The view from my window is gorgeous. Snow has been consistently falling for hours and I am loving it. Well, most of it. Part of me feels trapped and stuck. It’s hugely unwise for me to drive, and my good winter coat is at my office, only a mile way, and yet of little use [...]

For the past 2 decades, I’ve been working to keep my weight in check. I’ve seen a naturopath, nutritionist, personal trainers, Weight Watchers, other diet groups in person and on-line, Overeaters Anonymous, and even used my coach to work on my weight. Alot has stuck with me. And so has alot of extra calories.
So, I [...]

I had a my thyroid removed two years ago due to cancer. This type of thyroid cancer is very treatable yet life threatening if I hadn’t had the surgery. I was told that all I would need is a small pill once a day to replace the hormones generated by the thyroid and I’d be [...]

Lately I’ve been reading over some previous blog entries and through my journal. I’ve had wonderful awareness over the past several months. Some of my entries, however, seem like they were written by another person. It’s like I experience a part of myself and allow it to fly away from my consciousness.
There can be a [...]

I’ve just ended a call with a Master of Coaching, Steve Mitten. Along with at least 20 members of the NW Coach Association, I coordinated this call that brought one of the leaders of the coaching industry directly to our organization. I was nervous, anxious, worried, and fearful that it wouldn’t go well. Maybe someone [...]

A few years ago when I decided to become a coach I joined my local professional coaches association. The NW Coaches Association is a local chapter of the ICF, or International Coach Federation. Within just a few months I had joined a group to develop projects and programs and now I serve on the Board of [...]

Quiz: You can create the energy needed to accomplish a task. True or False.
If you answered true, I love you, you optimist. And what you experience may appear to be a creation of energy. What you see, feel, and sense is actually a transformation of energy. The law of conservation of energy actually states that energy [...]

I’m working on a project to create clarity on a particular issue in my life. I’ll let you in - it’s about who I serve and what I do to serve them. My challenge is not that I can’t identify the people I enjoy working with - they are brilliant, caring, compassionate, and creative people [...]

This weekend I was walking through a neighborhood and saw a lawn sign for a person running for a state representative seat in Oregon. Turns out I was in a musical we wrote together with others years ago. Turn Loose the Voices was a showcase of brilliant, compassionate, politically savvy youth (me included) that ran for [...]

I’m on my last day of a 12 day vacation. I’m in a motel in Medford, Oregon - a place that has held many fears for me. A past of college, dating, partying, and making stupid college mistakes. Now it’s time to make up.
I used to swim competitively for about three years. I don’t think [...]