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It is strange but true, that the most important turning points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways. –Napoleon Hill, author and alleged conman Messy Times. In my six decades on this planet, I’ve never experienced a messier time. And with the speed of techno

"I-Am-s" are statements of our deepest truths and longings. Recently I was reminded of my own I-Am-s when a client who had been emotionally stuck for a while came in with a list of her own. How I Got Started Many years ago, perhaps around 2001, I invested in meditation tapes from a company called Ce

Create and Re-imagine Dear Loyal Readers, Well, it's not Monday, but here we are! Welcome to Summer! Perhaps you are taking a vacation or maybe a "staycation" -- either way, we thought as you turned toward the summer slow down, we would send out a message for reflection as you regroup. Yes...our own

Happy Messy Monday, Friends! Mine has been super messy (no, it's not just you) and suffice to say, I didn't get this message out as planned! Here's the update: Amy and I have just completed 2 series for this beginning of 2018 in our Year 3 Regrouping. Amy is about to be gone several weekends leading

This is week four of our February Relationship Series that is building on our January Start the Year Well Series of the Skill, Practice, Practice, Practice : Keep Doing It. Sometimes I just think we are relationally lazy. Before you feel offended, I have to ask, “Don’t you think that the things we d

If your relationship is important to you, I encourage you to find a way to nourish and protect it. Now. Relationships are fragile. Vulnerable. Breakable. Why? Because they exist between two fragile, vulnerable, breakable people. My two closest relationships, the one with my husband and the one with

Maybe you’ve caught on by now: Our February Relationship Series is designed to take last month’s Start the New Year Well skills and apply them specifically to relationships. So why in the world would I suggest that you stop chasing happiness in your relationship? Our relationships are to provide us

What are your relationship goals for 2018? What? Goals, you say? We have no relationship goals. We just go from day to day hoping for the best. And no, things have not gotten better and we are not where we want to be as a couple. (this could also apply to friendships or parent-child relationships.)

It will be worth the wait. Since the beginning of Life is Messy, Life is Marvelous, we have marked February as our Relationship Month. As we reflect on our lives, there is little doubt that relationships are vital to most of us. We live in our relationships (of all types) every day. We are supported

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, Practice, Practice! This joke was told often in my childhood home. Each of us Sander kids took music lessons of some sort, and we were all varsity athletes. So there was lots of practicing going on in our home. Indeed it could get loud if I was practicing t