Don’t smell, inhale! In the mornings I refuse to stop and smell the flowers.I stop and inhale until it suctions around my nose like a bear hug.Noticing the beauty of flowers is great.Smelling the flowers – awesome.Going nose to petal? That’s living.I have one tattoo.Well technically, 2, tattoo #1 is covered up by tattoo #2. […]
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A band aid won’t fix this We are facing a healthcare crisis – losing nurses and doctors that are needed to keep our communities healthy.Too many organizations/hospitals don’t fund training or address, mindful leadership, emotional intelligence burnout and the impact it has on the mental health of physicians, nurses and staff and on the quality
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This is what kindness looks like I have to share the sight I came up the stairs to after working down in BMK tonight. Finley started having cold symptoms after school. No fever. Negative Covid test. But she knows that I have some important in person workshops and meetings with potential consulting clients and speaking
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I knew that I could do more I was hit with a question I wasn’t expecting during a meeting Friday afternoon.A meeting about the need for leadership training in the financial sector went a different direction when, after I described the community that I live in, I was asked:“Are you concerned about your kids not
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“What the heck are we doing?!” Have you had this happen?When you do something purely on instinct and then your rational/logical brain catches up and yells at you “WHAT THE HECK ARE WE DOING?? ”.Someone captured that very moment a few weeks ago while I was speaking at a conference in Cleveland. And because vulnerability
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On Shifting Perspective What if I’m wrong?What if I’m doing something not because it is the right thing to do, but because I BELIEVE it is the right thing to do?Are you willing to turn around and look at something from another perspective?It is when we refuse to consider the possibility that we could be
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An Ode To My Father Always hug your dad. There was a stretch of time when I was a teen that I barely spoke to my dad. I wrote earlier this week about how much shame I felt when I got out of the hospital for anorexia. That silence and shame is what led to
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Champion Others Don’t be a team of bittersweet.From sports to medical to corporate – I have run into team after team made up of bittersweet. And very few made up of champions.Yesterday, I ended up butt down in a shallow creek after tripping over a vine while clearing out the heavy brush in the timber.
On Pride Don’t let your pride keep you from doing what will make you proud. I posted asking for help today in my Facebook group for camp parents, leaning into vulnerability. I happened to look at my summer camp enrollment for the first time in months and was shocked by how many camps I still
Turning Obstacles into Opportunity What obstacle will you turn into an opportunity this week? Last summer we dug a moat in front of the house and laid all new tiling to solve the problem of water pressure from the thick clay pushing against the retaining wall along the path to BMK. For a week I
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