I’ve recently become aware of how many million times a day I say to myself, I need ______. Current and/or past I need has looked like: I need rest. I need to be more organized. I need to write. I need wine.  I need a vacation.  I need space. I need peace.  I need freedom.  I need […]

Did you know that the mind cannot hold two emotions at the same time? It’s one of the many reasons I love practicing celebration and appreciation. When I notice feelings of stress and discomfort, celebration and appreciation are go-tos for me in any given moment. They help ground me, keeping me from getting swept away […]

Five years ago, I was sleep-walking through my life toggling between auto-pilot and fire-drill modes. Lost in the hustle and noise of my do, serve, perform, achieve and be who others need me to be life. I was drinking wine, almost-nightly, to quiet the noise and the chaos and to take the much-needed edge off. I […]

When I finally came into awareness that wine was taking up way too much space in my life (not just the actual time spent drinking it) but even more so the large amount of mental real estate that was occupied by wine, I did what anyone does when you discover a problem. I looked for […]

For years, I thought self-care meant several glasses of wine, some junky snacks and a Netflix binge. Or a mom’s night out with girlfriends where we let our hair down, drank too much wine and got to take a break from being responsible for tiny humans for a minute. Or a weekend away with the […]