Is FOMO Running Your Show?
Birth of FOMO I’ve been semi-run by Fear of Missing Out, a-k-a FOMO, since I was quite young. My parents grew up in Houston and because they both enjoyed our extended family, we went to Houston frequently, driving in on Friday evening after my dad got off work. Following Saturday night dinners at my aunt’s […]
Breakthrough Your Comfort Zones
Breakthrough. At first I was disturbed to see that the first definition on dictionary.com uses war language: “a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy’s front-line defense.” Yet the more I thought about breakthrough from this angle, I saw that when we are longing for a breakthrough in our lives, we […]
Stop Pretending You Don’t Know
“Oh, my god! Mom, I think I just saw a whale! Yes! I see the tail! Oh my god! There’s the spray again!” I leapt off my cozy sofa to stand in front of the giant window in my living room, my eyes widened to see as much of the ocean in front of me […]
When You Think You Know Best!
One of my first blog posts on being in the grips of the Chief Operating Officer of Control mask was about the time I tried to tell a man in the film business, in his 50’s, the correct way to purchase our movie tickets. After my third interruption of his interaction at the ticketing window, […]
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Trail Map!
O.K. y’all – there is a TON of stuff happening astrologically speaking. You have no doubt heard terms that are meaningless to you around the numerous retrogrades, full moon, eclipses and what it all means may feel like mumbo-jumbo you don’t smoke! Here’s my Leadership-Coach-Priestess-What-You-Need-To-Know guide to it all! Uranus went retrograde on Aug 2nd […]
Self-Love Permission
Recently, I found myself on the brink of self-frustration. I was blaming the weather, lack of time and anything else I could think of for the fact that I wasn’t doing that thing called moving my body (exercise!). The trap door opened on self-derision. So I sat myself down, took three deep breaths then focused […]
Opportunity or Control?
I ping-ponged between my happy-go-lucky-sunshine-self and hot-head-know-it-all Aries in my younger years. I learned in my twenties that my flash-point anger was one way I tried to control situations. I quickly realized opportunities diminished when I lost my happy-go-lucky-sunshine-self. These days, I know that opportunity for all manner of unexpected and amazing things comes in […]
Vulnerability and Strength
There’s an old saying that goes something like: We must learn to bend like the willow tree or we may snap like the mighty oak. I love watching the sway of willow trees in the wind. There is a gracefulness and beauty as their limbs flutter. Allowing yourself to flow and dance in life’s winds can […]
Build Your Self Love Muscles!
A client once said to me, “I hate who I have become.” I replied, you aren’t that damn Chief Operating Officer of Control Mask, you’ve just been in the habit of wearing it for so long, you have come to think it is you. We took a deep dive into that mask and once she […]
Invisibility in Middle Age
In exploring the great invisibility of middle-aged women, I decided to do my geek out thing and look up the definition of invisible in several dictionaries. Whether as a noun or adjective, invisible speaks to something or someone being unrecognized or ignored and often, marginalized as a result. Let that settle in. We aren’t seen. […]
