The Efforting Trap
Yesterday at the end of a yoga class the instructor shared a sentence that made me pause. "We’ve got one body. We've got one life. Let's enjoy it."
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What your people need most: Hope and Clarity
As I guided our Inspiring Midlife Leadership cohort through another transformative session last week, I was struck by the profound wisdom emerging from these remarkable women.
I’m Done Performing for Patriarchy
I’m enjoying midlife and up until recently, I couldn’t really pinpoint why. I feel powerful, creative; my relationship with myself and my intuition has never been stronger. In a word, I feel free.
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I am noticing a theme in the incredible midlife women I am surrounded by these days. We are picking our heads up, scanning our lives and wondering ‘how did we get here’? The years have gone quickly, and there is so much more for me, I know there is. But how do I figure that out? And where to from here?
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Midlife is often portrayed in our culture as a time of decline, a season where growth slows, and possibilities narrow. I caught myself buying into this narrative as my 57th birthday approached in early January. I was feeling so much resistance to this age because I don’t want my growth to slow or opportunities to disappear.
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Your inner wisdom is calling! Will you answer?
For most of my life, I haven’t been very good at listening to my body. It’s not like I ignored it on purpose; it was more that I didn’t understand the language it was using. My body has been calling out, but I haven’t been willing to pick up. That wasn’t going so well for me.
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As I've written before in this space, on June 28, 2024, Brené Brown made an important announcement to the Dare to Lead™ facilitator community that she had sold the training rates for the program to the digital coaching company, BetterUp. (You can read my original piece on the subject here).
Since that time, there has been a great deal of hard
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I want to have conversations. Deep conversations. About the way midlife women are programmed by the world and how we navigate our mindset, our physical and emotional wellbeing, our purpose and how we show up as leaders.
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I am, at this moment, deep in the experience of navigating change. The kind of change that happens to you, not the kind you initiate.
Even though I’ve been changing things up for the past 13 years as an entrepreneur, I did all of that on purpose, eyes wide open. This time, it was unexpectedly thrown at me and that’s new territory.
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It was this spring when I first said those words.
I was working with a student in the executive coaching program at Royal Roads. He had just asked me, “How do you go back to the real world, into your life and everyday conversations now that you see what’s possible with a coach approach?”
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This was the hard truth I shared with a coaching client last week – “it’s not about you”. Of course, I presented it in a coach-like fashion of sharing an observation that she was putting a lot of pressure on herself to come up with the perfect plan for her team while making all of the decisions before September 1st.
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Today’s title is a simple meditative prompt taken from Richard Wagamese’s book Embers. It is the latest in a number of reminders for me to sit into and be okay with silence. By being silent we can take in the environment around us, pay attention to others, to ourselves, to our breathing.
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