2025 has been a hard year for the collective and also for me personally. I’m coming out of it more resilient and with a deeper understanding of what happiness truly is. I want to share with you a little about my journey delving into understanding happiness as I move into the next chapter: no children living at home and caretaking of elders taking up more space in my life.
Here's what I’ve been learning about happiness from the inside out.
Read MoreIn 2024, I completed two big passion projects: publishing the ADHD Success Planner and successfully completing Everesting 29029 on Stratton Mountain in Vermont. The facts, briefly.
Read MoreSo much went right this morning. But while I embrace this positive feeling, I try to hold it lightly. I know that many days don’t start off this well. So, how do we set ourselves up to have a good day even if it starts out badly?
Read MoreTalking about the end of life often comes with a certain awkwardness and unease. Recently, I have found myself increasingly drawn to understanding better how we navigate the end of life.
Read MoreI always remember Ela Bhatt, a founder of Women’s World Banking and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, telling me when her husband passed, “why does everyone wait until someone is dead to say nice things about them?”
Read MoreI will always remember the summer of 2023. I needed to live in another state where my son was playing on a prestigious travel baseball team. One of my most poignant memories is how quickly these baseball adventures transported me back to my early years of parenting.
Read MoreWriting my first book, Coach Yourself was easy. Honestly. Because the entire process felt authentic, aligned with my values, and allowed me to share my messages with a wider audience.
Read MoreAccording to Sonja Lyubormirsky, about 50% of our happiness is genetic; 10% is contextual…so we have 40% to work with. We can try different habits and strategies to increase what makes up that 40%.
Read MoreEmbarking on a three-day/two-night backpacking trip in Colorado was both thrilling and nerve-wracking for me. As someone who had only done day hikes, this was a significant step up.
Read MoreThe coaching industry is now tremendous. It is a 15 billion dollar industry. Many professionals have left their office jobs to become highly successful coaches.
Read MoreAnother interesting year. Here is my list of 2022 picks—a podcast, a TED talk, a book, and a bunch of powerful women business leaders.
Read MoreHow exciting that Elon Musk talked about being neurodiverse when he was interviewed by Chris Anderson recently at TED.
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