Category Archives: Life Coaching

is a word that does not land well for me. By which I mean I don’t like how the word lives in the world. Or how I see it playing out in the slogans of self-help motivational speakers standing on stages with microphones clipped to their freshly ironed J. Crew shirts, screaming you are resilient!Continue reading “Resilience”

I wandered into a paper shop a few days ago. Actually it was more like a gallery of paper art. Actually, it was a little gem of sanity. And everything was black or white. I asked the saleswoman if this was her art. Because it was art. And she said no, putting her hand toContinue reading “All the Myriads”

It’s hard to fight the impulse that something is wrong—with the day, a situation, me. Life. And that better is just around the bend. And, while I’m all about goals and lists and discipline, I am coming to an understanding of just how toxic this can be—this conditional acceptance of things. Because it sort ofContinue reading “The Heart Asks Pleasure First”

I was speaking with a fellow-writer friend yesterday about motherhood, coming to an acceptance of our non-perfection, and reflecting on what we good we had done, which—if we were honest with ourselves—had little to do with material success and had mostly to do with the quality of their relationships. And how did we assess theContinue reading “Generosity”

There are moments, sometimes they are glimpses, when we have a sense of our best self. Future self. Our rise above the situation self. Those moments when we are able to step back and disconnect from the small “s” self and see the bigger picture. Those moments are the closest I get to any understandingContinue reading “Afterlife”

  Things often come in threes. Or maybe I’m just slow on the uptake.  Or maybe some of these are lifetime lessons and we learn and go deeper and learn and go deeper. I think it’s that last one. And, so I revisit the issue of boundaries. Which is not unrelated to my previous postContinue reading “NO”

Abraham Maslow, whom most of us know from his Hierarchy of Needs, believed that we have two basic drives in life—a drive to feel safe and a drive to grow, and we can only foster that drive to grow if we have a baseline of safety. Physical and emotional safety. And, if we do notContinue reading “Love Hunger”

Every year at Yom Kippur (for a while now…maybe ten years?) I write a letter to my children—three children three letters. And it’s usually a variation on the similar theme of please forgive me for anything I have done knowingly or unknowingly to cause harm. I didn’t want to be one of those harm-causing obliviousContinue reading “Beginning Space”

This past weekend, I did a three-hour Yin/Yang yoga class with the amazing Daniela. On her rooftop, surrounded by plants and herbs, with a view of other Tel Aviv rooftops. Ok, so to clarify, it wasn’t a three-hour class per se; it was two classes—one and a half hours of Yang Yoga—an active practice thatContinue reading “Nothing is Strange…”

I’ll admit it; I have a slight obsession with Sandra Cisneros. It started about four years ago, when I went to visit my eldest daughter, who was then a Sophomore in college. And one thing we did on that visit, which ended up becoming a bit of a ritual, was have brunch at Zoe’s Cafe,Continue reading “Invitation”