Hey Reader, Something goes wrong, and before you've even had a second to think, you already know whose fault it is. Yours. The apology is halfway out of your mouth before you've checked whether you actually did anything at all. I want to name that, because most of us don't even see it happening. We just call it being responsible, being the woman who owns her part. But there's a difference between honest accountability and quietly assuming that every hard thing traces back to something you did...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader I am offering a class that I know is desperately needed. It's called The Anti-Hero. This class is for the woman who cheated. The one who did the cheating. And the shame and guilt is something she has been trying to deal with ever since. This class isn't about accountability. You tried that. It doesn't work. It isn't about forgiveness either, because you tried that too. If it was as simple as forgiving yourself, this wouldn't still be keeping you from feeling free of it. And if the...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, You keep telling yourself that once you catch up, you'll finally get to rest. Once the list is done and things calm down a little, then you'll slow down. So you push a little harder, you stay a little later, and you promise yourself it's only temporary. But the catching-up never actually comes. That's the part nobody tells you. Working harder doesn't move you closer to caught up. It just keeps quietly moving the finish line further away, and it keeps you feeling behind no matter...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, If punishing yourself worked, you'd have healed by now. That's a line I said in a class recently, and I can't stop coming back to it. Most of us have been taught that when we're not getting what we want in life, the fix is to punish ourselves. We just don't call it that. We call it "holding myself accountable," or "making sure I don't make the same mistake twice," or needing a system and a list and someone to keep us on track. It hides in all these reasonable-sounding places, and...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Last week I was coaching a client and she told me about taking her nephew to do that indoor skydiving thing. He kept standing up and sitting down. Standing up, sitting down. He could not make himself do it. So she pushed him. And then she felt guilty, because he hated it. But here is the thing. Nothing went wrong. He tried it, he knows it isn't for him, and he never has to wonder about it again. Here is what I told her, and it's what I need you to know too. Sometimes we need a...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, The guy who cut you off in traffic isn't an idiot. He's a person having a day you know nothing about. I know. Some days that's very hard to believe. But notice what your brain does the second someone frustrates you. It reaches for a label. Idiot. Selfish. Rude. It's fast, it feels true, and it saves you from actually having to understand them. The label is cheap. And it costs you more than you think. This week on the How To Love Yourself No Matter What podcast, we start with a...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, There's a trap I watch women live in for years. "I'll be happy when." When the house is calm. When the hard thing is over. When I finally have it together. I'll say this gently. That day isn't coming. Not the way you're picturing it. The messy and the hard don't come in a separate box from the beautiful and the good. Same box. Same life. It's 50/50. And that's not proof you're failing. That's just how it works. So we stop waiting for the mess to clear. We lean in. And then we do...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, New episode is up. This one matters. I think you need to hear it. You've been told the problem is that you don't love yourself enough. Love yourself more. Try harder. Think positive. And it hasn't worked. Here's what I want you to hear. It was never a self-love problem. It's shame. Shame is quieter. It hides underneath. It runs the show when you're not looking. So in this episode we name it. We look at it. We start to loosen its grip. That's where the work begins. yes? Listen to...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Two things happened with clients this week that I can't stop thinking about. I want to share them with you. I think they hold something important. The first. A client got some really distressing news today and asked to reschedule our call. Which, of course, is completely okay. But I offered her something else too. I said: this might be exactly the thing that's worth bringing to a call. Not because you need to have it figured out. Because processing it out loud, with someone, is...
3 months ago • 2 min read