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Year in Review

Do you do a year in review? The year in review is a powerful tool of personal growth, and if you’re reading this, you are someone who cares about personal growth! So, if you don’t already do it, here is a template from me, so that you can join the…
December 16, 2022
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Set Your New Year Intentions

Intentions are the cool older cousin of New Year’s Resolutions – the one you only see once a year because she lives at the beach in California with her free-spirited mom, but they always come home for the holidays. New Year’s Resolutions are about hard work, willpower, and fixing what’s…
December 22, 2022
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Waiting Is a State of Mind

We’ve been watching a British tv show called Grand Designs. It follows ordinary people as they build extraordinary houses. One recent episode featured a back-to-the-land, self-sufficient family who built their house by hand. When it was finished, it looked handmade but not homemade – it was gorgeously crafted, a work of…
September 25, 2020
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A Box of Chocolates

Little, Mighty, Coach-y Shifts of Perspective Patience v. presence Patience is considered a virtue, but I think we can do better than that. I prefer to cultivate presence instead. Patience comes from the Latin root pati, which means to suffer or endure. Presence, on the other hand, comes from the…
July 10, 2020
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There’s Nothing Wrong with You

Above: Mom and me A few weeks before she died, my mom poked an accusing finger into her belly and said with disgust, “I’ve gained so much weight.” I always winced when she took aim at her body that way. To me – to everyone – she was beautiful. But…
July 3, 2020
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Racism and Good Intentions

“I’m sad they don’t know my heart. I’m a good person.” My friend Anna said this after being criticized for one of her Facebook posts. It was the third day of the recent Black Lives Matter uprisings, and she posted a meme about Labrador Retrievers. (Maybe you saw one like…
June 19, 2020
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Antiracism for Beginners (Like Me)

No one can look at the video of George Floyd being slowly asphyxiated by an indifferent police officer and not be appalled and enraged. And yet this is not the first time something like this has happened. In fact, one of the reasons it’s so appalling is because it is…
June 6, 2020
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