Building Intuition Through Failure

Oh, my gosh, I did it again! Wendy has been working on presenting her second case in court: the first one was a disaster. She’s practiced and paced the floor of her apartment for hours going over and over her points. And, each time she faces the judge, she...

Feel With Your Senses

An old emotion rippled over me yesterday. Here’s how it went – I was thinking about how to solve a current problem and that thinking took me to a memory from graduate school, and that…took me to an old emotion associated with a past...

Recognizing Happiness

Ask a child what they really, really…want and you’ll get a concrete answer. Something like, “I want my mommy and daddy to hug each other” or “I want a puppy.” Ask an adult what they really, really…want and usually the answer is abstract; something that’s difficult to...

Writing Our Stories

A few weeks ago I got a call about about writing an article for my home town hospital auxiliary fundraising campaign. Connie wanted the article to revisit a time when a piece of equipment, purchased by the hospital auxiliary, was used to save my life. The...

How Do You Know If You’re Being You?

If I hear one more time…someone say to someone else…“just be yourself” I’m going to scream! “Oh, Danielle…just be yourself” I heard her say. I was standing in the check-out line at Target behind two women who were deep into conversation; I think they were talking...