Dear Ones, I've been thinking about scarcity mentality a lot lately. Scarcity mentality is the belief that there isn’t enough—enough time, enough love, enough success, enough space at the table. It is not about the very real resource scarcity that many in our world are facing at the moment. Scarcity mentality is when we actually have more than enough of what we need but instead we feel like if someone else has something, there’s less left for you. But scarcity mentality is just one way of...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Ones, Last week I shared a haiku that I wrote* and it led me to find this gem on the internet from 2018, when John Paul Lederach was on the On Being podcast and offered a number of haikus. Here are some of my favorites. Don’t ask the mountain / to move. Just take a pebble/ each time you visit. Wild and unruly. / Quiet enough to be held. / Silence between words. Smile. Offer gratitude. Leave the poem. We never know, really, where change begins. Do you have any favorite haikus that you...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Ones,Wow, I am aliveAliveness is just like thisAliveness just isI made this haiku for you! I’ve been thinking about real, human aliveness in the age of rapidly all-encompassing AI everything. At the science museum this weekend, I stood in the heat-seeking camera and saw my body heat reflected on the screen. I felt so comforted by the red and orange glow reflected back at me - proof of my aliveness! I didn’t really realize I was doubting it before that moment, but its undeniability on the...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Ones “You must kill the Angel in the House” - Virginia Woolf I can’t stop thinking about this piece of writing by Virginia Woolf that my friend Erica shared with me many years ago: “And while I was writing this review, I discovered that if I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certain phantom… I called her…The Angel in the House...She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts of family...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Ones, I'll be your mirrorReflect what you are, in case you don't knowI'll be the wind, the rain, and the sunsetThe light on your door to show that you're home -The Velvet Underground and Nico Have you ever had the experience where someone listened to you so deeply and came to know you so well that they held up a mirror - not just reflecting back all your faults, but the real you? The “beauty you are,” as they say in the song? It is so very rare but so incredible when someone is able to...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Dear friends, I’m thrilled to share something really exciting with you. On June 13, I am hosting a Listening Lab Leader Certification Training in New York City, and I’d love for you to be there. This one-day training is designed to help leaders like you bring Listening Labs to your community — whether that’s on campus, in the workplace, or within any organization. What are Listening Labs? Listening Labs are an award-winning methodology designed to create deep, meaningful connections in...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Friends, This is the LAST WEEK to sign up for Flourish, my transformative 12-week mindfulness certification program—and we only have a few spots left! If you’re interested but still have questions, I’d love to hop on a call and chat with you. Are you a yoga teacher looking to deepen your teaching, expand your impact, and earn 12 Yoga Alliance CEUs? Then Flourish is for you! This immersive training will help you:✅ Integrate mindfulness into your classes✅ Lead meditation with confidence✅...
6 months ago • 1 min read