Befriending the Inner Child
One of my clients describes this experience she had in grammar school. Being the chubbiest and slowest of the other kids performing wind sprints in Mrs. Wahlberg's P.E. class, my client…
Life Coaching
Burnout
Several years ago, I completed burned out in my work. I had started to feel a dimming of interest in a work project I’d been involved in. I'd been co-running a yoga program in San Francisco…
Facing Negativity
Mary was 48 and had spent her whole life driven to make it big in the corporate world. She arrived at my office and said, "I am totally burnt out and am just going through the motions of my…
Burnout and the Mind-Body Connection
A client’s exhaustion and a memory of his father open a conversation about the pressure to prove himself.
Midlife
I was teaching a workshop a while back and realized I was the only one in the room with gray hair. I don't mind the gray. What caught me was quieter than that: I wasn't young anymore, and…
The Saturn Return: Ages 28 to 31
In astrology, a Saturn Return is when Saturn comes back to the position it occupied when you were born. The first is commonly associated with ages 28 to 31, the second with about 58 to 60,…