As I teach in the courage work, emotions get first crack at writing our stories when something hard happens. More than that, though, our bodies do too. Our bodies come in to save us through fight, flight, or freeze to
I don't want us to be fearless or shameless. Nor do I even think that is possible. I want us to feel our feelings.
More and more, I am hearing from managers, especially, how most of their time is spent supporting their people through mental health crises, family and health concerns, and dealing with levels of stress, burnout, too high of a workload, and
It is through this discomfort that we get through the dark together and write out our own future.
It isn't necessarily my goal to make you teary in my workshops. It may, however, be a side effect of finally giving yourself permission to live as your full self at home and at work and learning how to do
Vulnerability without boundaries is often oversharing to hotwire a connection, which isn't how trust is built. Vulnerability without boundaries can also be manipulative.
Palpable is my word this week, apparently. Except today, it was palpable joy and awe and courage and excitement at my morning keynote for Jewish Federation of St. Louis. Thank you so much, Marci Mayer Eisen MSW, ACC, for inviting me. This morning
When we name it, we can navigate it. Doing that together, in and through connection, is how we heal and move forward.
It never fails. The days I teach the 'are people doing their best?' lesson, the foundation of oozing grace that I live from is challenged.
The holy lives with the hard. Often the holy only is felt in and through the hard.
