The Meditation I Didn't Know I Was doing
As I write this, our daughter is beside me watching VeggieTales. Tony is at the kitchen counter eating breakfast. Mary is cutting up apple slices, making a snack plate. Billy is testing supplements. Kacie is packing a to-go bag.
How to Start Before You Feel Ready
It continues to amaze me the invisible yet tangible guidance that has led us all to this moment. To me writing this, and you reading it.
My Most Humiliating Moment
I remember the first time I stood on a stage.
Tony introduced me. I heard my name. And I froze.
Unseen Angels: What Happened When a Stranger Saw My Tears
In a world that can at times feel noisy, fractured, and desperately starved of human connection and real intimacy with one another, I walked into her care home and experienced the very best of who we are as human beings.
What Is Already Sacred
As I sit here typing this edition the rain has been steady, softly pattering against the windows, day and night. And with it, there’s a quiet renewal.
Our Daughter Is Our Greatest Teacher. And She's Four.
This past week, our daughter was moving through a wave. I sat down beside her and asked her to join me:
Trusting Your Inner Knowing
This past week, a soft arrangement of pink roses has lived at the center of our kitchen table. Each evening at dinner, our daughter shares what she notices, what is opening, what is falling. It has become, without planning, a simple practice in presence.
How to Let Go of What You Can't Control
This past week, Tony and I sat in conversation with our friend, author, Michael Singer. It was the kind of conversation that leaves you quieter on the inside, more spacious somehow, like something in you has been gently rearranged.
To The Women Who Have Shaped Us
Who is the woman in your life who is overdue to be truly witnessed and celebrated? What would it mean to tell her so — today?
What Love Invites Us To Notice, Again and Again...
As we move into Valentine's week, I've been reflecting on love…
not as an idea, but as a shared experience.
The kind of love that invites us into our vulnerability.
The kind that invites us into presence.
Celebrating Life
This morning, I watched our four-year-old daughter celebrate her daddy's birthday. She didn't overthink it.
Have You Forgotten Your Younger Self?
I keep a photo of my three-year-old self on my vanity. Every morning, as I'm getting ready, I look at her.
The Sanctuary Tony and I Teturn To...
As the final moments of our Time to Rise Summit comes to fruition, I find myself reflecting on what we've witnessed and experienced, people opening, remembering choosing again, touching upon their true nature.
How A.A. Changed My Life
There are things we grow up around that we don’t realize are shaping us until much later. For me, that was recovery.
A Powerful Practice to Deepen Love
Tony and I had the privilege of sharing an intimate exchange with our dear friend Esther Perel at our Platinum Partnership event in Mexico.
What Miscarriages Taught Me About Surrender...
There was a time when I wanted to be a mom more than anything.
I said it. I felt it. I believed it. I longed for it.
You’re Allowed To Begin Again.
What if we don't need the calendar to turn in order to begin again?
What if life is inviting us, this moment, this day, to begin again?