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Montana Parent Lorca Profile
Thank you Julie Kleine and Montana Parent Magazine for celebrating local women leaders for International Women’s Day in their latest...
Feb 19, 20191 min read
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A Hunger for Joy — Lorca’s TEDx
I found when I had told this story here that I had never told it before — not like this. We find the opening when what needs to be...
Jun 18, 20181 min read
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Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral?
“And you would be…?” Good morning, dearests. Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral? I think I just did. I had a rare...
Apr 13, 20173 min read
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“You Can Do This Hard Thing”: The Odd Road to Tougher
A firefighter told me yesterday that when he started working with me on his resilience he was excited because he thought that he was...
Dec 21, 20162 min read
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Compash-Imagination
GAMES BEYOND ESCAPISM… Play. RADICAL COMPASSION: Compash-Imagination TOOLS: field notebook and good pen, a timer, other humans, and a...
Mar 30, 20163 min read
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Ignite Your Creativity
Teaching is about information and understanding. Coaching, however, is for intuition and implementation. Here’s a 2-minute video if...
Mar 6, 20162 min read
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Luminations — Being flame…
luminations noun, plural. 1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity. See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, work, love,...
Dec 8, 20151 min read
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Luminations — Loosening A Grip on Overwhelm
luminations noun, plural. 1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity. See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, love, home. 2....
Dec 1, 20151 min read
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Fighting terrorism from where you are
Dear ones, this morning I, too, am torn, deeply sad and sorry and worried, reaching out to friends to know they’re safe, aware...
Nov 14, 20151 min read
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Radical Awakeness: Living Among Animals
Spoken to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman for the Blessing of the Animals… I was invited to share today in part because...
Sep 28, 20154 min read
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Resilience Myth #3: The Awesome Work Ethic
In the last post, we looked at the resilience Myth #2: “I’ll evade burnout with careful time management.” So stop and think for a moment...
Jan 22, 20152 min read
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Staying Resilient in 2015: The Biggest Myths — Myth #2
To give you one more idea around this one, Robert Grudin, who is one of my favorite thinkers, wrote in his book on time, “On this subject...
Jan 5, 20152 min read
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Averting Burnout This Year: The 4 Biggest Myths — #1
For a time, I crashed down into a full-on burnout once every ten years: three times in three ways — once through tragedy, once as a...
Dec 30, 20141 min read
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Burnout is an open door.
Sometimes I feel I must be an alien, because I really, really love to talk about death, and about burnout. But this is really why. When I...
Feb 18, 20141 min read
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