I don’t think it is that I need to get out of my own way. I just accept that I am not going to and work around myself; like a climbing vine creeping and curling ever upward no matter what is in its path. Jen Verharen and I share the same green island…
Category Archives: personal development
Unfurling with Jamie Ridler
I believe … in celebration. In finding the courage to be who we are meant to be. Our bodies are wise. There is room for you, all of you. In you go The cocooning phase of unfurling is more uncomfortable for some of us than others. Those who are closer…
Can You Cocoon? The Challenge and Power of Taking a Rest
(photo via Suzanne Rico, Pinterest) The fallow field. 9 months in the womb. Athlete’s down days. Summer vacation. Rest, inactivity, turning inward, solitude : in the big picture they are just as important as the more active “doing” parts of whatever you are cooking, growing or becoming. When we decompress we open ourselves to new…
Unfurling with Lindsey Mead
…in the last several years this sorrow opened wide enough in the center of my life that I could no longer ignore it. This black hole, to which I’m drawn inexorably, like a planet in orbit, is the brutal truth that it all passes, every single moment, gone even as I live it. …
Unfurling with Bridget Pilloud
In my coaching work, I use the metaphor of an unfurling fern to help my clients see how to participate in bringing themselves more fully, joyfully and authentically alive. In the context of this metaphor, the act of unfurling is catalyzed by a message of “yes!” from within…
Unfurling with Lynn Baldwin-Rhoades
I believe that you, like me, are becoming ever truer to yourself. Isn’t this why we so long to create meaningful work we love? Isn’t this what we as women do naturally given the intention and space – become more ourselves? And in our work, that core part of us is what nourishes our gifts…
Unfurling with Amy Oscar
Ah, cosmic voyager, if you only knew. You are a beloved child of the universe with a meaningful and important purpose. That purpose? To learn, to love, to live – as fully and deeply as you possibly can. You don’t need more training, more study, more stuff. No more penance. Nothing to fix. No…
Unfurling with Anna Guest-Jelley
I believe in the many shapes and faces and sizes of us. That reclaiming our voice is our most important work. And that we can use it to trumpet the good word that we’re uniquely here to offer. Sometimes an unfurling is catalyzed by a particularly poignant…
The Unfurling Series : A Round-Up
Molly Mahar. Tanya Geisler. Rachel Cole. Amanda Farough. Dyana Valentine. Andrea Olson. Julie Daley. Ronna Detrick. Jennifer Louden. Kate Courageous. 10 women dishing on their delicious, sometimes-thorny, fascinating versions of unfurling. 10 perspectives on what it is to look closely at that thing you’ve been cocooning until now. That thing that’s finally coming out and…
Unfurling with Molly Mahar
I have a sneaking suspicion that a world of fulfilled joyful women equals radical acts of goodness, widespread emotional and physical health, creative expression, equality, and core level compassion. Molly Mahar is unfurling again. And while the others were big, this one is huge. She’s about…
