Embarrassing Brave Things I Did
Signed up to run a 5k.
Signed up for a group training for a 5k.
Drove my husband’s Audi convertible (Weird, I know, but just driving his car makes me a bit…
Recently my husband Dave and I went on a training run for the 5k we’re going to do on Thanksgiving morning. It was our first “long” run — a mile and a half. I’d been run/walking for about a week before this run. And going up and down…
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Fall is one reason why I never could love L.A. Spring too. Even the challenges of summer and winter extremes in the mid-Atlantic/Northeast. But especially Fall. When I lived in SoCal, I felt particularly depressed in October. There were pumpkins, I discovered…
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Hello Thrivers! I’m writing to you today from a mild state of shock as I just signed myself up to run a 5k on Thanksgiving morning AND to show up for a training session on Tuesday night and Saturday mornings at 7:30 am. What. In. The. World???!!!
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Hi Thrivers,
This week my friend and colleague Larissa Parson is our guest writer. She's an embodied joy coach, creator of The Slow Burn, an online community supporting all women and non-binary folks who…
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Hello Thrivers,
If you are finding these weekly reflections helpful, one of the most amazing things you could do (for me, and dare I say for our collective healing) is to share the goodness…
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This morning I met a mother and daughter pair—we’ll call them Jessie and Ava—who live across the street from me. They are very familiar to me because Jessie, the mom, stands in the doorway to their building while the daughter, Ava, plays on the sidewalk. Sometimes Ava is alone…
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Do current events have you feeling afraid? — It’s understandable. There’s some scary stuff going down, and more that’s predicted to go down. Fear is an appropriate and important emotion that can keep you safe, or help you get moving when there are...
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Back in August I had a few days in one of my favorite regions of the world – the Finger Lakes in New York. If you haven’t been there, I hope one day you’ll get the chance. As you’ve likely noticed, if you’ve been around here for a bit, I’ve started listening to Nature Beings as if they are communicating with me. I heard an interesting message from Poison Ivy last summer.
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