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When I Finally Found the Words: Post-Traumatic Growth This summer in grad school, I learned a phrase that stopped me in my tracks: post-traumatic growth. Have you ever felt something deep inside but […]

Turning Stress into Connection The doors close. It’s just you and the VP who sent that cryptic “Can we talk?” email. Your brain scrambles through every possible scenario — fro […]

The Fantasy of Getting It All Together I’ve spent a lot of time trying to get my life “together.” Color-coded to-do lists. New planners. Digital systems. Productivity methods with cleve […]

Women’s Equality Day: Carrying the Torch of Courage On August 26, 1920, women in the United States woke up to a new reality. The 19th Amendment had been certified, and for the first time, women […]

My To-Do List Great, another thing I need to add to my to-do list. You’re about to leave work, and your coworker just told you that the presentation was m […]

You’re Not a Machine: Navigating Stress with Sanity in a Loud World Stress doesn’t always arrive with a warning label. Sometimes it’s obvious—a slammed laptop lid after a tense Zoom call, a missed deadline that […]

Let’s Get This Party Started! In July of 1993 I joined with a team of parents to chaperone a 5-day conference for our teens. Imagine 500 teens descending on a hotel for a week, […]

Do It Scared It started about a year and a half ago, when I was stretched to the very end of my rope in my job as a first grade teacher and made up my mind that […]

The Balancing Act Managing your Mental Load “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ~Lou Holtz Many days you come home, exhaust […]

Balancing the Mental Load: A Working Woman’s Reality and Response I’m a mom, a wife, a nonprofit CEO, and a graduate student. My calendar is full—overflowing, honestly. That means I’m also the keeper of the f […]

My Body Knows All Last summer, I threw my back out. Like “out-out,” as in could not sit or stand or move in any direction without feeling pain. It was not a del […]

The Invisible Weight: Why Women Often Carry the Mental Load at Home and at Work A few years ago, my friend Sarah told me about a moment that stopped her in her tracks. She and her husband were hosting a family dinner. The […]

The Glass Marbles I Refused to Drop I used to think being successful—at work, at home, as a partner, friend, and professional—meant giving 100% everywhere. All the time. I now rea […]

Understanding and Overcoming Without question we are in a period of economic transition. New words and concepts are becoming increasingly common place in our […]

Stop? Slow? Feels more like GO! There are a lot of reasons for our clients – and ourselves for that matter – to throw on the brakes right now. A LOT of reasons. It feels lik […]

The Juggle Is Real: Managing Priorities Without Burning Out If you’ve ever tried to answer emails with one hand while reheating last night’s leftovers with the other—and simultaneously fielding a quest […]

Work Smart, Rest Smarter Juggling Priorities Without Burnout “Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things” ~Byron Dorgan I don’t know if I spe […]

Why I’m Letting Go of the Guilt (and You Can Too) Guilt Next week is a big one for our family. My youngest son is heading off to a half-day STEM camp—something he’s been talking about with exc […]