Why Insight Alone Rarely Changes Your Life

Midlife is often described as a time of awakening. You see patterns more clearly. You recognize what no longer fits. You feel a quiet urgency to live differently, more intentionally, ...

Why Insight Alone Rarely Changes Your Life

3 Reasons Successful People Stay Spiritually Stuck

On practice, integration, and grace One theme keeps showing up in all of my conversations lately. In my coaching, workshops, and networking, accomplished executives, successful entrepreneurs, and leadership coaches with ...

3 Reasons Successful People Stay Spiritually Stuck

Precision Medicine and Longevity: Understanding the Waves of Aging

Most of us picture aging as a gentle downhill grade, a gradual process that moves predictably forward. Biology tells a different story. In a landmark Nature Aging study, researchers from ...

Precision Medicine and Longevity: Understanding the Waves of Aging

Curiosity and Wonder: Essential Macronutrients for Mental Vitality

Do you take supplements to keep your brain sharp as you age? Lion’s mane, omega-3s, maybe some B vitamins? I imagine many of us do. But how many of us ...

Curiosity and Wonder: Essential Macronutrients for Mental Vitality

Is Your Iceberg Flipping?

I just saw my first iceberg. It was as awe-inspiring as you might imagine – massive, silent, formed over centuries. My mind immediately went to the familiar metaphor:“Most of it ...

Is Your Iceberg Flipping?

The House of Belonging

I awokethis morningin the gold lightturning this wayand that thinking fora momentit was onedaylike any other. Butthe veil had gonefrom mydarkened heartandI thought it must have been the quietcandlelightthat filled ...

The House of Belonging

Women, Power, and the Thresholds of Change

When a power outage in Costa Rica kept Leslie Salmon Jones from joining our recent live session, Women Thriving Beyond Transitions: A Conversation on Power, Change, and What’s Next, she ...

Women, Power, and the Thresholds of Change

On Numbing

In my intensive leadership programs, I ask executives to make a rigorous inventory of all the ways they numb themselves. I normalize this practice because these are strategies we all ...

On Numbing

You’re Not Lost. You’re in Transition 

Anna arrived at our program looking like someone who had lost her footing on familiar ground. I’ve seen that look hundreds of times. The particular combination of competence and confusion. ...

You’re Not Lost. You’re in Transition 

The Question No One Prepares You For

Maybe you built something remarkable. Maybe you sold your company, stepped away from a role that defined you for years, or simply reached an inflection point you’ve been climbing toward ...

The Question No One Prepares You For