I love walking…this time of year has me outside any day that’s not raining. There’s something about walking that creates space for new thought…quiet spaces seem somehow different in a way that’s hard to explain. Walking feels good…and after, knowing that there has been a healthy long walk, it feels great. Walking forward creates movement …
Back’atcha
So, last fall, I had a friend that life had burned badly…a nasty divorce, a bad job situation, heartbreak with her children…I could go on. She lives out of province, and I cared, but living so far away it was hard to know what to do. She and I have been close: we share quotes …
Hump Day Nudge: Sticking Together–Literally
There is very little that is of more value in this world than friends. Folks who don’t have to be with you, like family does. Folks who choose to be with you… …even after, and sometimes especially after, they get to know you. Folks who love you enough to: laugh with you until milk …
Everybody’s got stuff
Melanie, our office administrator/client care manager is fond of the line: “Everybody’s got stuff”. She uses it to remind us to have compassion with folks that rub us the wrong way, like suppliers who are late, or someone who has cut us off in traffic. Recently, a company that owns computer system we use, stopped …
Taking the Mask Off
There is the very real dilemma and tension of needing to put on a mask and to armor up against fear and vulnerability on the job, and then find ways of reversing that to be emotionally available to his family: The brain is affected by trauma…we know what the names of the brain are …
Hump Day Nudge: Living and loving while dying
Around Christmas time several months ago, I remember stumbling across a beautiful song…gentle, lyrical, and beautiful, called Clouds, written by Zach Sobiech. I remember being touched by the song, and listening to it several times: The song was written by the 17 year old as a response to his mother who asked him to …
A grumpy blessing
I’ve been grumpy about something all month. I’m not proud of that, but it’s the truth. I said “yes” to a bunch of speaking opportunities in April…a couple of workshops, a retreat and a teaching time at a church. They are all connected to the work I do in helping folks improve the connections that …
Breaking free from old patterns
When I was a small child, too small to attend camp on my own, I went to camp with my mom. She was camp nurse and I became a sort of camp mascot. I got to run around and do my own thing and the older campers would see me and be kind to this …
Courage to stand up and walk over
Won’t you stand up and use your voice? There are a lot of folks who are depressed and struggling and anxious and lonely and desperately in need of connection…who are curled up on the inside (and maybe or maybe not on the outside) and would so benefit from another coming alongside. {! admin/html?id=a48d0e75ba205d3e954c26f13596dec0 !} For …
Hump Day Nudge: A teaching of love
This Wednesday, as you take a break from a busy day and look at the Hump Day Nudge, I want you to focus on the love in this video, shown in obvious ways by a teacher to his students, a father to his son, and a son to his father. Two things stand out …