Many moons ago, a colleague described me as being FIERCELY INDEPENDENT. She was challenging my modus operandi. She was kindly admonishing me. I knew this and I understood this. Yet, in some twisted corner of my mind, I construed her admonishment as a compliment. I have always prized independence. ‘If it is to be, it […]
Doubt your Doubts, Limit your Limits, and Scare the Crap out of your Fears! It doesn’t matter who you are, there is something that matters to you that you want to do; that you want to accomplish. Maybe it is big, maybe it is small. Maybe it is private and intimate. Maybe it is something […]
Magnificent, great, good, meh, okay, pretty bad, terrifying … ALL of these are part of the mixed bag of human experiences. None of them are you. None of them define you. None of them dictate to you what you should do, who you should be, and how you should show up to life. Each is […]
THE ENORMITY OF THE ROLE OF BOUNDARIES IN THE CONTEXT OF SELF-LOVE CANNOT BE UNDERSCORED ENOUGH. As a foundational cornerstone of feeling safe, healthy, and positively regarded in the world around you, boundaries are critical. They are at the core of creating and maintaining healthy relationships. In particular, Self-Love, the relationship with yourself, is almost […]
Anytime anyone asks me what either my purpose or my passion is, the singular experience that sets in for me is brain freeze. Except, it’s not short lived like when you gulp down a freezing cold slushie…this brain freeze morphs into brain fog and it has this unnerving habit of lingering inside of me for […]
I hung out on the lux side of life. But I lived on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks. It was the ‘wrong’ side for the obvious reasons. Life was tougher, and it was a whole lot rougher. All the same, I wanted for nothing and mostly, it was a good life. For me […]
Once upon a time, long, long ago in a beautiful, far, far away land, a certain Captain Cortés rolled up in a battalion of ships, dropped anchor and set upon said beautiful land with ambitions of conquest. His sailors were tired, hungry and weary from their expedition and Cortés knew that conquest was only possible […]
Bespoke adjective “a bespoke suit” “the bespoke tailors of Savile Row” Have you ever experienced the bliss of wearing a well-made suit made to order and made to fit? If you have, you will know that magical feeling of being draped in the design of your own imagination. It is way more than knowing it’s […]