Category Archives: Community

The Profound Privilege of Suffering

Wow. I’m realizing in this moment that it has been almost two months since my last confession, er, post (raised Roman Catholic). By now many of you have figured out why I’ve been away: I’ve been growing two human beings in my belly. That’s right… after all that, we did it! Despite that fact that [...]

What Do You Do Anyway?

This month marks one year since the official launch of Restoring Power. Whoo hoo! For close to a decade before that, I was a business consultant & coach but after an opportunity to reevaluate my work, my life, my offer to the world, I went back to my roots and am now doing different work [...]

Patience.

Turns out patience is a tricky thing. Proving to be one of the hottest topics yet, we Salon ladies dove into vivid conversation about patience; what it means, how we work with it in our lives, and who else might live in it’s neighborhood. Beginning with defining the word, it was a little trickier than [...]

My Gorgeous Community

Our Restoring Power Holiday Party was a smashing success! It was full of amazing, incredible people (seriously, everyone kept saying to me, “Such great people at your party!”, to which I’d say, “I know! I’ve been telling you! I’m blessed!”), holiday music, an abundance of food+wine, and good cheer. And how about that harpist, eh? [...]

Flow, Baby. Flow.

Okay. Here’s the deal. I need to come clean with y’all. I’ve been keeping a secret. Yep. A secret. My wife and I are trying to have a baby. That is to say, I am trying to get pregnant. Phew. There, I said it. Gosh, dang that feels …well, mixed actually. Reasons I Didn’t Want [...]

Creating Your Outer Heart

This blog is written by guest blogger, Tara Mohr, writer, personal growth teacher and coach. I appreciate the term self-care, I really do. I understand the need for some word in our language that means something along these lines. But that phrase, self-care, has always turned me off. It reminds me of college, where all [...]

I must be a masochist. Or, why I love my work.

Let’s reflect, shall we? A while back I hosted my first Salon in over 6 years- the first Salon ever for Restoring Power. The topic was community and partnership. I opened, as I usually do, with about five to ten minutes of my recent and personal reflections on the topic then I put out a [...]