What Matters Most To You Now?
It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon; the sky outside my study window is a pale, luminous blue undulant with sunlit clouds. Grey-shingled slant of roof; lift and droop of linden branches at play in a July breeze. Pollen sifts golden to the ground. My heart widens into the...
In Praise of Writers & Writing
Today, I’m thinking about this craft of writing that has claimed me since I was two years old and first learned to connect words on the page to the words in my mouth to the words in my ears. Today, I’m feeling into my deep love for writers, and for the community and...
Befriend the Spirit of Grace
Friends, On this wintry December afternoon, I’m thinking of you and reaching through the Love that enfolds us all to invite you to share a moment of grace with me. Just for this moment, step away from whatever you’re doing and open your senses, open your heart to the...
Scaling with Soul, with Eleanor Beaton
I was delighted to be this week’s guest on the Power + Presence + Position Podcast with my brilliant client, Eleanor Beaton. Listen in as Eleanor and I talk about: What devas are, their functions and purposes. How spirituality and the Sacred infuse our businesses....
Come Closer
This year, I’m renewing my friendship with winter. Here, in the Pacific Northwest, winter is weeks of big-bellied clouds looming low, dimming daylight to a crepuscular gloom that seeps invisibly into night. And drenching us in Biblical torrents of rain. As a new...
Create with the Soul of Your Business with Chantal Pierrat
Your business has its own soul, or Deva, which holds the pattern for the perfect unfolding of its life at every stage of your business’s development. Listen to my conversation with Chantal Pierrat on the Emerging Women Podcast as we explore how to create the...
The Habit of Creative Play: what to do when change scares you
As a creative person with a curious, questing mind, you are interested in so many things! You want to write that novel, weave a 3-D wall tapestry, and oh...illustrate a book for kids and the grownups who love them! You want to spend a semester in Florence, studying...
Sovereignty & the Pursuit of Perfection
Today I'd like to explore the relationship between sovereignty and expectations -- the expectations we have of ourselves, the ones we have of others. Expectations about how our lives should unfold, how the world should be, how events should turn out...How do these...
Marketing When You Feel Not-Good-Enough
Do you feel shy about inviting folks to buy your new offering? Try this: Pull your energy out of your offer and let it stand in the integrity of its own soul's essence. It will find the folks with whom it resonates, the ones it is meant to serve. This leaves you free...
Future Dreaming, Grace, & the Quest in the Question
Algebra finds missing information by using information we already have. In certain algebraic equations, a single variable within the equation remains unknown. To solve the equation, we work with the known variables to find the unknown variable. There is a koan in...