Your Authentic Life: Nothing to Apologize For
In January 2018, I had the pleasure of speaking with Donna Carol Voss, in her own words, "a Berkeley grad, a former pagan, a Mormon on purpose, and an original thinker on twenty-first-century living." She hosts "Nothing to Apologize For," a show where she makes no...
Your Authentic Life: Meeting My Parents — Again
At the MCC library in Akron, PA This week I met my parents — for the third time. Like most of you, I met them for the first time as a child, and then as we grew older together. I came to know them for the second time in the years...
Your Authentic Life: What do I Want When I Share My Joy?
My brand new publisher! This week I received a signed contract for my memoir Love is Complicated: A Memoir of Healing from Mango Publishing, the fastest growing independent publisher in the United States. It’s taken years of hard work to...
You Authentic Life: 3 Key Characteristics of True Friendship
I’m staring at the photo: Four women, all of us in my kitchen preparing extraordinary delicacies. It was going to be a great meal. We had taken a cooking class together the prior week, walked away with great recipes,...
Your Authentic Life: Am I Inconsequential as a Grandparent?
How often have I heard, “My grandmother was my hero. The impact that she had on my life will stay with me forever.” And when I Google “grandparent influence on grandchildren,” I am shocked by the huge number of adults claiming that their grandparents deeply influenced...
Mindful Self-Care: How I Stay Sane when Life Spirals Out of Control
Dr. Paul Lam, Tai Chi for Health Institute I don’t need to give you all the details of my wonderful, overly full life for you to understand that sometimes it feels like I’m spinning...
Your Authentic Self: It’s Delusional to Think I Can Let Go of My Old Stories
I have my old stories. You have yours. We all have them. It’s how we learned to make sense of the world around us, and sometimes still do. These old stories about what’s happened to me in the past often continue to rule how I...
Your Authentic Life: My Partner and I Disagree — But What’s It Really About?
In a healthy relationship, your partner is that special someone who meshes with you so well that you coexist in perfect harmony. You never have any disagreements, right? Wrong. Research actually suggests that the process of...
Your Authentic Self: It’s Why — Not Whether — We Make Sacrifices In Our Love Relationships
The photo is of Ed and me nearly 20 years ago. Drama or action movie? Chinese or Italian food? Spending or saving the latest paycheck? Sacrifice in a partnership means that I freely choose to give up something I want...
Your Authentic Life: Why We Never Truly Know Our Partner
A few months ago, Ed and I sat on the back patio of our winter home in Tucson, Arizona, watching the changing tones of red and purple of the setting sun against Sabino Canyon, and reflecting on our life in the desert. “One of the...