I have a client who’s transitioning from a corporate job into new, self-created work.  In preparation for what’s next, she’s hired me to prepare her for the new work she expects to create.   Recently, she discovered that what she thought she would do-which involved corporate consulting–isn’t feeling right.  She visited with former

We often repeat to ourselves stories at which we should take a second look. One of my clients came to me concerned about her relationship with money.  She was torn between two opposing viewpoints.  One was a general feeling that everything would work out and that she shouldn’t worry.  In fact, she worried

Recently a friend shared a Facebook video about a Scottish woman, born in 1908 who went to Canada and fell in love with a Canadian.  When the woman returned home to Scotland to visit family, she wasn’t allowed to return to Canada and marry the man because he wasn’t Catholic.  She returned all

“Bloom where you are planted.”   The most positive meaning is Do the best you can under the circumstances in which you find yourself. Fair enough.   However, as a gardener, I know that plants require different circumstances to thrive.   Overwatering a cactus and underwatering a Peace Lily are the surest ways

One of my teenage jobs was working in a greenhouse, where the formidable owner Ms. Jones showed me how to grow new plants from cuttings. Every plant has nodes.  Nodes are the points on a stem where the buds, leaves, and branching twigs originate.  But they can also be the points where roots

One of the trickier life challenges is deciding if you’re doing enough on a daily basis towards your goals. As someone wise once said, more than we are doers, we are deciders. I understand certain concepts intellectually, but when I get them emotionally, they penetrate more deeply. Earlier in the year I asked

Life’s big events-births, deaths, marriages, and graduations-all have some aspect of ceremony or ritual attached to them. However, unless you belong to a group where rituals are important, there are not many consistent opportunities in adult life to acknowledge smaller successes and setbacks. Yet most of life is made up of smaller setbacks