New Year Energy often has us feeling like we need to hit the ground running right out of the gate. Ironically, the timing of this occurs in winter - a season of slowing down, lower energy, resting, and restoring. Any hard and fast energy, disciplined and unflinching, feels counterintuitive to me. What if we worked WITH the energy of the world rather than in spite of it?

There’s Christmas and there’s Christmas through the eyes of your kiddo. But then there’s Christmas after you’ve done a ton of healing work.

I ran some numbers this morning and realized my coaching practice has generated 65% more this year than what it did in 2022. (And there are still 10 weeks to go!). But it sure doesn’t feel like it.

HOT TAKE: January 1st is not a clean slate. If you’ve subscribed to some version of “new year, new me” as of midnight tonight, please consider the following before the ball drops: starting over does not mean you are starting at ground zero.

It took me admitting that out loud to realize that, while I have been living and creating this amazing life, I’ve been collecting all of the ingredients for a top notch pity party. I convinced myself my “despite it all” was a part of me. Those things happened! They made me stronger, wiser, more compassionate - qualities I admire about myself. I didn’t realize how I’d subconsciously grown attached to those scenarios because I knew how to thrive there.

Anything you can do, moms can do with one hand and no sleep.

Uninspired by all things entrepreneurial, I briefly considered closing up shop all-together thinking, “Maybe this isn’t for me anymore.  Maybe I’ve had a good run with it.”  With the help of my coach, I got to see that this thought was less about my experience coaching and more about how I was running my business. With that shift in perspective, I got present to some re-invention in my business. Stuff that was actually already happening that I actually just had to allow and accept.  Here is what’s going on.

I shared my reflection here with her this week: I think God is course correcting, and doing so in the way that’s bound to right the ship - by leaving it to the women. We have been called to raise a kinder, more compassionate, less ignorant and less fearful generation of men.

I snapped a photo of this morning’s sunrise in the middle of the chaos. I remember being shocked and how vivid it was, and then pissed that all this construction work was in the way. But it’s actually an accurate representation of how life is - beautifully imperfect.

Last year I started coaching two particular women in the same month. Both incredibly magnetic. Both recently single after sudden ends to relationships. Both feeling called to find themselves again in order to move forward fully grounded in who they are.A common theme in sessions with all my clients is the idea of creating a home within ourselves. Us women often find this to be a faraway concept at times due to years of putting others needs first. We don’t know what we truly want or need because we’ve shoved it down too long.With each of them we dove in and did the work to discover what they needed to feel grounded and connected to the essence of themselves. Wouldn’t you know that a few short months of creating a home within led to them both buying actual brick and mortar homes. It’s true - your outsides are reflections of your insides.