer experience of life, or a way to stop trying to

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Peacefully, Gracefully Annoyed

I realize I sound a bit crazy when I talk about having bad days that aren’t so bad (as I do here. And here). It is so comfortable and…different…to not fear what you feel. To really get that whatever is going on for you is human, perfectly okay, not the least bit meaningful, and on its

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