• Woman, calm, in beauty, underwater, powerful, happy, A woman's happiness is her power

    As A Woman, Your Happiness Is Your Power

    Why some people get uncomfortable when women are happy. Tell me if this is something youโ€™ve noticed, suspected, or outright discovered, that thereโ€™s this special something about a rested woman. An unbothered spirit, a calm woman or even relatively steady woman that youโ€™d think everyone would celebrate. But apparently, according to some corners of these here interwebs and in real life too, a woman who is genuinely content can make far too many people uncomfortable… strangely angered even. Freaking funny, isnโ€™t it? Honestly, it’s a place I’d happily wallow in forever. But since life insists on life-ing, I’m learning to savor the moments, intentional and random, that I get to…

  • Staying Grounded in “The Gap” Between Now and What’s Next

    Thereโ€™s that odd and uncomfortable space between your current life and the life youโ€™re still chasing โ€” and sometimes even between who you are and who you know you could be. And I donโ€™t mean youโ€™re ready to trade in your life as a GenXer, corporate baddie, whose kids are grown and almost flown, to become Dr. Jean Grey from Marvel. Able to read peopleโ€™s minds or control their thoughts. While that does sound delicious, itโ€™s not the direction Iโ€™m headed in. Iโ€™m talking about that gap, that itch for the โ€˜thingsโ€™ you continue to want to grab a hold of and run with, to stop it from slipping away.…