Why Your No Makes You More Reliable (Plus 4 Scripts)
When practicing or performing improv, there’s a rule that you must “YES, AND” your teammates. This guiding principle is powerful because it builds a deep sense of trust and creates…
How To Get From Pirate to Ninja Status
A client started a session with, I know I’m a lot. She’s been told so many times. She didn’t say it with shame. This woman has built successful careers in…
Soulful Sunday: Wilderness Belonging
“Belong so fully to yourself that you’re willing to stand alone is a wilderness– an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching.” – Brené Brown Last year, I found myself…
Before You Add To Your Cup, Empty Out
I did too much again. You know that invisible line of what you can and cannot handle? The one that sometimes changes depending on when you get your period or…
When You Can’t See Around the Bend, Get Open
What do you want? I looked at my teacher with tears in my eyes and frustration. I had just told her about my breakup and I wasn’t ready to talk…
How to Trust Your Body and Set Goals That Matter
At the end of 2016, I spent a week planning out 2017. I planned for the number of clients I could more feasibly work with, the events I wanted to…
Soulful Sunday: Love Vulnerability
“The ideal situation for understanding another is not so much how a person reacts to extreme stress, but rather how he or she suffers the vulnerability of falling in love.”…
Soulful Sunday: Scrambled Sacred
“Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.” – Anodea Judith Let this serve as an important reminder that sometimes our fear arises as we walk our path. As…
Stop Paying Your Dues and Honor Your Yearning
When you start a new job, go for a promotion, make a big ask, or undertake a new project, there are a lot of assumptions about what that journey has…
Seven Ways to Tune Into Your Body’s Messages
During a discovery call with a client, she confessed, “Jess, I can’t always feel what’s happening in my body. I realize that I don’t notice it a lot.” This is…
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