Of course you're yearning for something else - you have lived experience and awareness of your power to create and build positive things that can address what's messed up in the world. But what if the intensity of that yearning for something else is not about the pain of the stuckness of this moment, but actually reflects your deep inner certainty in your power, your potential energy... (which, when it becomes kinetic energy, watch out world)! Your brilliant body already know

It’s kind of beautiful to me to consider how this hall and the potential energy within has contributed to human connection without doing anything other than simply existing.

For when we find ourselves asking this question in our daily lives [Originally published on Substack on September 25, 2024. Moving it here as part of building a more complete, unified archive of my work.] A picture from a particularly beautiful place near my home that reminds me that we exist in just a tiny moment of history. A few months ago, I had a minor personal epiphany. One that has opened my eyes and super-shifted my perspective on how I experience my life. It hit me o

It is a striking reminder to me of how much we can influence the world without even knowing it. This man I’m sure doesn’t have any awareness that his brief comment brightened my day, and yet I’m going to carry positive energy forward because of him. And I think we all do that for each other. Maybe not for every single person we encounter in the day, but our influence in the micro-moments MATTERS. We are shaping the world via the micro-moments of just being ourselves.

[Originally published on Substack on May 13, 2024. Moving it here as part of building a more complete, unified archive of my work.] My emotions are fighting against containment today. The are swelling out, yelling “look at me, look at me!” My body doesn’t know what to do with them. And so I look to my to-do list for the day, saying “okay, but the emotions are for later. Right now you need to focus on x (to-do list item).” But my emotions scream, “no! I am right here! Notice m

[Originally published on Substack on May 10, 2024. Moving it here as part of building a more complete, unified archive of my work.] I am hungry. Oh so very hungry. That gnawing, unsettled feeling of needing more. My body knows it. But gosh, my brain is trying to tell me, “no, you’re fine. You’re just making excuses. Ignore that gnawing, that knowing, and sit here and do that thing on your to-do list today. Just push through.” I’ve been through the cycles of gaining and losing

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