Silver Linings: The Benefits of Being a Super-feeler

by | Sep 20, 2021

Last year, just a few months into the COVID-19 shutdown, one of my dear friends reached out to me on Face Time. She started the conversation by saying, “I heard someone share in a work seminar that if you have any extroverted friends, you should check on them because...

Do You Need a Self-Care Intervention?

by | Jun 30, 2017

Nothing says I love you like a friend who is willing to tell you the truth. Even if it stings a little.  Rewind to about a month ago. I was having coffee with a friend, willing the caffeine and conversation to give me the energy I needed to push through my...

Reflections From the Waiting Room

by | Feb 14, 2017

As I write this, I am sitting in the waiting room. Literally. My husband is having surgery today. While it is apparently a fairly common procedure in the surgical world, he has been nervous about it. I think the urgency with which his surgeon felt it needed to be...

The Girls With the Hope Tattoo

by | May 1, 2016

They make me laugh until I cry. They have sat with me during some of the darkest days of my life, offering comfort with their presence when there were no words to ease the pain. They have told me the truth when no one else would. They have believed in me, when I...

Easier Doesn’t Mean Better

by | Oct 9, 2015

The Pacific Northwest offers some amazing hiking. This past summer, when the June gloom that Seattle is known for began to burn off, and the sun made its official initial summer-has-begun appearance right after the fourth of July, my husband and I began discussing...