Essentials for an amazing life

Hey lovebug,

I was talking with a friend of mine a few months ago.

This guy is a super achiever. 

He’s got a great job with a beautiful home in a great city. He’s traveled all over the world. He’s ...

Have I told you that I live in a gated community?

I do.

It’s something I never thought I’d say since I love neighborhoods with big trees that run parallel to city streets—the kind of street with a l...

I’m not going to talk about how overwhelming the world is right now because, um, hello.

It’s bananas.

B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

I swear. My brain does this EVERY TIME without fail.

(No idea what I’m talking ...

I was talking to a dear friend of mine a few weeks ago.

She said, “Hey… do you have anything to help with eco anxiety?”

Why yes. Yes I do.

Just a reminder/disclaimer, before we get into this: I’m n...

Today we’re going to talk about shaking yourself out of your hum-drum-numbness.

I feel like since I started writing these weekly posts back in January of 2020 it’s been one damn thing after another.

A couple of weekend’s ago I went to a wedding.

Being my boyfriend’s plus one meant that I knew exactly one person going in—him.

Although he is a VERY fun person to do anything with, he had friends a...

A couple of years ago, I was on a flight from the east coast back to Portland where I live.

We were nearing landing, but we were in that time where you have to put all of your electronics away and ju...

I don’t know when authenticity became such a easily tossed around buzzword, but somewhere in the 8,000 blog posts, articles and books on self help I’ve read, I feel like it lost its oomph for me.

Aut...

Have you ever been super excited about doing something?

You get this magical IDEA.

Either you download it from your guides or it comes to you in a vision in meditation or it bubbles up from your hea...

Do you ever find yourself frustrated by some commonly held sayings of the woo-woo world?

I do.

And I am like, MISS WOO.

I saw this post on Instagram the other day on the account of a VERY woo perso...

Recently I asked my Instagram followers “When was the last time you did something hard? You know, on purpose?”

Only two people responded.

One had handled a tough communication exchange (brilliantly)...

I was channeling for a client a couple of weeks ago and the subject of not feeling good enough came up as something he was struggling with.

Feeling not good enough comes up for a good portion of my c...