Wellness
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
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
How to be Yourself and Why it Matters
“Our sense of ourselves is
anchored in a vital connection
with our bodies.”
~~ Bessel van der Kolk
The Art of Seeing What’s Actually True
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve journeyed through CURIOSITY (the radical act of not knowing) and OPTIMISM (hope as a scientifically-backed practice). Today, we arrive at the heart of The C.O.A.C.H. Method: AWARENESS.
This isn’t the awareness that judges or analyzes. This is the authentic awareness that simply sees what is—without the stories, without the should-be’s, without the need to immediately change or fix anything.
This is the awareness that sets you free. continue reading
How to Cultivate Optimism
“The only journey is the one within.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Greetings to all my precious people!!
In 1997, fresh from a Stephen Covey workshop on personal mission statements, I created an acronym to guide how I wanted to show up in the world: C.O.A.C.H. Back then, it stood for Cultivating Optimism, Awareness, Creativity, and Hope—a personal compass for living with intention.
I had no idea that a simple acronym would evolve into something far more profound. continue reading
Curiosity: The Art of Sacred Wonder
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves…
~~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Greetings to all my precious people!!
Jupiter, the planet known as the “Great Benefic,” is widely regarded as a planet of expansion, abundance, and wisdom. When it returns to Cancer, the Water Sign, on June 9, and stays until June 2026, it reminds us of its “benefic” offerings: a path toward spiritual growth, enlightenment, and a supported quest for knowledge. The last time Jupiter graced Cancer was between June 2013—July 2014, so let us take a moment to reflect upon what happened during that time in our lives. There will be a nugget of inspiration, insight, and possibility waiting to be acknowledged. continue reading
