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Why Your Routines Aren’t Working (and How to Fix Them)

You’ve ordered the planner, set your goals, made the checklist, and decided you are finally ready to “stay consistent” with…

The Pace of Calm Leadership: Leading When the World Feels Fast

Culture and society tell us that leaders should always be loud, upbeat, make decisions quickly, always have the answers. But…

Nervous System Resets for a Rooted & Calm Life

You know those days when you wake up with your heart already racing because of all that’s already on your…

The Enneagram and Working Genius: Connecting the Dots

What if the Enneagram and understanding your Working Genius together could bring greater self-awareness and clarity so you could live…

Enneagram Insights for Stressed Leaders

How Self-Awareness Creates Calm You walk into work and sit down at your desk. You open your email and can’t…

Self-Leadership for the Quietly Powerful: How Introverts and HSPs Can Thrive Without Burning Out

Does this sound familiar? You skip lunch and never get to your tasks because your day is full of meetings…

Are You an Introvert or Highly Sensitive or Both?

Are you ever accused of being “too sensitive?” As a child were you told “you’re just too sensitive!”? Maybe you…

Self-Awareness Tools That Work: How the Enneagram & Working Genius Lower Stress and Clarify Our Strengths

When it comes to self-awareness, no single tool gives us the full picture — but when we bring the right…

The Secret Power of Simple Routines

I tend to think of good habits and routines more as rhythms and practices. They help ground us when life…

Tiny Triggers Quietly Draining Your Energy

Our days can be filled with small events and interactions that seem insignificant. When we think about how they add…

What’s the Cost of Hiding Your Strengths?

Do you ever catch yourself playing small? I am going through a group coaching program right now with my coach.…

How Do You Find Your Purpose?

I’ve thought a lot about purpose over the past decade. I guess when you hit your late 30s & 40s…

No is a Complete Sentence

No is a complete sentence.⁠⁠To learn more about why you may have a hard time saying no, click here to…

Do You Have a Practice of Rest?

Do you struggle to just stop and rest? I don’t mean resting at bedtime each night. Intentionally slowing down and…

You Don’t Have to Earn Rest

Maybe you need the reminder this week: You do not have to earn rest. You do not have to earn…

Healthy Habits for Reaching Your Highest Potential

After I had been studying the Enneagram, mindset & personal growth several years ago I began to realize the powerful…

Simple Mindfulness & Breathing Practices to Use During Your Day

Awareness of how I was living from the core fear and other core motivations of my Enneagram type was the…

The Language We Use with Ourselves Matters

The words we use matter. It matters when we are speaking with another person, but the language we use with…

Seeing the Different Perspectives of Others

Learning to see experiences and situations from the perspective of others is essential to living with peace and purpose. Whether…

Pause. Breathe. Look Up. Find the Beauty.

I first heard this phrase from a fellow Enneagram coach who recommended reading K.J. Ramsey’s book The Lord is My…

The Nuances in Our Language Can Effect Our Mindset

As I’ve worked with my coach over the past year I have tried to mindfully start making small shifts in…

The Robin in the Rain

As I’m building my coaching business I’m still working another job. My manager recently took another job. I fully support…

My Top Books for Learning How to Cultivate Peace & Calm in Your Life

I grew up hearing and reading the scriptures that said “do not fear” and “cast all your cares” and “…

Just Simply Be

Do we know how to just be? My contemplative book club just finished Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and in…

The Slow Work

It’s late afternoon/early evening. I’m never sure what time of day this is during the late spring/summer when it’s 6…

What is Your Core Fear?

God has really been teaching me about fear and the impact living in fear can have on our lives physically,…

What If We Flipped the Script?

“God’s position on humanity hasn’t changed. But humanity’s position on themselves has.” – Marty Soloman This is a quote from…

The Spiritual Practice of Sourdough Bread Making

Over the past year I’ve come to see everything as spiritual even if I do not perhaps see it in…

The Spiritual Practice of Flowers

There is something holy about being in the garden just after sunrise tending to and cutting flowers before most of…
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