Charlie and I often get questions about the “whys” of what we do, both on the personal and the business side and how we blend them to take care of ourselves and […]
A Simple Exercise for Burnout Recovery
Last summer Charlie and I led a webinar to help leaders identify and scale back burnout on their teams. The experience, and gathering so much fresh input, was enlightening to those involved […]
What Traumatic Brain Injury Has Taught Me about Self-Compassion
We know statistically people forget more than they think they do. Our bias is to believe that we’re mostly on target, correct, or in the right, when it comes to our memory. […]
Become a Stronger Leader by Embracing Your Contradictions
A few years ago, I commissioned a painting from a member of our community, Cristina Kramp. In the painting, a woman is basking in the light of the sun, her face tipped back […]
Are You Honoring Your Seasonal Energy?
Nature’s seasons hold many lessons, which stand out most clearly in the darkest time of year. While at a conscious level we know that winter turns to spring, and eventually summer, in […]
Belonging Not Burnout
Belonging and meaning are at the core of heart-based leadership. But I never saw clearly how belonging could directly help fight burnout, until we offered a workshop on scaling back from burnout […]
Heart Knowing
At some point in most of our lives, we experience the difference between “knowing” at a mind or brain level and knowing a truth in our hearts. That difference, and the ability […]
Empower Your Team (and Yourself) by Asking for Help
Ever since I was a child, I’ve put the needs of others before my own. I’m a Type Two on the Enneagram — the Helper — and I’ve always been highly sensitive […]
Thinking Abundantly: Who and What Are Already Available?
“What if everything you need is already available?” This is a message we kept posted on a shared whiteboard in our kitchen downstairs for the last few months. It was meant to […]
Taking Off the Earmuffs of Comparisonitis
I consider myself an excellent listener, but there’s one area in my life where I have a hard time hearing what others say — and a few months ago, a friend put […]
We Are All Leaders
Our culture tends to define leadership narrowly. The word itself conjures a certain series of traits: bold, decisive, action-oriented, charismatic. It brings to mind a specific type of person. A person that […]
Safe at Home
Breathing in: I am safe. Breathing out: I am held. As I sat in the hot tub yesterday morning enjoying the sounds of the waterfall in our backyard, the morning birds chirping, […]
This Fractured Self
More expectations than can be managed. Never enough. Never hitting the mark. This fractured self. Will it ever be whole? Lying awake counting Not sheep. But the ways I didn’t measure up […]
Willing
Spirit called: Are you willing? To come home. To be you. Mind clouded. Heart weary. Soul in need. Are you ready? Lay down the armor. Take off the mask. Pause the striving. […]
Scale Back or Burn Out
I was hit with a hard truth last week. I’d had hints of this hard truth surfacing over the last month or more; however, every time the whisper came I quickly buried […]
3 Ways to Overcome Business-Owner Burnout
Does your business look different than it did a year ago? How about two years ago? And, does it look different than it did six months ago? What about just a quarter […]
The Reckoning: A Poem
You knew a reckoning was coming. It wasn’t an if, it was a when. The tears stream when you finally allow yourself to slow. Oh, how you have lost the full picture […]
#ThanksCOVID Part 4: Building on Foundations in the Academy
This is Part 4 of our #ThanksCOVID/BigNews for 2020 series. In the last part, Charlie discussed his journey as it relates to the content he produces and shares here at PF. Just […]