I found when I had told this story here that I had never told it before — not like this.  We find the opening when what needs to be...

“And you would be…?” Good morning, dearests. Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral? I think I just did. I had a rare...

A firefighter told me yesterday that when he started working with me on his resilience he was excited because he thought that he was...

GAMES BEYOND ESCAPISM… Play. RADICAL COMPASSION: Compash-Imagination TOOLS: field notebook and good pen, a timer, other humans, and a...

With our lives. Aimlessness and loss compound each other. Perhaps you’re lying in bed at night worrying about tomorrow or next...

Teaching is about information and understanding. Coaching, however, is for intuition and implementation. Here’s a 2-minute video if...

luminations noun, plural.  1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity.  See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, work, love,...

Dear ones, this morning I, too, am torn, deeply sad and sorry and worried, reaching out to friends to know they’re safe, aware...

Spoken to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman for the Blessing of the Animals… I was invited to share today in part because...

The gift of inland islands… Three months ago post-traumatic stress came to walk beside me again, after many years gone. Random panic...

Sometimes I think I have come into this life as one of the pain-bearers — not one who takes all pain onto herself, nor one who takes it...

In the last post, we looked at the resilience Myth #2:  “I’ll evade burnout with careful time management.” So stop and think for a moment...

To give you one more idea around this one, Robert Grudin, who is one of my favorite thinkers, wrote in his book on time, “On this subject...

For a time, I crashed down into a full-on burnout once every ten years: three times in three ways — once through tragedy, once as a...

A story and an invitation and a challenge.  The story is here in this short Pecha Kucha video. This was about people playing with...

We are all together on this ship and some of us will die sooner.  Some young.  I will grieve again, and comfort.  It may be me.  Those of...

But this is where I want to be clear.  I am not asking that my engagement with my own particular demons be clean.  That I stay fully...

“I just wanted myself back, and then to create something more. After what I’ve been through, I am not going to settle for an average...