This summer my emotions, like the heat, have been combustible. After a very long hiatus and lots of trepidation, I’ve begun online dating again which means I’ve been ghosted, love bombed, and bread crumbed, dating lingo for wrestling with how to be a decent human being in a virtual world. It’s been a jagged path […]
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Pleasure in Pausing: Summer Stillness, the Ultimate Adventure
Nearly everyone I talk to is traveling somewhere or has just returned from someplace. Maybe it’s post-COVID pent up desire to explore, making up for months and for some years of lock down. At such a time it feels counterintuitive to consider going nowhere, going slow, being still, and yet that feels like the most […]
Celebrating St. James Day & Walk in Beauty
El Camino is Within You, Always Today, July 25th is the feast day of St. James, the patron saint of the Pilgrimage of El Camino de Santiago, Spain. As a Walk in Beauty Pilgrim you know first-hand about the magic, comradery, authentic, heartfelt stories shared, moments of discovery, laughter, tears, renewal, challenge, and accomplishment of […]
Embodying Summer’s Lushness
It’s been a wild and lush summer of learning, growing, and stretching outside my comfort zone, and I’m having a blast. I’m taking courses on Gestalt therapy and training, centering leadership presence with Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi, embodied social justice with Staci K. Haines, rest as resistance with Tricia Hersey, coach diversity training to […]
Black Joy: Celebrating and Honoring Juneteenth
“Joy is a part of our inheritance. . . .It is my responsibility in this lifetime, in this generation to really revel in the joy that has been passed on to me through the impossible, through the insurmountable, through so much grotesque horror and brutality (of enslaved Black people). That this joy was passed forward […]
Hope Leans Forward Wins Nautilus Gold Award
I’m incredibly thrilled that my latest book, Hope Leans Forward, Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace received Nautilus’ Gold Award for Eastern Spirituality. When I started writing, I had the belief that healing from grief is not an individual thing, that speaking about it and sharing it with others is healing. I wrote the book […]
Unshakeable Self-Awareness
Last month I introduced confidence as the kickoff theme for our monthly Women of Color in Big Law Cohort. Each month I’ll offer an important highlight from the program. This month we focus on self-awareness as the starting point of leadership development. How would you rate your level of self-awareness? You’re probably among the 95% who think they are […]
Cultivate Confidence through Understanding Your Behavioral Work Style
This month we launched a year-long leadership development program designed specifically for women of color in Big Law at the associate level as they prepare for more significant roles in their law firms. Big law is hard and it is even harder for women of color. Diverse representation of women of color continues to lag […]
LAST CHANCE: It’s not too late to register for the Annual Spring Retreat!
Join me for Braving Your Way through Life’s Daily Challenges, an annual retreat of the Opening Heart Mindfulness Community on April 1st @ 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Eastern Time. Being brave is not the same as being perfect. We build a better world not through striving for perfection but through cultivating understanding, compassion, and peace in action. […]
Grow Love for Yourself and Others
How do you grow an open heart especially when you’re not feeling open? Enlarging the heart with greater kindness, love, and compassion is a practice. During this year’s Opening Heart Mindfulness Community Annual Spring Retreat on April 1st from 9:00 to 4:30 pm Eastern Time you’ll learn practices to move through life with greater kindness for yourself, forming […]
