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What My Garden Teaches Me About Leadership
My tiny garden is more than a place to experiment and grow vegetables — it’s a living classroom and a sanctuary. Each seed, plant, and season carries lessons shaping me into a more compassionate and effective leader. Patience and Timing Gardeners sometimes learn this...
Re-Activate with Recurring Meetings!
This summer marks my 13th year of consulting with nonprofit leaders and organizations. I have focused on parlaying the lessons I learned while leading a nonprofit I co-founded in 1995 and offering them to my clients as a point of reference. I have been made aware of...
The Power of Vibration: How Your Frequency Shapes What You Manifest
We’ve all heard the phrase, “Everything is energy.” Quantum physics supports this idea, but it is also echoed in ancient wisdom traditions. Everything in the universe—including our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs—carries a frequency. The vibration we hold most often...
Leading and Moving Through Trauma
Devastation and natural disasters are becoming increasingly frequent, unfortunately. As we endure wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, and various catastrophic events, it is crucial for us, as leaders, to learn how to be of service, how to lead, how to hold space, and how...
Slow Down You Move Too Fast
If you are around my age, you are familiar with this song and know the outcome will be feeling groovy...so let’s make the moment last! I have designated 2025 as my "Taking It Slow in the Morning" year. I have discovered incredible joy in waking up at a specific time,...
Savoring Your Senses
When was the last time you intentionally savored your senses? When did you fully immerse yourself in heightened smells, sights, sounds, touch, and taste simply by being in the moment? It may seem easy, but it can be quite challenging to master. Our minds can easily...
Combating Stress
Let's face it; our world has become one big stress ball! If you look at today's stores, you will see gadgets created to combat stress of all kinds: stress balls, fidget cubes, and electronic devices to monitor breathing and heart rate. There are coffee mugs and tee...
Dreams In Motion
When I was 23, I was a support coordinator for people with intellectual disabilities. One of the best parts of my job was the opportunity to gather a group of individuals once a year to help create exciting options and visions for their lives. Recently, I realized...
SAD and The Case for Hibernation
For the first time in my life, I am struggling to get excited about the new year and the new opportunities and possibilities that come with it. I usually bounce right into my new year’s resolutions and more often than not, achieve the majority of my goals by the time...
Easing into the New Year
Take your time getting dressed this morning; read a book, make yourself some breakfast. The world can wait.” – Whitney Nobis “Once she stopped rushing through life, she was amazed how much more life she had time for.” – Unknown Happy New Years to you all. May 2025 be...
Reclaiming HER-story:
Centuries ago, women held significant power in society. We were revered as the creators of life due to our sacred connection to the Earth and our ability to cultivate intuition and flow in our lives and the lives of others. We were multifaceted doers, in tune with the...
There’s a reason for the season
Isn't it fascinating how we begin to crave the seasons that are on the horizon? If we listen to our inner wisdom, we can see that our body and mind naturally synchronize with the changing weather patterns. I don't know about you, but I'm already searching for fuzzy...
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