Excerpt- on Grief…

Excerpt- on Grief…

We aren’t shown how to be grieving citizens. As in how to stay in life as we weep, rage and feel the holes in the heart. Our youthful culture, made of an amalgam of mostly immigrants who abandoned their own traditions, does not know how to hold grief as a part of...
My Father’s Boardroom…

My Father’s Boardroom…

Musings on my support of social impact leaders in their overwhelm around leading self, household and enterprise:   “I’m totally losing it” said the well-dressed, 40-year old CEO with desperation in her voice. She just came out of a tough conversation with her chief of...
Going Back to Go Forward

Going Back to Go Forward

I get asked all the time, “Do I need to tell you my whole story? Is it really relevant to talk about the past when I’m struggling today?”  The answer, like most things, is yes and no.  If we were better at emotional hygiene, we may not need to go back to last week,...
Spiraling From the Catacombs

Spiraling From the Catacombs

 I don’t know about your experience, but I find Scorpio season spiritually ass kicking. The underbelly is up for examination everywhere we look- whatever we have evaded, shoved aside or distracted ourselves from is now all around us and there’s nowhere to hide. From...
Living well, dying well

Living well, dying well

  This was the primary teaching at the recent MAPS conference I attended on the use of psychedelics and death and dying. The hope is that by embracing the inevitable conclusion of cycles and eventual final death of our lives, that we can cherish the gift of the...
Is work becoming the Walmart of needs fulfillment? 

Is work becoming the Walmart of needs fulfillment? 

  An excerpt from my book writing process…I intend to share more of these with you, and ask for your input as I go along to see if it lands.  There’s a movement afoot to bring vulnerability, uncertainty, risk, intellectual or emotional exposure and...