Diving deep into the Rites of Passage to help you understand it and apply it to your own life — I talked to a friend the other day who is in the middle of an acrimonious divorce. After she updated me, she shared that her company was about to go through another round of layoffs, her aging parents needed a lot of support, AND her tween son was starting to…

When I was in my mid-20s, I was in a bike accident that landed me in the hospital with a concussion and a severe case of double vision. For several weeks I was unable to work at my waitressing job — let alone see straight — and I plunged into…

Covid kicked my ass, then it saved my life. — Four weeks ago, I started to feel the tell-tale signs — a little tickle in the back of the throat and diminished sense of taste and smell. I’d had Omicron last January when everyone else had it, but it was nothing more than a minor irritation. …

Many years ago, I had an ongoing, back-burner crush on a guy who lived in NY. I was living in San Francisco at the time, but he traveled a lot for work and I did too, so we met up a handful of times in random locations. He was cute…

June 24, 2022 Today, the Supreme Court handed down its verdict to strike down Roe vs Wade. My 14 yo daughter and I are staying with our friends for a couple of days in Baltimore. After the verdict, we contemplate piling into the car and marching in DC, but after…

Here we are again, grieving yet another insane and senseless shooting. This one is in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school. Nineteen little kids and their two teachers who were watching Lilo and Stitch. An entire community is traumatized, and Sandy Hook and Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Buffalo supermarket and…

Rituals are like a Swiss Army Knife of wellness practices—and you can tweak your existing routines to be healthier and in service of your goals — I was having coffee with a few friends the other day; all of us are battling a bunch of stressors in our lives. (And who the actual f isn’t?) We started brainstorming simple tweaks we could make to our daily routines that would support us rather than drain the life…

We cannot control a lot about what’s going on around us, but we can certainly shut this little f*ker down. — Do you ever notice how sometimes you get stuck in an inner mental loop that sounds something like: You really fucked that one up. You should not have ______ and now you’ve ruined everything. If only you hadn’t_______ because now you’ve ruined everything… Or maybe yours is more like: If…

A complete guide to inviting awe—as well as fun and gratitude—to your holidays. — Back before Covid, before computers, or even electricity, as way-far-back as the Stone Age, our neolithic ancestors made a huge deal out of the winter solstice. It’s easy to see why; imagine how terrifying it must have been to observe the Sun — the source of all life — as…