Character > Credentials – prioritizing great people over great resumes.

Whether you’re hiring for your business or letting someone into your life, like a housekeeper or careiver, stakes are always higher than a resume – that perfectly prepared paper doesn’t take priority, since it can’t genuinely speak to the character or integrity of who it’s presenting. So even if it aligns with the job “perfectly,” it’s always secondary. What I’ve learned after years of trial and error, I know how to spot the people who truly belong.”

Would you wear an invisible force field that ensures lack of interaction?

Wearing something that says: “Don’t bother me” is like an invisible impenetrable force field that ensures lack of interaction… but without people in your life there cannot be feedback to help you grow and evolve. As human beings, we need each other. So when I see someone wearing essentially a sandwich board that screams “Don’t Bother Me,” I experience a wave of sadness…

How does your “losing it” story go?

How do you present yourself to the outside world? Personally, I used to hide my emotional pain and look normal enough. Professional, successful, measured. But behind that facade lived my wounded self.

Can Cannabis Make You Crazy?

As a professional embracing the judicious use of cannabis in an innovative approach to trauma resolution, I often encounter individuals worried about the aftermath of “taking too much” cannabis. Typically, their concern is linked to an undefined yet deep-seated fear that something negative might happen.

Neck Check: When Aging and Poultry Collide

Ah, the infamous “turkey neck” – the charming little souvenir that time bestows upon us as we gracefully age. It’s as if one day, I was confidently wearing a favorite necklace, and the next,  contemplating turtlenecks in the peak of summer.

Calling all cellulite (cell-u-💡)

This experiment is still in its early days – now in my 9th week, I’m fully immersed in what’s surfacing for me! My assignment is a full year – 52 weeks of paying attention, week by week, to the constant stream of self-judgment about my body and my face. And let me tell you, it’s eye-opening.

Boys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses

To this day I have a tinge of self consciousness when I wear my glasses – after all these decades of “shame work” I’ve done on myself. And that’s even after proving over and over again that, indeed, boys do make passes at girls who wear glasses! (But, of course, in this day and age, “boys making passes” is likely an outdated concept.)

He Called Me a [Cannabis] Pioneer!

Can I simply say that, he gets me? Stephen Dinan, the founder and president of the Shift Network said, “For a long time, I’ve wanted to find someone who could really teach us how to work with cannabis in a conscious way… show us how [cannabis] can be an ally in our growth, in our evolution, our emotional healing.”