Finding yourself when you have been pretending to be someone else can be pretty hard. I had been pretending to be someone I was not, for decades. I would hold myself back in conversations as I didn’t feel I could be me, that that wasn’t acceptable. I didn't feel like...
The title of this blog could feel seemingly discombobulating... If the answer to the question is “no”, read on. Surprised by the question and not sure? Read on. When I was younger, my mother said to me that I was a seeker. A seeker, I thought. What does this mean? I...
When I did my first values elicitation process 5-6 years ago I had not yet stumbled upon the term “soul’s values”. That first elicitation experience was helpful, but the value words that I ended up with on my piece of paper weren’t alive somehow. They felt like one of...
Every so often I receive newsletters from ScandiKitchen in London. These newsletters are high-spirited, fun, and quirky, and they always share interesting facts, idioms, and phrases through which we learn more about “Scandis” and the Scandinavian ways. In this week’s...
This blogpost is part of a new series that I call, Conversations Among Friends. It's a series that provides an opportunity for me to chat with or interview people that I consider to be offering potent messages and empowering perspectives in these times of deep change....
In my most recent post, Perfectly Paired – Leadership for our times!, I wrote about the book Perfectly Paired and attributes of soulful leadership. Since I work with soulful leadership, I was inspired to search for the terms “soulful leader” and “soulful leadership”...