If you’ve ever been to a yoga class, while wobbling in Tree pose you may have heard your teacher say, “Find your drishti.” Drishti is a Sanskrit word meaning “focus” or “gaze”, and is used in modern yoga classes to encourage students to find one point in front of them to focus on or to steady … [Read more...] about Find Your Focus By Widening Your View
Motivation/Inspiration
ADHD + Productivity: Yes, I Did a Thing but not That Thing
During the COVID quarantine, I started experiencing some of the worst anxiety I've ever had. Constant, low-level dread about not doing my work well enough, even though feedback from almost everyone around me was positive. After doing some reading and speaking to a therapist, I was diagnosed with … [Read more...] about ADHD + Productivity: Yes, I Did a Thing but not That Thing
Reflecting on a Year of Daily Meditation
Saturday, April 24 will mark 365 days of daily meditation for me. When this post is published, I will be just two days shy of that 1-year milestone. Last year around this time I wrote a 4-part series on meditation, where I gave suggestions on different techniques and general insight as to what … [Read more...] about Reflecting on a Year of Daily Meditation
Case Study: Maghan Haggerty, Taking the Leap with Courage and Support
One year ago, Maghan Haggerty’s coaching business, Connecting Dots, didn’t exist. At that point, she had been freelancing for two years, having departed from 20+ years of working in advertising and marketing. She knew she needed to make a big change, but didn’t trust herself to make it on her own or … [Read more...] about Case Study: Maghan Haggerty, Taking the Leap with Courage and Support
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 of who you are. You’ve known for some time now that you were losing yourself. But you couldn’t find the time to find … [Read more...] about The Reckoning: A Poem
Case Study: Kristin Tweedale, Finding Business Clarity Through Structure
Kristin Tweedale is the founder of The Awesome Ladies Project, a feminist scrapbooking membership community and host of the Crafty Ass Female podcast, based out of East Lansing, Michigan. A few years back Kristin fell into a massive creative rut, where everything felt arduous and seemed to take … [Read more...] about Case Study: Kristin Tweedale, Finding Business Clarity Through Structure
Cory’s Work From Home Office Essentials: Part 1
When I joined Team PF in December 2020, I had already been working from home since 2013. That year I had a young business that wasn’t making much money. I was working from home using our kitchen table as an office in a 1-bedroom apartment. Eventually, I got a desk in the corner of the living … [Read more...] about Cory’s Work From Home Office Essentials: Part 1
Dark and Light
A seed planted in the dark soil of the earth. What will emerge? Will anything? Feeling swallowed by the dark. Light has abandoned me. Again. This dark soil of pain Surrounds me and lets in no light. Perhaps light is no more? The weight is heavy. The feelings seep into every cell of … [Read more...] about Dark and Light
Reckonings and Gratitude
Here in the United States, some will be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, while others will be protesting with a National Day of Mourning or an Unthanksgiving. While I believe it is happening all over the world, I can speak more so to what I have been witnessing and feeling on a national level here … [Read more...] about Reckonings and Gratitude
Sacred Work, Unexpected Beauty, and Honoring Yourself
A few mornings ago, I did something I feel I haven’t done enough of in my life: I cried because I was so overcome with beauty. It was likely no more than a minute of tears, but wow! I felt it to the very core of me. I was honoring what I so clearly needed. For me, tears can come forward with so … [Read more...] about Sacred Work, Unexpected Beauty, and Honoring Yourself
To Love or to Fear
How would you make decisions if you believed that every choice you made was either made from love or fear? If those were the only two “places” or “emotions” or “categories” — and every single action you take comes from a place of love or a place of fear? Perhaps you already feel and think this way? … [Read more...] about To Love or to Fear
To Feed or to Soothe Your Fear?
Right now. Here. In this moment. You are safe. Because you are able to take the few minutes needed to read this, in this moment, you are safe. Welcome to “Fearland” Many of us have struggled with fears throughout this year — and understandably so. There is so much happening that we have no … [Read more...] about To Feed or to Soothe Your Fear?
We Are Not Enemies
*Possible trigger alert: I am talking about politics in this post and I am much more clear and transparent about my own political beliefs that I have been before. If you cannot or do not want to read that, this is definitely a good one to skip. It is all shared with love, though, and I hope you can … [Read more...] about We Are Not Enemies
A Meditation for Fear
I have noticed over the last few days, almost every time I have captured an idea to add to my idea garden for writing, that they revolve around themes of fear and love. Spirit and my higher self have been showing up with messages I need to hear. Messages that are offering some measure of calm. … [Read more...] about A Meditation for Fear
Every Moment Is A Gift
Mere hours after having dinner with his mom he was gone. Hunter was 21 years old and turning the page on a new chapter in his life. He was putting in the work, facing his challenges, and making choices to live fully. Embracing new relationships and saying yes to things that would help him grow … [Read more...] about Every Moment Is A Gift
Love Notes to Lighten the Dark
I shared with you last time about my struggles from mid-August until just recently. About how I’d felt like I was at my limit (and had been there for a while) around what I could process and feel. About so much pain and loss coming at me back to back to back... and that I moved into a place of shock … [Read more...] about Love Notes to Lighten the Dark
To Trust That I Am Not Broken
Am I broken? Have I lost me? Where did I go? Where are the tears? Where is the anger? Where is the sorrow? Where are my emotions? Why am I not on the floor wailing? Why am I not able to open my mouth and share? When did I cross the line? Can I still feel? Am I capable of feeling any … [Read more...] about To Trust That I Am Not Broken
Hope Is Hard
Hope is hard When our skies darken When our world shakes When our homes burn And we feel afraid Hope is hard When our families are split apart When our friendship circles shrink And we feel isolated Hope is hard When our leaders fail us When governments serve themselves At the … [Read more...] about Hope Is Hard