Having a Catholic nun as one grandmother and a devout Catholic as another grandmother, I had a healthy dose of the Catholic experience growing up. I received a rosary from each grandmother every year for my birthday (need a rosary?), and went to church weekly. Every Sunday, dad would get us all piled into the

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You fight for certainty. You want to know. You run from the uncertainty. “Give me the answer!” you yell from the top of your lungs. The answer to why you feel unsettled. I know. I’ve been there.  For the last year and half, I’d felt this unsettled feeling. Not a lot, but when I’d come

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You feel it. This sense of knowing that you’re growing/evolving, but your partner is not. Or perhaps in a different direction. You feel it in your stomach, perhaps your heart. Perhaps it emerges as fear. Fear that all that you’ve built together may be lost. That you’re growing apart. You’ve mentioned it to them –

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You know when you have life planned to go a certain way or to be a certain way, and then it changes? “That wasn’t part of the plan!” you scream. But this time the plan doesn’t change because of something outside of you, but from something your intuition is telling you. That’s what happened for

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You open your mailbox and there they are… the bills. The credit card company (or company’s), the water, the rent. Your stomach goes into a knot. You open your email inbox and there is a statement from the energy company. Oh right, -20 degrees last month, gulp. Your stomach gets tighter. Someone asks you to

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For some of you, this seems totally normal to talk about. For others, it may seem in the “woo-woo” category. I hear people say, “Maybe it’s a sign that I received an email from you,” or “It’s a sign that they didn’t call me back, I wasn’t meant for the position anyway.” If I believed

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You’re asked to dinner and you say you’ll get back to them… but you don’t. You know you need a new washing machine, but you put it off. You have 2 great opportunities, but you choose neither because you don’t want to make the “wrong” decision. You know you need a vacation, but you don’t

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Today’s article is close to my heart because it’s the foundation of my business. It’s why I do what I do. Exactly one year ago today, I wrote a blog post on the top five regrets of the dying. I keep those regrets in the forefront of my mind because I want to learn from

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When I decided to go full time into my business, it wasn’t a quick decision, or an easy decision. For years I waffled between the work I knew that was reliable income, and what my heart was pulling me toward (coaching and mentoring). I would teach another avalanche course, instruct another NOLS course, guide for

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Each week I write a blog for my website (well, most weeks). I don’t have them planned out. I don’t know what I’ll be writing about next week or the week after. Ideas float thru my head like a Stone Fly floating downstream. They come and they go. But the ones that stick? The ideas

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