I learned the climbers rest step early in my life, growing up at high altitude, the child of mountaineers. Step, breathe, step, breathe,...

I hit every red light on the way to work the other day. And I wasn’t exactly running early. But eventually, after about the fourth red...

I was commiserating with a student yesterday about how hard it is to find time to dedicate to the Alexander Technique practice of lying...

We’re deep into the season when we are supposed to be joyful. Whether we like it or not. And coming to the end of yet another year of...

Lately, after a year and a half of dormancy, opportunities have started coming my way—things that elicit, as my friend Melissa would say,...

1. What if judging myself (and the ensuing shame spiral) is just another habit that is not currently serving me? Could I approach my...

As we strive to change the world, is it selfish to work on ourselves? Or is it the only way?

I thanked the word NO, for giving me this much-needed solitude.

My ability to manage the HOW I do things is the difference between feeling steamrolled by my life and feeling like I can (just) manage it.

Saying NO to the million tiny habits of body and mind that contribute to feeling diminished, to feeling like I can’t go on.

We all wish for change to be a relatively fast, easy and painless process, but real change is slower and slipperier.

Imagine you are a candle. Your head floats up with ease like the flame. Your feet melt into the ground like wax.

What if the PAUSE is where the good stuff happens? The PAUSE is the place of inspiration, of creativity, of discovering the unexpected.

When I stop and really STAY in this moment, I realize the effort I was making to try to be in two places at once.

It's not just learning to stop tensing my shoulders. It's about eschewing a straightforward, well-defined parenting path to stumble down a

I am Inhibiting the habit of uselessly stressing myself out over everything else. Because there will be a season for those things too.

You know it’s a bad sign when you can’t remember how to turn off your computer. Evidence of the epic need for my newest undertaking: day OFF

On constant overload, it’s easy to see danger everywhere, and to begin to live smaller and smaller and smaller lives.

There is no room for gratitude or change if we never stop.