This week, my invitation to you is to open up the door to your complex, deep soul a little bit more. Show your whole self to a few more people

Thankful for the joy and freedom I’ve experienced this year. Thankful to discover ever deeper spaces of strength and contentment, of acceptance for what is and for what is possible.

Morning meditation from Ocean Beach to you.

It’s an interesting thing that we’re grateful for other people’s creations. I believe that we’re all her to liberate ourselves and embrace our gifts and bring them out into the world. I’m doing so, we fulfill our purpose(s) and we’re ecstatic and content and the world is grateful for our efforts. She said - think if the Beatles gave up because their egos got in the way, or because it seemed like they were too young and too inexperienced? Or Taylor Swift? Or Lizzo? What a loss would it have been if we didn’t hear their music.

In coaching, we look at this fear; we look at our inner critic that this fear creates; we invite self compassion to the table; we practice empathy for others who might have our best interest in mind yet acknowledge that only *we* know in our gut what’s good for us; we practice building trust in ourself and the goodness of human kind despite what we see in media; we build a vision that represents our hearts’ desire; we practice healthy habits, to be our most powerful self.

I bet on these two tools and they haven’t yet let me down. They both guide me to keep my eye on the prize. They approve of my wild ideas, and cheer me on. They are born from the bigger power of Optimism, something we can absolutely grow on a Petri dish at home.

Five years ago, the thing that finally got me to resign, was actually the desire to be a ROLE MODEL OF SOMEONE INTERESTING AND COURAGEOUS for my kids. So the last piece to uncover is: WHY do you want to make a big change? What’s your motivation? The way you answer makes ALL the difference 💕

The calling for beauty is always there, the nudge towards the next great thing we can do or be is always present, 100% unabashed. The practice is turning our attention inward to feel it and opening our senses outward to conjure it.

I experience the powerful truth that only when we take care of ourselves, when we take seriously our talents and dreams, we are most ready and able to create what we’re here to create, and to help empower others in the process.

Finishing today this incredible book that uncovers a framework for understanding energy and its power. From the iPEC Coaching training and this book learned to identify the 7 energy levels in myself and others, to tap into the tremendous, mostly hidden, creative potential in each of us.

Sending love to the moms of Parkland high school students who passed a year ago, one of the many school shooting tragedies. Sending love to the surviving students the same age as my own big baby, will never be the same. Listening to them be interviewed by #thedailypodcast a year later is to sad and so empowering at the same time.

A happiness building practice I adopted a few years ago: commit to writing and reading for myself, once a week at a cafe. I’ve spent so much quality time at this cafe, wrote and read here hundreds of pages. Today I’m devouring this incredible book, rooted in thorough research on high performance. One day my happiness book will be finished and I’ll find myself doing the last edits here!