Health
Resilience: Kindness as Adaptive Mastery
“I can be changed by what happens to me.
But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
~~ Maya Angelou
Greetings to all my precious people!!
Last week, we shattered myths about midlife limitations and embraced the science-backed truth that your greatest possibilities may still be ahead of you. This week, we explore the foundation that makes pursuing those possibilities sustainable: RESILIENCE.
But not the “grit your teeth and tough it out” version of resilience our culture promotes. Not the toxic self-reliance that insists you should handle everything alone. We’re diving into revolutionary research that reveals the strongest form of resilience comes not from individual toughness, but from kindness practice and community connection.
This changes everything we thought we knew about strength, adaptation, and surviving life’s inevitable challenges. continue reading
JOY: Cultivating Sustainable Aliveness
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.”
~~ Marianne Williamson
Beyond Happiness: Cultivating Sustainable Aliveness
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve journeyed through kindness as embodied healing, awakened to kindfulness as warm-hearted presence, discovered how gratitude becomes grace, and explored how your healing naturally wants to serve others through authentic contribution. This week, we dive into something that might surprise you: JOY.
Not the forced positivity that asks you to pretend everything is wonderful. Not the fleeting happiness that depends on external circumstances. But the deep, sustainable aliveness that emerges when you live in authentic alignment with your kindness practice and your contribution to the world.
This is joy as medicine. Joy as fuel. Joy as the natural result of a life lived in service to what matters most. continue reading
CONTRIBUTION: Your Healing is a Gift to the World
“The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.”
~~ Pablo Picasso
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve journeyed together through kindness as embodied healing, awakened to kindfulness as warm-hearted presence, and discovered how gratitude alchemizes into grace. This week, we explore the profound truth that many of you have been feeling: your healing journey was never just about you.
Every moment you chose curiosity over judgment, optimism over cynicism, awareness over denial, courage over comfort—you weren’t just healing yourself. You were preparing to become medicine for the world.
This is the week we explore CONTRIBUTION—not as depletion or obligation, but as the natural flowering of a life lived with authentic intention. continue reading
GRACE & GRATITUDE: The Sacred Alchemy
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
~~ Melody Beattie
When Appreciation Becomes Embodied Elegance
Last week, we explored how kindfulness awakens capacities in your midlife brain that traditional mindfulness cannot—moving you from detached observer to loving participant in your own life. This week, we’re diving into the sacred alchemy that happens when gratitude and grace dance together in your kindness practice.
But let me start with a confession: I used to roll my eyes at gratitude practices.
Write three things you’re grateful for each day? Keep a gratitude journal? It felt like spiritual bypassing—a way to avoid dealing with the real difficulties of life by painting them with forced positivity.
Then I discovered the neuroscience. And everything changed. continue reading
Kindness is Good Medicine
“Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
~~ Albert Schweitzer
KINDNESS: The Science of Living Your Healing Out Loud
Greetings to all my precious people!!
As we complete our journey through the C.O.A.C.H. Method—from Curiosity through Hope & Healing—many of you have asked: “What’s next? How do I live this transformation in the world?”
The answer has been whispering itself to me for weeks, and this morning it became clear: KINDNESS.
Not the passive, people-pleasing version we’ve been taught. Not the “be nice” conditioning that asks us to diminish ourselves. But kindness as a radical act of embodied healing—the living expression of everything you’ve discovered about yourself through curiosity, optimism, awareness, courage, hope, and healing.
This is kindness as medicine. Kindness as revolution. Kindness as the bridge between your inner transformation and the healing our world desperately needs. continue reading
