Winter is upon us, and as the plants and animals around us prepare to hibernate and deeply rest, we ramp up for a busy holiday season and new year. Despite our shared need for rejuvenation this season, we can ignore the wisdom of Winter and perpetually stay in a cycle of urgency.
In this month’s podcast episode, I explore our innate need for rest this time of year and how we can use it to flourish in our careers.
Read MoreWolves play an important part in their ecosystems. They ensure that ungulates like deer and caribou don’t decimate grass and other flora by overgrazing the same areas over and over again. The wolves’ presence keeps deer, coyote, and other populations in check so that all organisms in the ecosystem can thrive.
Read MoreAre you trying to find ways to make money that won’t make a negative impact on your recovery? Recovering from addiction can be a long, stressful process, so you definitely do not need the added stress of worrying about your finances. Still, expenses and bills need to be paid, so how can you make it all work? If you need to make ends meet while you are in recovery, you may want to read through these helpful tips.
Read MoreGetting fired, being laid off, not getting a promotion, feeling guilty for leaving our team…loss shows up in many ways throughout our career. It’s an inevitable part of being a professional, but it’s not something we talk about enough.
Read MoreIt’s been a while since I wrote a blog post. I didn’t mean to step away from writing this summer, but now I see that it was a natural and necessary break. On one hand, I was focused on getting monthly podcast episodes out, and on the other, I was undergoing so much change that it hardly felt like I could come up for air, much less put together a coherent post for you.
If I had to come up with a title for this summer, it would be “Brain Chemistry.” Through a series of personal events, astrological phenomena, and reaching the end of my rope with my own self-imposed limitations, I became focused on deeply upgrading my thought patterns and belief systems about what I can and cannot do.
Maybe one day I’ll tell you more about what has shifted for me this summer, but I’m still too close to it to offer anything very helpful.
For now, I want to share a practice that’s been like an anchor for me on days when I felt like I lost track of what I was meant to do in my worklife.
Read MoreThis post includes the latest episode of my podcast, A Wild New Work: Ecological guidance for your career. This month I'm sharing a bit about my experience of becoming a mother and what I see as the gifts that motherhood has to teach us about our careers.
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