Morality is a flawed metric

This week I want to address what I think are two common and related thought errors that often block us from taking action. This is the idea that we need to make the most moral or ethical choice, that before we can proceed we need to know that we have made the best...

Why I think we need coaching more than ever

Coaching focuses on deepening our relationships with ourselves and with other people, on figuring out the path from where we are right now to where we want to be and bringing our actions into alignment with our values. We are living in a time of collapse. Recent human...

What I learned from ten days of rest

this post is dedicated to my dog marcel, the best rester and teacher of rest that I know. I started January by taking up Jen Lemen’s invitation to “rest and nest” for ten days. I found it much more of a challenge than I thought was possible, and I realised just how...

Reckoning with the reality of white rage

How we frame things matters.  The words we choose matter. Especially if we claim to want a more just and liberated world. We can choose language that interrogates the status quo, or we can choose language that supports it. I’m seeing a lot of people doing the...