I am writing to you from King Spa, a shvitz palace I’ve been coming to for the better part of the last decade. Vat is a schvitz you ask? Shvitz is a yiddish word that means “to sweat”, and around the world, many cultures (including Korean) create venues where people can go to sweat intentionally. In Russia, you’ll get beaten with […]
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We’re on hour 4 1/2 of my husband’s 2 hour pre-planned surgery. He’s having a rib removed due to recurring blood clots. The surgery is running 2 1/2 hours late and I’m not sure why. There’s a reason it’s running late, I just don’t know what it is. And I can’t get to the people who
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I like math. I love to balance my checkbook, and as my clients know, I invoice on the regular. I like accounting and P&Ls. Straight lines, formulas that work. Math is a dream for a neat-and-tidy person like myself. And then, math can get trippy. Asymptotes! Mandelbrot Fractals! I’ve never chewed mischievous mushrooms but when I zone out
For my annual resolution, I always pick a word. And that word represents something I need to replenish; something I’d like to have more on in my life. In the past the words have been abundance, enough-ness, and love. For 2019, I chose clarity. For me, clarity means feeling all the feels, as uncomfortable as they
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This morning, I woke to an email from “Good Morning Britain” a UK breakfast show. They wanted to have me on their show, stat. Seemed a little odd for this American mom to get the call to appear on British celebrity TV, however I had recently been interviewed for Grazia Daily UK, so the call wasn’t
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Several months ago, a client showed up for our Zoom session with his Durga shirt on. He told me, “This is my Durga shirt and I’m wearing it for you!” I had no idea who Durga was. I shared this and he spared not a moment delighting me with tales of the Hindu Goddess of
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Storytelling is an ancient art and a hot new thing. It was the talk of Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (theme: Re-imagining storytelling), is all the rage with SEO optimization, and your Ted Talk to-be; it’s in the air. I frequently discuss storytelling with clients; our brains like a complete story. That’s part of why it’s hard to make
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So the other day my four-year-old cornered me in the locker room at our town pool. “Mom, can you help me walk over to those girls and ask them if I can be their friend?” Ugh. Not this. Those girls were older, tall and thin, blonde, possibly wearing lip gloss, doing some sort of song
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Dear Allison, My husband and I have a healthy marriage. We go on date nights about three times a month. On the weekends, we are intimate. No matter how tired my husband is after work, he always spends quality time with our son. And before fully winding down for the evening, he makes sure bills
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