Do You Remember What Delights You
Do you remember what delights you? Not what makes you useful. Not what makes you productive. Not what helps everyone else feel comfortable, fed, scheduled, supported, and emotionally regulated. What actually delights you? That question can feel surprisingly awkward...
Why Fall Is a Good Time to Begin Pondering the Year Ahead
There’s a point every fall when the year ahead starts feeling close enough to think about, even if you’re nowhere near ready to choose your Word of the Year. After more than twenty years of choosing a Word, I’ve learned that it rarely appears on command simply because...
Why You Might Need to Take a Step Back Before You Burn Out
There are days when you know you need to take a step back because absolutely everyone is getting on your nerves, including people you genuinely like. The email notification feels hostile. The dishwasher is suddenly one more personal insult. Someone asks what’s for...
How to Find Clarity When You Don’t Know What You Want
If you’re trying to find clarity around what comes next, sitting still and thinking harder may not be the answer. Especially if your brain has been chewing on the same question like a dog with a slipper. Sometimes clarity doesn’t arrive because you finally think the...
Optimism Isn’t Fake Positivity. It’s Refusing to Write the Ending Too Soon
Optimism gets a bad reputation when it’s confused with pretending. And honestly, fair enough. No one needs to be told to “look on the bright side” when the plan fell apart, the news was disappointing, the relationship shifted, the opportunity disappeared, or the thing...
You Don’t Need Thicker Skin. You Need Better Boundaries.
Better boundaries may be what you need if you’ve spent years believing the answer is to toughen up. Maybe you’ve told yourself you’re too sensitive, too affected, too easily knocked sideways by someone’s tone, comment, mood, criticism, expectation, or poorly timed...
Make Your Own Luck by Meeting Life Halfway
If you want to make your own luck, you don’t have to become wildly optimistic, ignore reality, or pretend every flat tire is secretly a blessing wrapped in rubber. Please. Some things are just inconvenient, disappointing, expensive, or exhausting, and calling them...
The Milestones Nobody Throws a Party For
Nobody sends flowers because you finally stopped apologizing for having an opinion. There isn’t usually a celebration when you set a boundary with someone you’ve spent years trying to please. No one hands you a certificate for leaving work on time, asking for help, or...
Imposter Syndrome Isn’t Always the Enemy
Imposter syndrome has become one of those phrases we use for almost every flicker of self-doubt. You feel nervous before hitting publish. You hesitate before applying for the job. You wonder if you’re really qualified to speak, lead, teach, write, create, charge, ask,...
Love After Marriage: Giving Old Gold Jewelry New Meaning
Marriage gives ordinary objects a history. A gold necklace may bring back your first anniversary. A bracelet might recall a holiday when you finally had time for each other. Years later, the memories can remain vivid even when those pieces spend more time in a drawer...
The Treatment Where the Most Interesting Part Happens After You Leave
Most appointments follow a simple script. You show up, something happens, and you walk out with the result already staring back at you in the rearview mirror. Cause and effect, all wrapped up before the parking validation even runs out. Then there’s a stranger...
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