When my friend and mentor Margaret Nichols announced that she would be leading a 2-day immersion workshop called Divine Femme, I was in. I didn’t ask for a table of contents of what she planned to teach. I didn’t ask what we would do. I didn’t ask what time it would start or end. I […]
The Secret Drug of Successful High-Achievers
My head is spinning with an influx of ideas. I am flooded with insights and inspiration. I feel a new measure of clarity and purpose. The Resistance is crumbling. I am in love with the world. I am ready to unleash my gifts. Everything is locking into place. The world is one big sphere of […]
A ThinkUp Insight Like No Other
When I get into a busy season with my work, I often shut down everything else around me to focus more intensely on what I need to do. One of the first things to be sacrificed on those busy days are the various update emails that I receive. This pattern tends to emerge especially when […]
Two Types of Fears
I have been thinking lately about fear. Specifically, I’ve been noticing the conversations we have in our culture about fears. Many people offer advice on how to “manage” fears. In reflecting on this advice, I found it helpful to draw a distinction between two different types of fears. Two Types of Fears Original Fear Original […]
Why We Must Embrace Fear
It’s the modern-day F-bomb: FEAR. We tend to speak about fear like it’s a virus that needs to be eradicated from the planet. We deem it acceptable for discussion only if we are talking about how to eliminate it. Otherwise, we are supposed to pretend it doesn’t exist. I’ve noticed that our culture tends to […]
Who You Are vs Who You Think You Need to Be
Many of us spend our lives trying to bridge the gap between who we are and who we want to be. Or, more accurately, who we think we want to be. We never stop to question whether what we are striving for is what we actually want, or if it is just who we think […]