Learning from Adversity
Early in his career, Abraham Lincoln was hired onto a celebrated patent case. He threw himself into the work, prepared a long brief, and traveled hundreds of miles to Cincinnati for the…
Writing
The Thread
There's a common formula for finding your purpose: look for the spot where what you care about, what you're good at, and what the world needs all overlap.
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.
Emotional Strength
We build a guard around the heart. Most of us do it early, to keep pain out, and we keep it up long after the danger that built it is gone. We get good at not feeling. There's always…
Keeping Company with Yourself
Compassion means to suffer with. When a small child breaks an arm, you don't decide to feel for them. You hold their hand, you say something steadying, and it takes a little off the edge of…
My Favorite Books: A Collection of Spiritual Classics and Modern Wisdom
These are books I return to and recommend, with a personal account of what reading has meant in my life. Go to the reading list .
Why is Emotional Intelligence Worth Developing?
The old 1950s paradigm that a leader must ignore or suppress her/his emotional urges has been thoroughly discredited over the last 20 years of research. Instead, research shows, time and…
The Practice of Self-Acceptance
Below, is an email exchange I had with a 40-something Ashtangi who read a blog I wrote a few years ago , reached out to me this morning to share what a struggle it it has been to accept…
Fasting from the News
Over the last year, I've made it a point not to turn on the news. I started noticing that I became sleepless with anxiety from the content coming in about ISIS. I realize that for many,…
The Space Between Stimulus & Response
The psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl wrote about the freedom to choose how we respond to what happens to us. A familiar quotation often associated with his work expresses…
To Everything There is a Season
Five Elements Series: Creating Transformational Breakthroughs
There is a pattern for the process of transformation. There's actually a movement to transformation, and it has one of two directions. One direction is downward. Another goes up. The up…