Hello dear one, Last week I sent you the Radical Rest Kit, and I confessed that I'd built it while discovering I had, ironically, run right past my own needs for rest in the process. A lot of you wrote back to check on me, to laugh with me at their own recognition of themselves in similar moments, and that reassured me that I’m not the only one. Thank you. I've been thinking all week about what real rest actually looks like. Because the picture in our heads, the one of someone in bed, doing...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Hello dear one, This week, I noticed myself in a really old pattern, and I wanted to share it with you because I think you might recognize something similar in yourself. A few days ago, I did the very thing I help others learn to do differently. I pushed myself past the point where I should have stopped, ironically working on a Radical Rest Retreat. I worked to exhaustion trying to finish, forgetting everything I know cognitively about rest and the nervous system, until I hit the place I...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Last week, we sent you the very first episode of Thriving Humans. Today I want to tell you about what's happened since then. Episodes two and three are live! Episode two is called Cycle Breaking, and it's the conversation so many of you have wanted me to have with you for a long time. (Rebecca, how do we break these cycles???) Meredith and I had this one ourselves long before we ever pressed record. I know that cycle breaking is one of those phrases that gets thrown around a lot, and most of...
27 days ago • 2 min read
It's here! We made a podcast for people whose inner knowing has been whispering that there's another way. For questioners. For people whose lives stopped working the way they were told they would. For people who suspect that "fine" isn't actually as good as it gets. Each episode is a conversation between Meredith and me. Not an interview. Not a how-to. Just real talk between two people who've lived through some unraveling of conventional life, and who, if we're being honest, are still asking...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Last week I told you that this week, you’d meet Meredith. So here she is! And here we both are. We thought the most honest way to introduce her wasn’t for me to describe her, but for the two of us to answer some questions together the way we’ll be doing it on the podcast. So we sat with five questions. Here’s what we said. How would you describe what you do in one sentence? Meredith: I help people get back in touch with their intuition after years of external messaging telling them what they...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
I want to tell you about someone. Her name is Meredith Alvarado, and next week, you'll hear her voice. She and I are launching a podcast called Thriving Humans. Yes, it’s the same name as this newsletter and the same name as the work I'm doing now, and she is my co-host. Before that happens, I want you to meet her the way I did. It was years ago. She'd come to one of my live online classes way back when the parenting support I offered was only on the telephone. Think landlines. It was that...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
I've been tired in a way that sleeping doesn't fix. Not all the time. Not dramatically. Just a sort of low hum underneath everything. It’s the kind of tired that shows up after years of doing, building, showing up, and caring for others and the things that matter. I suspect I'm not the only one. Mine has its specifics, as I am sure yours does, too. This is something I hear from a lot of the people I sit with both individually and in groups. Collectively, we’re all tired. And then on Thursday,...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read