Michele Gooch

Navigating Overwhelm: A Journey to Empowerment I remember the first time I stepped into a leadership role. The weight of responsibility, the countless decisions, and the ever-growing to-do list […]

Be the Change: A Guide for Ambitious Women In 1913 Mahatma Gandhi authored a passage for an Indian journal from which we get the famous quote, “Be the change you want to see in the w […]

Encouragement is Priceless Encouragement is priceless. We all love an unexpected tender thank you note or a surprise bouquet of flowers. But when a friend takes the time to […]

Embrace the Truth Break Free from Self-Justification I lied. I was pulling through the pick up window. The very window I’d already told myself not to access t […]

I was Born Serious — Don’t make Me Play I was born serious. My mother says I came out of the womb telling the doctor what to do. I love to read, research, and study while others play, […]

I Should be Dead A few years ago I took a life change index. Basically, I measured my stress level by looking at major events happening in my life over the past 12 […]

Human Being, Not Doing When we knock out the to-do list, wrangle an emotional preschooler, comfort the grocery store cashier who’s having a bad day, and complete the b […]

Let Go of Who You’re Supposed to Be Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are is the subtitle of Brene Brown’s book The Gift of Imperfection. What a mout […]

Life on Accident Alarm goes off, hit snooze. Notification dings, pick up phone. Walk in the door, pick up remote. Annoying colleague speaks, knee-jerk reaction. […]

I find myself not belonging in all the familiar places. I’ve stretched beyond the boundaries of expectations- my family of origins, my traditional beliefs, my culture’s. Beyond is an awkward place to be. […]

My fist was in the air, my voice ricocheting off the walls, my point had been made. Success! All my fellow nine-year olds in the school hallway fell silent. Santa is real! Discussion over. 

After school I […]

Challenging Gratitude Practices for Your Enneagram Type Most of us go through life on autopilot doing some of the same things over and over that hurt us and others. It’s confusing, and yet, we tend to s […]

We all want to be authentic, and yet, we compare ourselves to some nebulous standard — the social media norm, the cultural expectation, the family code. When we fear we can’t think and act as we truly are, we put […]

Goals don’t determine our success, habits do. This shocks me. All the experts, gurus, specialist, masters tell us to set goals. We’re even told goals written down have a better chance of being achieved. But the […]

Strengths are things we do with ease which means they don’t feel like strengths to us. We don’t recognize our strengths because we don’t see them as big deals. We assume if we can do it, everyone can do it.  […]

Geckos scamper across my porch every day. They are champions at adapting. On the tree trunk they’re tan, on the bush green. Rapidly they adapt to their environment. Even when they lose their tail due to a quick e […]

How do you respond to stimulus? Is your brain most capable, most flipped on in quiet? Or is your brain at it’s best when there is noise, people, movement? Our schools and workplaces are designed to provide large d […]

He was small, tubular, green and seemed to eat an entire bush worth of leaves in one day. Every child in the second grade class was fascinated with how quickly this worm doubled in size. The daily buzz around the […]

When she looked in the mirror, she saw herself as an obedient daughter and a doormat wife with no real future. Born in 1917 to a multi-millionaire financier (think Downton Abby, American style), Katharine was […]

After two years of stress, strain, death, illness, financial setbacks, divisiveness, distain brought on by a global pandemic, the entire planet is at a loss. We are in this shared space of confusion and […]