Have you ever gone on vacation where getting there wore you out so badly that you spent the first three days just coming down? That’s most of my trips. Some of you know this already, but my mom is Swiss, and every year I take her back to her village in the Alps. She’s eighty. […]

You’re in a meeting, working through something hard, and one person goes quiet. Eyes up at the ceiling. Or off out the window. And you think, well, I’ve lost her. So, you say her name. You ask what she thinks. You fill the silence, because silence in a meeting feels like something just went wrong. But […]

A few months ago, my coach told me to put Sally in the back seat. I laughed, then I tried it, and it worked. Here’s why stepping outside your own problem helps you finally see it clearly.

My 92-year-old Godmother never waited to feel ready. She just said, “Of course I can.” What she knew, and what decades of research confirm, is that confidence comes after you act, not before.

You build a raft to cross a river. It saves you. Then you get to the other side and keep carrying it. For me, that raft is achievement. It got me a doctorate, and it’s also the reason I’ll bulldoze somebody when I’m really in it. What’s yours?

Detaching every day, not once a year. Not just away from your desk. Out of it in your head. Sonnentag’s research shows daily mental disengagement predicts recovery better than time off does. It’s a discipline.

Strong people don’t carry everything. Wise people decide what to put down.

Burnout isn’t always a volume problem. Sometimes it’s a meaning problem.

The women who grow the fastest rarely do it alone. Real growth takes more than determination—it requires honest insight and a community willing to help you see what you can’t see on your own. Because no one wears a perfectly straight crown, and none of us are meant to straighten it alone.

Michelangelo said he didn’t create his sculptures. He believed the figure was already trapped inside the marble, and his only job was to chip away everything that wasn’t it. The statue was always there. He just revealed it.  Relationship psychologists borrowed that idea and gave it a name. The Michelangelo Effect describes what happens when the people closest to […]