How To Know When You Are Burnt Out

Burnout is a bone-tired, soul-tired, heart-tired kind of exhaustion. Burnout is real, and even though I teach schools, businesses, and organizations all across the country how to overcome it, I can tell you that I, too, have been experiencing it lately.  For me, it looks like this.  The inability to shut work off An incessant […]

Royal Self Care: Being Mental Health Aware

When I think about princesses, I think about Cinderella. She worked so hard to do what was expected of her, she went to the party everyone wanted her to attend, and she left when a Prince thought she should stay. I have found my sneakers are much better to run in than glass slippers, and […]

It’s okay to put yourself first

Recently, Oakwood Nursing Home (where my gram lives) had a door contest. Every resident decorated their door, and the nursing home staff thought it would be fun to turn it into a light-hearted competition.  They posted this picture of the winning door, and I noticed it was Gram’s door.  Mary Cayte Blocker, Director of the […]

If you feel burnout, you are not alone.

I know my purpose is to inspire you, but I also feel like it is important to be real and vulnerable, something we don’t feel like we are allowed to do much.  That’s why, as I propped my feet up on my desk just now and felt myself get emotional, I decided to stop while […]

It’s Okay to Not Feel Okay

Anyone else have random days where you just feel down? Where you just don’t feel like yourself?  You ask yourself a million questions: Who am I?  What am I supposed to be doing?  Should I do this or that? Why do I feel sad for no reason?  Is this the beginning of depression? You wonder […]

I love me ❤️. Do you love you? ❤️

People often develop an unhealthy and unhelpful obsession with other people’s opinions 😬 — especially, worrying way too much about what other people think of us. I know this has been a life-long challenge for me.  People have talked about me behind my back for years. “She’s too outspoken. She’s too confident. She’s too athletic. She launched her own […]

Who Am I?

As you know, I’m in Vermont, hiking the green mountains, taking in the sunshine and fall color, while working on my book for how women can show up bigger, bolder, and braver. As I was hiking Elmore mountain this week, I started having thoughts about WHO AM I? And this is what I came up […]

It’s Time to Stop “Playing it Safe.”

We need to follow our dreams and make them happen. I think most women vastly underestimate themselves. They say things like: “I have a dream, but don’t know how to make it happen.” “I don’t have what it takes to launch my side gig.” “It will never work.” “I’m not smart enough.” “My idea is […]

Where There’s a Dream, There’s a Way

I have a story to tell you and it’s about a stray beach dog that I met earlier this year in Cancun while my hubby and I were on vacation. I want to tell you this story because: It warms the heart (and we could all use a feel good story about right now). When […]

Learning the Law of Attraction

Learning the Law of Attraction and how to manifest my life is one of the best educations I’ve given myself. Every thought vibrates, every thought creates a signal, and every thought attracts a matching signal back. This is called the Law of Attraction. It states, “That which is like unto itself is drawn.” Think of […]