Reflection

“Who wants to be the leader?”  I smile as I scroll through the Zoom participants on my screen, wondering whom the instructor will select, yet intuitively knowing he will call my name.  “Karen, what about you?”  The invisible “I’ll go first” sign is something I’ve always carried–in life and in...

Connection We are simultaneously hardwired and starved for it. A recent study cited that over 50% of adults and nearly 80% of young adults admit to feeling lonely. Marginalized communities are even harder hit. (Learn more here.)  Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, calls it a loneliness epidemic. ...

Life has been quite full this past week…and may have even overflowed a little. I’ve been sick with what I thought was a common cold. Turned out in the end to be round three of COVID… I had a less-than-appetizing post-nasal drip that I just couldn’t shake.   After falling asleep...

Life at home during most of my youth was spent walking on eggshells. My mother and stepfather were what I call functional alcoholics. Work during the day, get drunk every night. Whenever my stepfather came home from work, my mood radar would turn into high gear. Was it a good...

I am not practical…and I’m starting to make peace with that. In my last session with Margaux, or as I affectionately call her, The Coach Lady, we started diving into which roles I feel most energized in and which roles drain me the most. It turns out that being methodical...