Let your love roar like a lion
At the start of this year, fresh in a new city and on the brink of turning 45, I pulled a tarot card for guidance. The message was simple: Let your love roar like a lion. I rolled my eyes. Love, to me, has always been soft. A warm blanket …
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Channeling my 6-year-old self
When I was six years old, I was blazingly unshy. I didn’t “meet” neighbors, I introduced myself to them. I would march across the street, knock on a stranger’s door solo, and say something like, “Hi! I love your Mustang. I’ve never been in your house before. Can I have …
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Let Yourself Be Moved
Sometimes life gets stuck on the same track. The song you’re swaying to isn’t bad or painful. But everything becomes just quietly repetitive. You look up, and whole years have slipped by. Not because anything was wrong, but because everything was the same. No change of school year, job, relationship, …
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2025: Death, Rebirth, and Rediscovery
As I reflect on 2025, one phrase keeps returning: Death and rebirth. Not just as metaphors, but as invitations. This year asked me to let go. To step out of roles I’d outgrown, and into something quieter, deeper, more honest. To trust what was emerging, even when I couldn’t yet …
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The future of work: thriving, not just surviving
Imagine waking up to the same routine. You drink your coffee, skim through emails, check Slack notifications. Your inbox is already overflowing, meetings are stacked back-to-back, and there’s a pit in your stomach that tightens with each passing hour. You finish the day exhausted, yet somehow, it doesn’t feel like …
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Overthinking isn’t protection—it’s a prison of what-ifs
There’s a difference between doing your due diligence and dismantling yourself with doubt. You know the pattern—obsessively reviewing every detail, scanning for what you missed, bracing for the booby trap. It feels like smart thinking. Like preparation. Like safety. But what it really is… is fear. Fear that if you …
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The dance of deception (and how I stepped off the dance floor)
This year has offered me a masterclass in manipulation. Not the overt kind that storms through the door, easy to recognize and reject. No, this was subtler. Trickier. Wearing a different outfit each time, but always with the same intent: to bend my perception or behavior into a shape someone …
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The body keeps score. But it also keeps possibility.
You’ve probably heard it before: “The body keeps the score.” And it’s true. Your body remembers. The clenched jaw from years of silencing yourself. The tension in your shoulders from carrying responsibilities that were never yours. The tight chest from the times you weren’t picked, weren’t heard, weren’t safe. Trauma …
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Being liked is not the same as being loved
We’re taught from a young age how to be liked. Be polite. Be pleasant. Don’t rock the boat. Smile, nod, be agreeable. We learn to read a room before we learn to read ourselves. We become fluent in the subtle art of editing: Softening opinions. Swallowing needs. Offering the most …
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Avoidance is not protection, it’s postponement
There’s a part of you that already knows this. That unopened envelope on the kitchen counter. The uncomfortable conversation you keep rescheduling. The dream you talk about but never move toward. The grief you keep distracting yourself from. You tell yourself it’s not the right time. That you’ll deal with …
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