Listen to this as a podcast or read below. I am an expert in being overwhelmed. And I’m pretty sure you are too, given the pressures of our daily lives. Not something we ever planned to be, right? Life’s just given us plenty of opportunities to fumble our way through the often too-much-ness of it. […]
Listen to this as a podcast or read below. Hi. I’m Christine Thomas, Personal Life Coach for Women, absolutely devoted to our individual and collective thriving in this gorgeous, chaotic, rapidly changing, still stuck, prejudiced world. This podcast is part of my series offering nuggets of practical feminism and practical magic to support women in […]
Listen to this post as a podcast or read below. Have you ever had something so startling, so unwanted and unplanned, show up in your life that it left you unable to continue your life as usual, as it was? Perhaps it was something that left you at a loss as to how to navigate […]
Whether we make art with fiber, words, paint, clay, or food, whether we use our voices, our hands, or the forge – no matter the medium or the tools or the end product – may we all have room and resources for our creative joy! We live in a time of relentless distractions, responsibilities, and […]
Maybe it’s because loyalty is one of my essential values. Maybe it feels like a form of surrender and I’m just never good at that. It could be that a final decision makes me nervous since I much prefer to keep my options open. Or perhaps it’s because I’d rather not clean up after myself. […]
Last fall I was in the Fort Lauderdale airport returning home from a final memorial service for my brother. It had been another visit full of all kinds of emotions, mostly love, loss, sorrow, and the joy of connection with my brother’s circle of friends. I was a sea of feelings in the busy and […]
It’s been quite awhile since my last post, nearly a year, so if you’re wondering where I’ve been or even who I am, there’s good reason for that. My baby brother somehow developed a rare, incurable brain disease – Fronto Temporal Degeneration (FTD) – that progressed quite rapidly. He died this past summer, a little […]
Building our power-from-within in a soul stealing world When I ended up in the emergency room so many years ago, my heart was racing out of control. My life felt on one hand as if everything was moving ahead as planned, and on another as if I was being pushed along by forces completely out […]
We need vast oceans of self-compassion as we begin any exploration of thriving in our oh-so busy world. Because if we don’t start from deep non-judgment and compassion, we are yet again telling ourselves there’s something wrong with us. There are perfectly good reasons why we often end up feeling overwhelmed, unable to catch up, […]
Unable to breathe, choking and gasping, I woke up from a sound sleep, my heart racing, knowing I was about to die. I managed to nudge my honey and let him know I was pretty sure I was dying. I didn’t know why or how or what was going on – just that my heart […]