This morning, I attended a senior event for my daughter. Students were milling around, familiar faces were handing out donuts, and people were chatting. Right outside the doors, I watched a senior burst into tears. She was not physically alone; she was walking right beside a friend. But you could tell instantly that something was…
Aren’t you excited about school mornings? Totally, me too. (Insert me dying laughing right here! HAHAHA!) Here is the truth: before 8 AM, the chaos of getting kids out the door can turn the best of us into people screaming, “Ugh… Why doesn’t anyone have their shoes on?” I have been there. When you are…
Growing up in a family where hard work was overvalued, I carried that exact pattern straight into my career. I was not consciously telling myself to overfunction or pick up extra responsibilities every day. I just walked into the office thinking, how can I be helpful? Where can I add value? So I became the…
You hate your job, but quitting simply isn’t an option right now. You need the paycheck, you need the health insurance, and you need money at the end of the month to pay for childcare, groceries, and everything else. Maybe you are the highest salary in your household, or maybe your schedule is the only…
Do you ever catch yourself staring at your screen at the end of the day asking, how did I run out of time again? Why does everyone else seem to hold all these spinning plates while I am over here just trying to figure out where the last three hours went? If you are catching…
If you are in your late 30s or 40s and finding it suddenly hard to force yourself to do everyday work, you are not alone. You sit down to tackle a routine task, and your brain just goes completely flat. Everything feels boring, vague, or entirely pointless. You used to be the person who could…
There is something that we aren’t talking about that is adding work friction to the middle of our careers. My personal experience and those of my clients keep pointing to the “sneaky 6” – Six key shifts that happen in mid-career that seem to be shutting down our brain’s focus and also our wellbeing. These…
I need you to hear this right now if your brain has been feeling kind of foggy, checked out, unfocused, or weirdly overloaded lately. You are not lazy. You are not getting too old. And yet, you are definitely not imagining it. Your brain actually does feel different. A lot of us in our late…
From the time I was eight years old, I hated nagging. My grandma was a nag, and boy, did she drive the household nuts. Year after year, I watched people pull away from her. Avoid conversations with her. Get selective hearing while she was handing out chores. Fast forward 40 years, and here I am…
We say things like, I wish life felt lighter. Or, I wish my to-do list wasn’t so long. We say it all the time. But the second we start to think about what we would actually let go of, a real panic sets in. Our whole nervous system tightens up. Everything suddenly begins to feel…
