My intimacy coach once asked me, “How will you know when you are loved?” And I responded with this example: Last year, I had a date over to my house and cooked us dinner. He watched as I struggled to get a Pyrex dish out of the oven with one…

Have you ever considered where superpowers come from? Superman’s strength and speed are innate. Wonder Woman and Black Panther have mystical connections with deities. And Tony Stark dons a suit. Can we reject this cultural concept of superpowers and redefine the story for ourselves? I’ve been told I have the…

Have you seen my glass slipper? A few months ago, I started a blog series around the question of patience. When is patience a virtue and when is it a hindrance to progress? Or in other words, when do we accept the status quo because it is comfortable, but in…

A Mayan shaman, Jose, was over at my house a few weekends back and gave me some of the best advice of my life. As I bemoaned not attracting the opportunities I want and detailed the internal blocks I hypothesized were causing this lack, Jose looked at me and compassionately…

As I was rescued from the chaos of a car accident last week, a poignant question touched my heart at its core — “So, what are you going to do with now?” What am I going to do after I escaped what could have easily been a situation with much…

A line I heard on Jordan Peterson’s podcast has haunted me for the past few weeks. “If there is something divine and immortal about human beings and it’s our ultimate ethical responsibility to let that shine into the world…than heaven help us when we don’t manage that.” That line, coupled…

When I was a little girl, one of my biggest fears was that I wouldn’t be able to get married because I couldn’t straighten my left fingers voluntarily. …

There’s nothing I value more than a bold question. A question that demands nothing less than vulnerability. I was recently speaking at a conference where an attendee asked me how I moved from feeling like a victim of my disability to understanding how it expanded me as a person. The…

One of my favorite movie lines is from Batman Begins where the character of Alfred rhetorically asks Bruce Wayne, “Why do we fall, sir?” And then answers himself with “so we can learn to pick ourselves up.” Last weekend, I caught a ferry to Santa Cruz Island, which is one…