My bike Big Red on our last prep ride on a local wooded trail before the tour. I'm unplugging a bit this week... not completely, but enough to get out of my routines and onto a bike. I'll be pedaling through Charleston, Beaufort, and Savannah with my husband and a tour group. We haven’t done a biking trip in years and I’m soooooo excited! And my only real intention for this trip? Be there. I want to soak in the sights and sounds. To be present with my husband as we pedal along the coast. To...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, I think I hit a nerve this week. I asked my mastermind group about their relationship with their phones. What do you love about it? What do you hate—or wish were different? Boy, did they have a lot to share! And yes, I kind of knew this was a hot topic...but not this hot🔥 Some of it was what you might expect. The scrolling. The distractions. Picking up your phone to do one thing and somehow ending up doing something else entirely. But there were also things I hadn’t thought about....
21 days ago • 2 min read
Shenandoah River, tree turning red in fall, two turtles sitting on log Sometimes it takes a few days away from our daily routine to remember how much we miss when we’re moving too fast. And yes, I help people slow down and unplug, and even I need reminders like this too. This weekend I’ve been in West Virginia with friends, soaking up time in nature. I’ve noticed the river. The turtles. The one tree turning colors…yes, only one! I’ve also noticed how our conversations went deeper than...
28 days ago • 1 min read
What my daily self-care looks like...a walk outdoors each morning. Last week, I was on a call when someone asked: How do I show up for myself other than on my self-care day? That question has stuck with me because it's at the core of my work...and I don't think we talk about enough. We treat self-care like something we put on the calendar for later. The massage, the day off, the retreat, the digital detox. And I love those things. But if that's the only place your self-care lives, it's not...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
My magnetic words from this morning that turned into my wish for you. I was talking with a friend earlier this week about how tired she was and the heaviness of it all. Work. Life. The world. All the things. At one point, she got teary and said something like, “What is this all for?” And I got it. I've been there. And I go back there from time to time. There are times when you look around and wonder: Is this it? We work. We take care of others, our work and all of our "adult"...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Two tiny mushrooms in moss that I noticed on a walk. Someone asked me this week how to go from knowing they need to rest to actually resting. And I wish I had an easy answer for that question. Because the truth is…you can know you need to rest and still never actually rest. It’s just like any other habit you’re trying to build: You can know you need to exercise more and still not exercise. You can know you need to eat healthier and still buy the junk food. That’s the strange thing about...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Sunrise at the beach As you read this, I’ve already had my feet in the sand. I’m at the Outer Banks in North Carolina for a few days, and I’ve been getting up before sunrise to walk down to the water. Which, if you know me, is a little funny…not the sunrise part since I’m an early riser but the beach part. I’m not really a beach person. I’d rather be traipsing through the woods somewhere in the mountains. But sunrise at the beach? That’s something else entirely. There’s something about...
2 months ago • 2 min read
What my recess looked like this week - biking on a rail trail in MD. Remember recess as a kid? It was just a given that we would take a break in the middle of the day. Lunch, recess, and then come back to class. We accept that for kids. We would never say “you need to power through” to an eight-year-old. So why do we say that to ourselves? Is it because we’ve “grown up”? That kids need those breaks and adults don’t? That this is just how we “adult”? Maybe. But I also think that we carry a lot...
3 months ago • 1 min read
On the left: Where my husband and friends are this weekend. On the right: Where I spent the weekend by myself. This weekend, I chose to stay home while my husband and a group of our friends headed to Deep Creek Lake in Maryland to raft and hike. All the things I LOVE! And I said, I'm going to sit this one out. I'd been traveling for almost three weeks straight. No weekend at home and no real downtime. I needed space to be alone and to really recharge. So when this trip came up, I made the...
3 months ago • 4 min read