For when you’re Both / And

For when you’re Both / And

  My friend**,   You are allowed.   You are allowed to be both full of rage and delight at the same time You are allowed to love your body one day and spend a hundred sad minutes in front of the mirror the next. You are allowed. To both love and hate...
What’s Happening to Me?  A helpful resource for grown-ass women

What’s Happening to Me? A helpful resource for grown-ass women

  Maybe I’m dating myself here, but I have a distinct memory of a book that unearthed itself in my tween years. It was called “What’s Happening to Me?”  and, of course, it was all about puberty.   In my work with women over the past...
Unpainted Toenails, and Other Liberations

Unpainted Toenails, and Other Liberations

  The work that I do with women as a coach (and often as a doula, too) is about supporting them to untangle themselves from the expectations, roles, responsibilities, personas, preferences, and models of success that they have either consciously or unconsciously...
Alignment First Aid:  42 ways to feel more aligned today

Alignment First Aid: 42 ways to feel more aligned today

  Here are some of my favourite small, doable ways to reclaim my sense of alignment on the days I’m still wearing my pj’s at 5p.m., sucking back my fourth cup of tea, and yelling at my kids… Make a list of 10 things you’re grateful for.  This is...
Finding Alignment in the Wild

Finding Alignment in the Wild

(the following article is reprinted from my original publication in Wild Woman Magazine)   When I am adrift, the ocean calls me.   She reminds me that whatever threatens to unmoor me that day is minuscule when held up against the fundamental, undeniable...