Inspiration

For many of us, 2025 was a bittersweet year. Perhaps this is true of most years as we look back. For me personally, there were challenging moments, including health challenges and family challenges…

As the new year settles in, there’s often a quiet pressure to move forward quickly. New goals. New routines. New expectations of who we should be now. But before we rush into plans and resolutions, I want to invite you to pause – just for a moment…

January often arrives with a familiar message: eliminate. Cut sugar. Declutter your home. Lose weight. Let go of habits that didn’t work last year. While simplification has its place, many New Year…

As another year gently folds itself away and a new one begins to shimmer on the horizon, we often feel a familiar stirring – a quiet anticipation, soft but steady, like a hand on the small of our back guiding us forward…

Many women tell me something quite astonishing: when they speak French, they feel like a different person. Braver. Freer. More willing to take up space. It’s not the vocabulary…

I’ve been mulling over something different to do this year on New Year’s Eve. For the past several years, I spent NYE surrounded with old magazines, a large piece of tag board, scissors and tape, constructing a vision board….

When I became a hospice volunteer, I imagined – considering my background as a reporter and writer – that I might be able to help people who wanted to write or record their life stories. I thought it would help people make sense…

It’s that time of year again. Everyone is talking about their New Year’s resolutions. Lose weight, get fit, and save money are the most popular. Yet, despite our good intentions, only a tiny percentage of us will actually achieve our goals…

From the sun-baked banks of the Nile to the high plateaus of the Himalayas, to the Yellow River of China, humanity has asked the same questions for millennia: Why are we here? What is the good life? What happens when we die? What is ultimately real?

It was like being hit by lightning! As I stared at those words, the light bulb turned on in my head and the puzzle pieces started falling into place. This made sense! I could become anything I wanted because the way already existed. What I needed to tell myself was that if I could see it in my mind…