Waking Up to Hope

Waking Up to Hope

My alarm goes off at 5 am each morning. As I wake up, I lie in bed and pray – prayers of thanksgiving and prayers requesting guidance.  Sometimes this lasts 30 minutes, other times close to an hour. I then get up and even if some tiredness may linger, I feel...
How Being Heard Sets You FREE

How Being Heard Sets You FREE

I remember meeting a man from my mastermind group early one spring morning to trail run in the foothills outside of Denver. As we climbed the hills alongside a small stream, rows of pine trees, and the sagebrush reaching for the sky, he began to share the story of his...
The Empowerment of the Darkness

The Empowerment of the Darkness

Here I am. No friends. No family. A job I don’t love. Alone in a country that is not my own, speaking a language that is not my native tongue. Here, I tell myself, here is where I am meant to learn that if I can be ok, here, without all the things I am...
You’re so stupid! Turning lies into gold.

You’re so stupid! Turning lies into gold.

You’re so stupid.   My mom said this to me in a fit of frustration when I accidentally locked the car keys in the trunk. Instead of criticizing my action, my being, who I was, was being criticized. This hurt. The reason that it hurt was because it was of...