My passion is seeing people inspired and equipped to live fully alive, pursuing their gifts, interests, abilities, and unseen potential. Here I share my thoughts on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing and wellness, including my personal journey from personal powerlessness to reconnecting to love, joy, and peace.
You can also check in here for updates on my books, Keeping Fitness Simple and Rise, and Rise Again.
Today was another crazy experiment in self-love through the laboratory of pickleball. I deal with Complex PTSD, which usually means that in stressful situations, or where there’s high expectations and high emotions, I can easily go into freeze mode and play way below my level. It happens to me even in recreational play. When this … Continue reading Self-Love plus a Gold Medal
Even though I dreamed of being married since I was little, at this point I can’t think about belonging to someone else when I’m still working on belonging to myself.I didn’t belong to myself for the first decades of my life, and didn’t even realize the powerlessness I was living in for many more years. … Continue reading Still Working on Belonging to Myself
This was such a daring declaration at the time, for subjects to hold their King accountable for the misuse of his authority. But as they dared to believe that peasants were as endowed with inalienable rights as kings, they didn’t yet have the bandwidth to extend those rights to men of color, or to women. … Continue reading Independence Day
Healing is not a linear journey. Weight or body composition is just one aspect of health which for many of us is a varied reality. After being underweight for my early life, it took a lot of time and consistency to build up muscle. I felt shame for having been so small, and so my … Continue reading Healing is Neither Linear nor Static
Rise, and Rise Again 