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If you are committed to doing the work required to extend your anti-racism efforts, it’s a wonderful thing. And it is so important to start by looking within your own heart and mind. After all we can’t be part of… more →
I support Black Lives Matter, undoing systemic racism, and doing what it takes to make our country and the world equitable. If you’re hurting in the wake of Jacob Blake, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and the too-damn-long list of black… more →
I say all the time: you can’t change a habit you don’t know you have. Which means that raising your awareness so that you can acknowledge that something isn’t working out so well is the first step in change, whether… more →
Planning is nearly impossible right now. Will schools be back in the fall? Is it safe to fly, and even if we decide it’s safe, will flights be canceled? If you’ve been furloughed, when will you get called back? Will… more →
A huge piece of the work of minimizing an outbreak of any infectious disease is called contact tracing—it’s the tedious, old-fashioned work of figuring everyone an infected person has come into contact with and then reaching out to those people… more →
The way you self-talk is both a reflection and an influence of how you feel about yourself. It’s the same in your relationships with other people too. If someone is constantly saying mean, disparaging, discouraging things about you, would that… more →
Today’s tip, which I hope you’ll implement right away because it gives you some stability which can be deeply calming, is to develop a routine for yourself and the people in your household. Why? Because during uncertain times a daily… more →
We are all judging each other, times a million right now. Judgment feels really righteous and kind of awesome in the moment, because we’re feeling that not only are we right about something, but someone else is wrong. It makes… more →
This week on the podcast I’m talking about judgment and how to examine your biases. Not judgment as in the good judgment we try to instill in our kids. Or judgment as in, you went to court and received a… more →
Today’s big idea is that a lot of our judgy thoughts come from assumptions. We size someone or something up by filling in a lot of blanks in our own mind and then putting those assumptions in a category of… more →