Catch Yourself Sliding Into Overwhelm Before You Get Sick, Quit or Revolt Did you know that your physical body is the last place dis-ease and the effects of overwhelm and burnout show up? By the time you feel exhausted or foggy or show other physical symptoms, you’ve already depleted yourself…

I sat down on international women’s day to write a letter to the hearts of the women of the world, and the men who also cared to listen. The following is what came. It is more of a letter for your contemplation and consideration, an invitation and an opening to…

Self love is one of those things we should be learning about from the time we can walk or enter pre-school, and all throughout our adult lives. But sadly, most of us never received an education on what self-love really is. We confuse it with self-esteem. Or mistakenly believe it’s…

It was our third date. I will remember it for the rest of my life. Not because this man became my life partner, but because of the three sentences he uttered that reframed my entire relationship with men. We had been walking down the streets of Chicago, sharing stories about…

I am a big believer that how you complete a year has a potent impact on how you begin and live the next. …

Feminine super powers for creating a new equation for success There is a reason we find it so hard to “find balance” or “create work/ life balance.” We are smart women, yet no matter how much sleep we get, or how many productivity strategies we implement or weekly yoga classes…

I’ll never forget the day when I realized that I had a mean girl living inside my head. Just like a mean girl on the playground, she could make me feel left out, lonely and like I didn’t belong. Or like the mean girls I had encountered in my corporate…

It’s Hard to Be Happy When Someone’s Mean To You All the Time Every day you have tens of thousands of thoughts run through your mind. The vast majority of them are negative. And too often, that negativity is directed at the one person who deserves it least — you. …

Over the course of the last decade of working with women and girls and the voice in their head that can fill even the most confident of us with negative self-talk and self-doubt, I’ve identified 33 common self-sabotaging habits most women and girls suffer from. Some for a short time…