A frigid morning revealed the intricate patterns of ice crystals upon the ground. Fractals are patterns that perpetuate ourselves… as can be behaviors, desires, thoughts and other patterns that govern our daily lives.

Frozen Fractals: How Patterns Teach Us About Ourselves

January 04, 2023 in Heal!, My Writing Journey, Soul-Based Coaching, Write

I can see my breath as clouds in an unnamed place on the Applegate Emigrant Trail, somewhere between the Nevada Ghost town Vya and distant Denio. These are the spaces that I have come to love— not only because they are vast and mysterious in their silent histories, or loud with spaces in the histories they omit, but because they ask silent questions of us when we are fully present within them.

Certification: Complete!

July 17, 2021 in My Writing Journey, Write, Write-embody-heal, Heal!, Embody

A bit over a year ago today I started a journey down a path I never really envisioned myself walking. For over a decade, I’ve been a professional writer, a co-author, a product reviewer, a technical writer, a blogger, a literary essayist and an elite endurance athlete. Never-ever in that map of my own identity did I—or could I— see myself as an entrepreneur, a business owner and/or a coach, but somehow, that’s where I’ve arrived.

Write, Embody, Heal: Thoughts on Community

May 31, 2020 in California Coast Classic, Heal!, Embody, Write

I am participating in a monthly creative/therapeutic and regenerative For Women Unfolding: The Write, Embody, Heal! workshop group led by my creative colleague and friend Kelsay Myers. I appreciate the group not only for its ability to remind me to slow down, to breathe, and to embody (myself in) the moment, but it also inspires me to have creative-play when it comes to my writing, something that hasn’t happened for years.

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