An Unfolding Life
An Orientation to This Space
If you’re new here, this piece offers a starting point—an overview of how I understand change, and the different ways we can learn to listen to what is unfolding in our lives.
Something is Changing
When a role, identity, or way of being no longer quite fits—and what comes next isn’t clear.
A place to pause, reflect, and begin listening for what may be quietly emerging.
Working With What’s Here
When your inner world feels busy, critical, or hard to navigate.
A gentle way of meeting your experience with curiosity—where nothing in you needs to be pushed away.
Listening More Deeply
When you sense there’s more beneath the surface, waiting to be heard.
Practices and reflections that invite you to slow down, soften, and listen for the deeper threads moving through your life.
In Relationship
When connection feels strained, uncertain, or in need of care.
A space to explore how we listen, speak, and meet one another with more honesty and understanding.
The World We Share
When the wider world feels tense, divided, or hard to make sense of.
Reflections on how the work within us shapes the way we show up in the conversations and communities that matter.
An Unfolding Life: Learning to Listen
What does it means to live an unfolding life.
Through reflection, experience, and practice, these writings invite a different way of relating to change—one that begins not with fixing or figuring things out, but with learning to listen more deeply to what is already here.
An Introduction to Parts Work
If you’ve ever felt pulled in two directions, you’ve already met your parts. This is a gentle way of getting to know them—through curiosity, compassion, and a growing sense that everything in you belongs.
What a Room Full of Strangers Taught Me About Bridging Divides
We often think of polarization as something happening “out there”. In politics, media, or other people. But sitting in a Braver Angels workshop, it became clear to me that the same dynamics are alive within each of us. And the path toward bridging divides may begin closer to home than we expect.
Life as an Unfolding Journey
Transitions rarely arrive all at once. Often, they unfold slowly, in stages we can only recognize in hindsight. Here, I explore what it might mean to trust life as an unfolding process- staying with not knowing, easing our rush for clarity, and listening for what is slowly taking shape.
Forgiveness: Returning to Ourselves and Each Other
Forgiveness is often seen as a moral choice or an act of letting go. But I see it more like a human process. An unfolding that asks us to feel what’s true, restore our inner resourcefulness, and return to connection in our own time. In this piece, I explore forgiveness from the inside out: as an embodied process, a relational practice, and a collective capacity we urgently need in a world shaped by conflict and complexity.
Who’s Leading Your Life?
Parts Work introduces a shared language and inner exploration that can produce transformational shifts in our ways of being and acting in the world. Parts Work helps create space between stimulus and reaction so we can start to meet what’s truly present. Ourselves as Presence.
Depolarization Begins Within
We’re living in polarized times. It feels uncomfortable, and often deeply personal. But polarization begins within us. And when we learn to navigate our inner divides, we discover new ways to meet the outer ones with more clarity, compassion, and courage.
A Slow Practice in Perception and Creativity
What happens when we slow down enough to truly see ourselves, the world, and our inner experience? I explore what Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is teaching me about perception, creativity, and qualities of Presence. It’s an invitation to listen more deeply, and rediscover the wonder in simply looking.
Following The Thread of Our Core Needs
What really drives our actions, reactions, and relationships? Beneath every conversation, conflict, or collaboration lies a set of core needs influencing how we show up in the world. When we begin to recognize and understand them, both in ourselves and others, we unlock new possibilities for connection, clarity, and growth.
Feelings Are Meant to Be Felt
What are your feelings trying to tell you? It’s worth our time to explore. Our emotions hold deep wisdom, guiding us toward our needs, values, and priorities. When we learn to welcome and understand them, we unlock greater clarity, resilience, and purpose in navigating life’s complexities.
Listening to Understand & Learn
The final lesson in Clear & Compassionate Communication is learning how to listen. We often think of communication as what we say, but what about how we listen? In our fast-paced world, slowing down to truly hear someone is a powerful, transformative act.
Befriending Your Inner Critic
If you are facing self-doubt, perfectionism, or procrastination, your inner critic may be active. It’s possible to transform our relationship with our inner critic. By approaching it with curiosity and compassion, we can uncover its positive intentions and move toward deeper self-acceptance.
Aspirations & Ancestors
Reflection connects us to our progress, offering a satisfying sense of clarity and gratitude. Can we also dare to explore our deepest desires and aspirations, not just what we’ve done, but what we truly long for? In doing so, we step into the role of a good ancestor, recognizing that the choices we make today, our dreams, actions, and care for the present, shape the world that future generations will inherit.
Unfolding vs. Self Improvement
We’re often pulled toward constant self-improvement, but lasting change unfolds differently. Here, I share a reflection on the distinction between improving, developing, and allowing life to unfold—and what becomes possible when we ease the pressure to fix ourselves.
Grounding and Centering Practice
As we transition from summer vacations, long days, outdoor activities, and often the more unstructured time of the summer, many are adjusting to the back-to-school, back-to-work routines, structure, deadlines, and all the demands that come with this.
I’d like to offer a centering practice that can assist with this transition.
The Week
I recently hosted a group viewing of The Week. It is a powerful group experience that creates space for people to have brave conversations about the climate emergency, and what can be done about it right now. Here I share my reflections and point us to the wisdom of feeling our emotions and what is possible when we do so.
Transformation and Lasting Change
What enables transformation? What gets in the way of change? It’s through responding and doing something differently and consistently that we feel the shift that some transformation has occurred.
Welcome to Wholeness
January is the time when we often look at the year ahead and set a resolution. Or maybe you simplify and just find a word to represent and guide your year. What I’d like to offer you instead is a bit of a paradox. What if you started with the premise that nothing is missing?
Becoming a Certified B Corp
B Corp is an opportunity to reaffirm your organizational DNA. Your purpose, who you are, and what you do. It voluntarily drives new organizational behaviors within a framework that provides rigorous assessment. It’s the only framework that provides a tangible and measurable road map but you get to decide what is most important and what to pursue. Inherent in the model is a bias to action. Small wins add up! It’s holistic and it focuses on learning and continuous improvement. And it’s stakeholder-driven. Win-win-win! So how do you start?
Golden Threads
In the tapestry of life, there isn't just one golden thread, but many interwoven strands. All it takes to begin is a little curiosity and a willingness to look inward.