There is a popular idea in personal development that says the brain searches for evidence to prove whatever we already believe. If you believe you are incapable, you will notice evidence of inadequacy...

It usually arrives at a quiet moment. You were the one who felt the tension in the room before anyone named it. You read between the lines, softened your words, chose the higher ground, and...

Lately, I have been sitting with a question I don't have a tidy answer for. What actually makes someone teachable? Not in the sense of being agreeable or easy to manage, but in the deeper sense of staying...

I have felt an affinity for Carl Rogers since I first learned about his work and recently decided to study him in more depth. My understanding of empathy, previously a rather static concept–either you...

Take a quick and simple snapshot of your last year. What changed? What improved? What’s going wrong? What’s your North Star? Most people on the planet cannot answer these questions. They are so stuck in stress...

Every profession has a moment when the manual goes silent. Procedures preserve hard lessons, create discipline, and protect lives. But reality does not arrive in chapters. It arrives all at once, with incomplete...

What happens when the people who have spent their lives being overlooked stop waiting for permission? They build companies. They build communities. They build opportunities. They build industries...

A psychologist called an autistic therapist about a client they shared. The psychologist was conducting an autism assessment and wanted to know whether the client met the criteria. The questions came...

Why the choices that define your life may have begun long before you were born. For more than a decade, I have accompanied people through profound processes of personal transformation. Again and again...

There is a particular kind of suffering that rarely gets talked about. It isn't the suffering of a toxic workplace. It isn't the suffering of burnout. It isn't even the suffering of failure. It is the suffering...

Where is your safe and sacred place? Where do you find growth? Is it in nature, with friends, at home, or maybe in another country while on vacation? Where do you feel most like yourself? For me, it...

Have you ever coughed, sneezed, laughed, exercised, or made a sudden movement and unexpectedly leaked a little urine? For many women, the answer is yes. Bladder leakage is often...

There's a conversation I have more often than I'd like. A parent reaches out, sometimes frustrated, sometimes just confused, and starts describing the program their son or daughter has been in. They talk about the...

I was about seven years old when I discovered my dad wasn't the strongest man in the world. Christopher Reeve was. I saw Superman at the cinema, and I was completely captivated. You have to remember that...

A couple of weeks ago, while co-hosting a gathering, I said something that has continued to deepen for me: “Some of the most honest answers to the most honest questions aren’t spoken through words.” We live in a...

Lately, it seems like everywhere we turn, there’s something new to worry about. Rising prices. Political disagreements. Economic uncertainty. Social media debates. It’s no wonder people are feeling stressed...

Psychedelic medicine is having a moment. Podcasts, retreats, clinical trials, breakthrough therapy designations. The conversation has moved from the fringe to the mainstream, and for good reason. For many...

What if the most powerful force shaping your life isn't what happens to you, but the perspective through which you experience it? From neuroscience and psychology to philosophy, spirituality, leadership...

Between every thought and every reaction, there is a moment. Most people never find it. In that gap lives something precious, the freedom to choose how you respond rather than simply execute the...

How do you rot what never grew? We use the phrase moral decay to describe conduct that shows no moral character, but decay is decomposition, and decomposition requires something that was once alive...

We often say that human beings are afraid of uncertainty. But uncertainty, by definition, contains no conclusion. It does not tell us that something bad will happen. It does not tell us that we will fail, be...

"Fake it till you make it." Few pieces of advice have been repeated more often in business, leadership and personal development. For many, it has served as permission to step beyond self...

A month ago, my husband and I travelled to spend time with our adult children. Like many parents, I had quietly imagined what those few days would look like. Long conversations. Family bonding.

For much of my life, I have been very good at creating routines, schedules, systems, plans, and goals. I like knowing what needs to happen and when it needs to happen. There is comfort in...