Hurricanes, Office Fashion and the Crazy Professor in the Women’s Studies Department

You can take the yoga teacher out of the yoga room, but... For the past 5 or so years my daily wardrobe has consisted of yoga pants, organic tees and cozy wraps. When I started working full time again I definitely needed to make some shifts to my wardrobe.  You just can't get away with…

There’s a fork in the blogging road.

There's a bunch of stuff that I have been meaning to write about, but haven't found the time words. I really want to talk about how I broke up with yoga in 2012, but I am just not there yet. Perhaps next week. We have a first date scheduled.  I miss my mat. Perhaps I…

Finding Your Tribe

Sometimes you move through life with a powerful tribe. Sometimes you quietly stand in the shadows of many. And sometimes you move from tribe to tribe, gathering what nurtures you most.  Right now, I am somewhere in between tribes; lurking in the shadows of some and trying to shine the light on another. It has…

Acceptance, Finding My Path and Winning the Lottery

For those of you that don't already know, in October, I stepped down as co-owner of Live. Breathe. Grow.  I haven't talked about it, because it has been an extremely painful process for me.  I have been struggling with my emotional response. Breaking up with a business partner is pretty analogous to divorce; it has…

Once, Always.

In 1994, I was a sophomore at Emerson College. Emerson was weird, artsy and quirky. There wasn't a "quad" there was "the wall." There wasn't homecoming, there was the Evvy's. And there were a group of women who wanted to do their own thing. Traditional Greek Life wasn't for the women who were to become…

Seduction of the unknown

Today is the first week, in over 8 years that the only responsibility I have (outside my home and husband) is to go to work from 8:30am - 5:00pm. There's no class to teach or training to go to. No homework to complete. No clients to meet with.  No website to update. No  shirts to…

The Politics of Facebook Memes.

This morning I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and came across a post that made me sit back and think. Oftentimes I find myself on Facebook clicking "likes" without really opining on the words. Usually it's just a pretty picture.  Perhaps it was the dirty chai or listening to Sirius POTUS (somewhat  crushing on,…

International Women’s Day: Perspective on Change.

When I was a Senior in college, majoring in Political Communication and Campaign Management I wrote my thesis on the 1970s ERA Campaign. (For those of you that have no idea what I am talking about when I say ERA please educate yourself here. Cliff's notes version: Equal Rights Amendment was a Constitutional Amendment proposed…

Strong Women

Strong Women are those who know the road ahead will be strewn with obstacles, but they still choose to walk it because it's the right one for them. Strong Women are those who make mistakes, who admit to them, learn from those failures, and then use that knowledge. Strong Women are easily hurt, but they…

I’m a Doula!

Last week I spent 3 days training with film maker, author and doula Debra Pascali-Bonaro and 21 amazing women from Northern Jersey and CT for my DONA training. I have been trying to figure out how to put this experience into words...and it isn't easy. I am a doula, a 'woman's servant' a trained professional…