Chapter 14 in Breathing Room is all about reaching out. The idea here is that when we are isolated in life, a membrane forms around us that keeps us in our own little bubble. All kinds of crazy stuff can happen in this bubble, devoid of any outside input,...

We are officially halfway through our Breathing Room Blog Book Club with this post. If you're just now joining us, no worries, this is the kind of thing you can really jump right in on. Throughout this series, I'm going back through each chapter in Breathing Room, and...

Happy Monday, my friends! I hope your weekend was all that you needed it to be -- slow or full, quiet or adventurous, restful or playful. Mine was all of the above. Saturday, on the recommendation of my precious friend Kate, I took a field trip to St. Gregory's the...

It's Friday (!), and I'm just now getting our next book club blog post up. My apologies! I'm currently putting all the final touches on Brazen, which sort of took over everything else this week. But here I am, excited to be talking about chapter 11 together. The...

Chapter 10 is about making amends with ourselves so that we can experience more freedom, less shame. The majority of the chapter is a letter I wrote to myself, a letter of amends, that focuses on letting go of self-doubt, self-contempt, self-pity and holding on to --...