Hard to Sum Up in a Sound Bite
When people ask me, "How was your Camino?" I don't have a simple answer. It was a multilayered experience that I'm still processing.
I spent more than two weeks walking over 225 miles across northern Spain on the Camino Primitivo, one of the ancient pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. For more than 1,200 years, pilgrims have walked these routes, originally for religious reasons. Today, people come for many purposes: reflection, healing, physical challenge, spiritual seeking, or simply the chance to step away from everyday life and reconnect with themselves.
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.
In 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.
So 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?
Talking 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.
I 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?”
I 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.
According 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%.
Embarking 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.
The coaching industry is now tremendous. It is a 15 billion dollar industry. Many professionals have left their office jobs to become highly successful coaches.
Another interesting year. Here is my list of 2022 picks—a podcast, a TED talk, a book, and a bunch of powerful women business leaders.
How exciting that Elon Musk talked about being neurodiverse when he was interviewed by Chris Anderson recently at TED.
I plan to use these criteria (thank you Laurie Anderson) to evaluate the TED talks that I hear this week.
Excited, terrified, thrilled, relieved and overwhelmed are a few of the emotions that I am feeling about writing my first book.
This is the seventh Saturday in a row, starting January 1, 2022, that 60 of us have arrived at The Training Lab (TTL) at 7:30am for a two and a half hour workout preparing for Hyrox NYC on March 3rd.
What a ride 2021 has been. I feel like I exited the world of Covid at times but it keeps reasserting itself. Feelings of languishing, confusion and insecurity linger for so many of us. At the same time, I am grateful for so much, including my 2021 Picks
We all experienced challenges like never before, but that makes the bright spots a little brighter, don't you think? In this craziest of years, I am more motivated than ever to continue my tradition of sharing some of my personal silver linings with you.
In this unprecedented crisis, we have to find a way for our profound anxiety and sadness to co-exist with gratitude and hope. For me, the story of how my yoga studio, Modo Yoga NYC, rose to the challenges of Covid-19 is so uplifting, I’ve been inspired to share it far and wide.
Week 2 of social distancing and home confinement for most of us. Everyone is affected by this unprecedented crisis…and we all face together the uncertainty of what happens next week, next month…and down the road when things get back to normal, or the new normal, as many of us are hoping.
Confession #1: everything fell apart during the December holiday season. My regular schedule changed a lot (sons out of school, lots of festivities, travel across the country) and the carved out time for meditation evaporated.
Oftentimes I get my greatest inspiration from the the people I coach. I work with a long list of outstanding organizations. I am highlighting three this year that have profoundly impacted me in 2019.
A month ago, I finished my first 10-day silent meditation retreat. I blogged about the experience after completing it, and I committed to reporting back at regular intervals about its lasting impacts.
The last couple of weeks were very busy: 2 major client offsites to facilitate, 2 bar mitzvahs to attend, my father-in-law’s 89th birthday, the World Series, a couple of charity events, a friend’s birthday party….and I missed all of this activity.
I joined this invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches in October 2019. Criteria for acceptance includes a track record of successfully impacting business growth metrics, as well as personal and professional achievements and honors.
I coach a leadership team at a billion dollar organization in New York City. One of the department heads, responsible for an annual budget north of $100 million, shared with me her three keys to successful leadership.
Yes, I lost it when Steve Salee and I delivered closing remarks on Day One of the Overcoming Compassion Fatigue Conference at Rutgers earlier this month.
This photo definitely captures what my mind feels like after a week at TED – completely turned upside down and all around, confused, exhilarated, inspired, and in a very heightened emotional state.
My improv group had its second show last night. It was scary and exhilarating, and hey, about 5 non-family members paid $8 to watch us!
Writing 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.