Blog & Articles

I wrote Hope Leans Forward in 2022 while experiencing   prolong grief.   There were days when hope felt very distant and yet, I was compelled to write this book.  Since writing the book, I’ve received countless encouraging messages from people all over the world.  Many identified with searching for meaning in the loss, searching for hope in the midst of grief. I recall the words of Jungian analyst, James Hollis, in his brilliant book, Living an Examined Life.  He says, “Our soul can manage a great deal:  suffering loss, isolation, and much more if it feels that there is a purpose to the suffering.” The question that I…

Continue reading Hope Leans Forward

There is a quiet generosity in being curious about another person. In a world where we often rush to share our own stories, choosing to pause, ask, and truly listen may be one of the simplest ways we help someone feel heard, seen, and understood. I was reminded of this recently at a dinner party where I knew very few people. The conversation was warm and lively, yet I drove home realizing no one had asked me a single question about myself. It wasn’t that I wanted attention. I simply longed for someone to wonder who I was. The writer…

Continue reading Curiosity as an Act of Love: A Monthly Love Letter Reflection

We speak often of love, but perhaps not often enough of what love asks of us. Love is not merely a feeling that arrives when circumstances are favorable or when relationships are easy. Love is a discipline of the heart. It is a daily practice of choosing openness over fear, curiosity over certainty, and compassion over indifference. It asks us to see beyond first impressions, beyond assumptions, beyond the many ways we divide ourselves from one another. There is no shortage of voices encouraging us to draw lines between “us” and “them.” We are told who belongs and who does…

Continue reading Love as a Way of Living

A Love Letter to Your Body, As You Are: A Monthly Reflection Love is speaking to your body with kindness, even when you feel dissatisfied with how it looks. Love is choosing care over criticism when thoughts about weight and appearance arise. Love is understanding that your body is shaped by more than effort, and meeting it with compassion. Love is nourishing, resting, and supporting your body as it is, not only as you wish it to be. Love is remaining with yourself, in this body, and allowing that presence to guide how you care for it. There are many…

Continue reading A Love Letter to Your Body, As You Are

Expanding the Conversation Father’s Day often brings forward appreciation for what fathers offer. The steady presence. The responsibility carried over time.  These expressions of care are meaningful and continue to shape lives in profound and lasting ways. Fatherhood, like all forms of care, is not limited to a single way of being. A more gender-expansive understanding of parenting invites a wider recognition of how care is lived and expressed. Qualities often associated with fatherhood, such as guidance, protection, presence, and support, move across a broader range of human experience, shaped by relationship rather than confined by expectation. A gender-expansive lens recognizes…

Continue reading Father’s Day and the Mental Health of Men: