Listen to this as a podcast or read below. In the heat of late August, despite all of my good intentions, nearly every year there comes a time when I’m ready to surrender, to surrender to the heat, to the grasshoppers, to the weeds. Any of you gardeners feel this way? Sure, we love our […]
Listen to this as a podcast or read below. Ever have those days when your thoughts don’t even bother to complete themselves, when your brain feels like it’s spinning wildly out of control, when you’re not even sure whose thoughts are roaring inside your head? Or when you can feel you’re in a strong downward […]
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 […]