Hear The Beauty Around You
Less than two weeks until Christmas. How are you feeling? Have you felt the magic of the season yet? The depth and the miracles? Last week, the boys, David, Luna and I drove to the main square of our historic Franklin downtown to see the Christmas tree lighting. We...
How to Create a Life You Love
This past week, I spent a lot of time visualizing. I got a really beautiful intention exercise from my Chopra certification program and I used it both on myself and to help my coaching clients. It really works! I know this because when I look back at my life,...
Stay Grounded in the Face of Chaos
Tell me if this sounds familiar... You have a big holiday or an event coming, and you focus all your energy on it. You tell yourself once it’s over, then you’ll tend to everything else in your life. Right? Well, from the perspective of a mom who wanted to soak up...
Let Your Heart Guide Your Plans
Soon, it will be Thanksgiving. How are you feeling? What are your plans? And what do you envision, hope, or want to happen? I drove to Savannah to pick up one of my boys from college and bring him home for the Holidays. The oldest will fly home on Monday and we will...
Give Yourself Credit and Grace
“Give yourself more credit than criticism, more grace than judgment," Kristina Kuzmic* said from the stage in a packed Nashville venue. My friend and I looked at each other. Yes. We both nodded in agreement. I don’t remember the last time somebody had me belly...
Have You Asked Yourself This Question?
I’m sure at some point in your life you have asked yourself the question: “What is my purpose?” (Another way people ask this question is "What is God’s will for my life?" What did it feel like when you found an answer or even a hint of it? What did you do when you...
Start Living With an Awakened Soul
And just like that, the days got colder and the evenings darker. I roasted a pumpkin, made a pumpkin curry soup and a loaf of pumpkin bread and let the fragrance of fall spices fill the house. I needed the warm, grounding, heavier foods after the winds came in,...
A Special Opportunity
Last Sunday, my sixteen-year-old son, Blais, took me out to dinner. He was excited to share with me a little sushi place run by a husband and wife. We sat down and just as he finished telling me how the chef remembered everyone, the chef approached our table with a...
Honor Your Pain and Lean Into Love
This year, we closed the concert and our tour with Those Were the Days. The audience sang with us, cried with us, laughed at Brian’s comic moment, and at the end of the song, they stood up and applauded for a long time. We all felt moved, elevated, expanded, our...
What Do You Keep Putting Off?
We’ve driven over 4,200 miles and done 11 shows over two and a half weeks. It’s been a wonderful tour! It’s so amazing to hear the audience laugh and to hold their breath as we sing a moving song. We have been the inaugural concert of the new after-Covid season for...