A full-house WRISE SF workshop exploring purpose through personal symbolism, names, and regrets and how a living Purpose Portfolio helps women thrive.
Self Care
Why Purpose-Driven Goals Help Professional Women Follow Through
Winter, Alignment, Family, Purpose, Relationships, Self Care, Self-Awareness, Work
Research shows goals stick when they’re rooted in purpose. Learn what truly helps professional women sustain meaningful goals and lasting change.
Why Most New Year Goals Don’t Stick and What Actually Helps
Winter, Alignment, Family, Play, Purpose, Relationships, Self Care, Self-Awareness, Work
Why most New Year goals don’t stick and what research shows actually helps. Explore how purpose, meaning, and support create lasting change.
A Crack in the Armor, for Which I Am Grateful
Fall, Purpose, Self Care, Self-Awareness, Surrender, Transformation, Transitions, Work
It was late on a Friday night. Storms were pouring down across California that spring evening, delaying flights at both ends of the state. My team and I were trying to get home...
Finding Your North Star: Living with Purpose as an Individual
Fall, Purpose, Self Care, Self-Awareness
Why Purpose Matters: From Words to Action Finding Your North Star: Living with Purpose as an IndividualFor individuals, articulating and activating purpose isn’t just...
Why “Why” Is Hard — And Why It Matters
Fall, Purpose, Self Care, Self-Awareness, Work
Why Purpose Matters: From Words to Action Why “Why” Is Hard—And Why It MattersWhy is articulating “why” so hard? For most people, teams, and organizations, answering what they do...
Purpose is Alive — And Thrives in Community
Summer, Alignment, Appearances, Purpose, Relationships, Self Care, Self-Awareness, Transitions, Work
In August I had the joy of gathering with a thoughtful group of women in the LEAF (Local Ecology Agriculture Fremont) Community Garden for a Purpose Portfolio Workshop. Imagine a...
Five Ways to Bloom Even in These Times
Summer, Family, Relationships, Self Care, Self-Awareness, Transitions, Work
Are you feeling depleted by the state of the world? Stressed by the sheer velocity of change? You’re not alone. Nor are you powerless. These five strategies are reminders that...
Permission to Put Down the Oars
Mindfulness, Fall, Self Care, Self-Awareness
In the act of putting down your oars, you have the opportunity to open to new possibilities, to allowing grace to act in, through and as you.
Permission to Be in the Between Space
Self Care, Self-Awareness, Spring, Transitions
A Permission to Bloom post by Margaret B. Reese titled Permission to Be in The Between Space
Permission to Prune
Winter, Mindfulness, Self Care, Self-Awareness, Transitions
A Permission to Bloom post by Glenna Wiseman titled Permission to Prune
Permission to Bloom Self-Compassion
Winter, Mindfulness, Self Care, Self-Awareness
A Permission to Bloom post by Glenna Wiseman titled Permission to Bloom Self-Compassion
Permission to Awaken New Possibilities
Winter, Artwork, Mindfulness, Near Death Experience (NDE), Poetry, Self Care, Self-Awareness
This moment is my moment of choice. We have forgotten who we truly are beyond the nature of duality. The current reality put forth by consciousness of the populace simply doesn’t...
Permission to Let the Decorations Bring Joy
Winter, Family, Holidays, Relationships, Self Care
Even if you don’t know how the holiday will come together, give yourself permission to decorate and let the decorations bring you joy anyway. The times when we are in financial...
Permission to Respond with Love
Winter, Family, Holidays, Relationships, Self Care
There are things in life beyond our control: the death of a loved one, a pandemic, climate change. In moments when these events whirl around us that we are called to respond with...
Permission to Know You are Wanted
Fall, Mindfulness, Self Care, Self-Awareness
No matter what circumstances surround your early life, you are still wanted. If those circumstances, and the energetic milieu in which you were born were not life affirming, you incorporated some or all of that into your early energetic belief systems.
Permission to Harvest Self-Care
We can breathe into, take time, take a walk, calm down and be in the question of what a particularly triggering or difficult situation is asking us to heed. If we do, we will see patterns and understand new ways we can add to the list of proactive self-care.
Permission to Lead a More Deeply Satisfying Life
Fall, Alignment, Purpose, Self Care, Transitions
Give yourself permission to lead a more deeply satisfying life.


















