The Journal

Your Brain Believes Whatever You Tell It My daughter was in her first real, intense relationship. And when it ended, she felt like the world was ending right along with it.  We’ve all been there as teenagers and adults. But if you’ve ever loved a teenager through their first heartbreak, you know that there’s little […]

Radical. Rebel. Witchy. Woman. Want to listen to this article? Find the audio version on Radical Ease They try to shut you up because your voice is powerful. You are a powerful force of nature. I know you are because if you weren’t, you wouldn’t be here reading this. I only attract powerful women into […]

Turns out your intuition had receipts all along. I’ve been dabbling in what some folks call “woo woo” practices for years, and in the last 7–10 years, neuroscience has been catching up with what we spiritualists have known for a long time. All these practices people love to label as “woo” are really just ancient […]

The painful truth about being human  Feelings are not facts. They’re not your identity. Feelings are simply messengers. That sounds simple until you’re in the thick of feeling your feelings in a big, uncomfortable way. Until the messenger shows up uninvited, at full volume, dragging a story you thought you’d already closed the book on. […]

There are two things I do every single day, no matter what. I have my coffee, and I do some type of slow somatic movement to awaken, nurture, and connect with my body before the day gets going. For me, these two things are non-negotiable. Your non-negotiables might be different. It’s important to know what’s […]

This one’s for the version of you that keeps rounding down. Let’s get one thing straight before we go any further: this isn’t a “go get ’em, set some audacious goals” kind of piece. I’m not here to hype you into wanting more. I’d much rather talk about something quieter and a lot more insidious […]

I took my sixteen-year-old, Tessa, to Mexico City to see Harry Styles — currently her favorite artist, and mine too these days. Traveling to different countries for concerts has become one of my favorite things, because the tickets are wildly cheaper outside the U.S. Capitalism, much? Even with flights, an Airbnb for four days, Ubers, […]

The other day I took my two youngest to see the live-action Moana. My girls are 16 and 13 now, sharing popcorn and mouthing along to songs they’ve known since they were tiny. And somewhere around “I Am Moana,” I remembered that I wrote an article about this exact song nine years ago. The four-year-old […]

You may already know your Human Design. You’ve probably read your chart, maybe more than once. Perhaps you can even explain your type, your authority, your not-self theme without blinking. Clearly, you understand, intellectually, exactly why you operate the way you do. And you’re still doing the thing you swore you’d stop doing. That’s not […]

Real transformation is often quieter than you think it’s going to be. There’s a lot of conversation in the personal development world about doing “the work.” The journaling, the self-reflection, the practices, the tools. Everyone has something to say about how to start. I’m a big fan of the “start wherever and however you want […]