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The Way Home

This is a photo of my home. It’s a ranch in California. I don’t live there yet! It isn’t mine at this moment. I also admit that the horses and barn are aspirational. But that land – dry, scrubby, fragrant chaparral – and the ocean – cold, vast – just…

Allison EvansSeptember 6, 2024

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What Is Joy, and How Can You Experience More of It?

What is joy?It’s such a compelling concept, but no dictionary definition I’ve ever read seems to capture it.If we can understand what it is, then we’ll know how to experience more of it.First, what it isn’t.Though joy can make you happy, it isn’t plain happiness. Happiness is what you feel…

Allison EvansSeptember 13, 2023

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The Tao of Barbie

Warning: This post contains spoilers. What did you think of the Barbie movie? I already wanted to see it, but the passion and commentary it has inspired – with fans making an event of it by dressing in pink and posting thrilled photos on social media, the hot takes that…

Allison EvansAugust 11, 2023

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Are You a Heroine?

“I have a confession to make.” After three days together and almost non-stop catching up, my friend was getting vulnerable. “I’ve never read Middlemarch.” I sputtered for how to respond. Not because she had committed some crime. Because I was groping for an explanation as to why I am so…

Allison EvansJuly 14, 2023

Love & Relationships Potpourri

The Heroines Retreat

My coaching group, Be the Heroine, just had its first in-person retreat. We met for a long weekend in beautiful Ojai, California. It had been a cold, wet winter there, but spring sprang on the day of our arrival. The rain stopped, the sun warmed, and the hillsides from Los Angeles…

Allison EvansApril 11, 2023

Getting Things Done Potpourri

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…

Allison EvansDecember 22, 2022

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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…

Allison EvansDecember 16, 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…

Allison EvansSeptember 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…

Allison EvansJuly 10, 2020

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