Before Autumn began, I wrote a blog post similar to My #1 Tactic for Overcoming Summer Stagnation*… but Autumn energy is different for me. In Summer I feel heavy & sluggish. I struggle to enjoy the heat and light, so that list served as a reminder of ways to enjoy a season that's challenging.

What do you do when you’re facing your least favorite season? Summer is the most challenging season for me, so I’m always looking at different tactics and mindset strategies to lean into Summer’s gifts

There are ways to cultivate a relationship with yourself. To develop your intuition. To know yourself and uncover the wisdom you carry.

That’s what we do together in Writing With The Moon. I hold this space as a place to practice and listen. You show up for yourself and for the others in the circle. The experience is guided so you are held, and there’s also freedom for you to explore what shows up for you.

When you tend all the things and people around you but forget to tend your own deep well, that well can run dry. You feel lost, looking outside yourself for answers. There is a way to cultivate this connection with yourself. To develop your own intuition so you trust yourself again.

A good reading can help you walk away loving yourself more and being on the side of yourself instead of wanting to change everything. Awareness is a powerful tool, and readings are one way to gain awareness.

Readings when partnered with a skilled coach can help you take your life in a direction you want it to go while taking your nature into consideration. A coach can help you hold the vibration you are wanting to hold, and a good coach can help you brainstorm options when you only have one way of seeing.

When a friend asked me what motivated me to give up caffeine, especially with all that giddy pleasure wrapped up in it, I blurted that I wanted to be in tune with my own energy.

Oooh, I took a moment to listen to myself.

A deeper layer of joy for me is to love myself more, just as I am.

As a coach I don’t disregard what you’re going through. I hold you in that space, and yet I hold the torch for your dreams. For your life. I don’t want your suffering to dictate everything. Together we cultivate your ability to see through the lenses of the life you want and then to cultivate that life. Yes, it’s a new way of being. Yes, transformation comes with its own discomfort. But it’s so worth it to grow and blossom.

It’s time to come out of the oven. 2020 threw everything at you, and here you are. Standing at the Threshold of the Cocoon of Winter. Mere days away from turning the page to a new calendar year. What has this crucible of a year crafted you into?

Whatever your story about 2020, there are lessons in this year. What are you learning? About yourself? the world? people? how you think and feel? Looking at the lessons helps alleviate the drama about how the lessons arrived. Thanks to Mark Manson for this prompt.

Death teaches much about life. Death can be a cheerleader for life, reminding you every day to go for it because one day you won't be able to.

Death encourages you to love more and focus on what matters. Death wants you to enjoy life and to spread it around by living and sharing life. To love and laugh and challenge yourself to grow.

When you tune into what you're heading towards and why you're doing it — which boils down to how it will make you feel — it makes the whole roller coaster worth it.

Do you need someone to help hold this intention and keep you in the vibration of holding space for yourself? Is it even possible to hold space for yourself? Because holding space is a misnomer. What’s actually needed is permission to let go. A relaxing of your grip so you can stop holding. The deeper yearning is to be held.