Jul 30, 2024 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Magic, Magick, Radical Self-Love
I wonder if fireflies know they’re special. One of my favoritest things about growing up in the suburbs of Chicago was the fireflies. I loved watching them light up my front yard and chasing them down to catch them in my hands. It felt like magick. But my man, who...
Jun 30, 2022 | Magic, Radical Self-Love
Is it okay that I own that I’m sad today? Someone I care about deeply is going through dark and difficult times. A lifetime of abuse and neglect has finally caught up with them in a shitstorm of epic proportions and, not seeing a way through, they’ve essentially given...
May 12, 2022 | Magic, Radical Self-Love
We’re reading My Grandmother’s Hands as part of a leadership group I run. It is a brilliant and breathtaking book about trauma… specifically racialized trauma and the pathway to mending hearts and bodies. I emphasize the last part because, as Resmaa Menakem teaches...
Apr 28, 2022 | Courage, Expression, Freedom, Magic
When the doctors told me I would never be more than 60-80% of the human I was before the robberies and my PTSD, I was devastated. Worse, I believed them. (So did Joe.) And we made plans to compensate for this “lack”. ❌ Deb would never work.❌ Deb would never function...
Apr 14, 2022 | Courage, Expression, Freedom, Magic
There is a flow or rhythm to everything that we do. And it used to be that business and creation was all about timetables and schedules and S.M.A.R.T. goals and all of that jazz. (Maybe for you it still is!) But if it’s not and you’re feeling like...
Apr 7, 2022 | Courage, Freedom, Magic
Who told you that you’re not allowed to be your priority? And who benefits from your belief that this rule is true? I think that second question is the most important. (Wish I could take credit, but it was my friend Sarah Paikai who taught me to ask it.) Really… go...
