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Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, As I write, an online auction is running to clear out our basement and garage of three decades of family life. My feelings throughout our transition process (a phrase that sounds so well put together and is...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, It’s risky to talk about greed. Few folks want to go there. However, I love you too much to let a little fear and discomfort stand in the way. Most often we think of greed in terms of money. A lyric from the...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, Until recently, I didn’t know there was such a thing as saltwater grief. But Patty Lennon, my friend, mentor, and colleague, shared her experience of it, and my body response with full on spontaneous tears...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, It’s all good. This is what a friend frequently said after we had deep, true, uncomfortable conversations. It’s all good. The sentence softened surprise sore spots and popped us back to our gentle happy...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello dear friends, happy Summer! Recently, a friend asked me if I would use another word instead of somatic when talking about Somatic Finance. She isn’t the first person to push back against the word as complex, or...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my beautiful friend, Before you answer, let’s clarify this — a Journey and a Quest aren’t the same. A coaching colleague put it this way: A Journey takes us along a path to a specific goal or outcome. A Quest...

Listen to Gayle reading blog aloud. Hello my friend, Take a breath. My question may have stirred up some stuff. It is not my intention to cause you discomfort. At least since January, most of us have been on pins and needles, saturated in fear, confusion,...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello, my friend. Let’s play. Last week I watched a lively conversation between authors Anne Lamott and Glennon Doyle. They were discussing Anne’s new book, Dusk Night Dawn: On Revival and Courage. The writing could not be...

Listen to Gayle reading this blog “Perhaps it requires of you precisely this existential anxiety in order to begin. Precisely these days of transition are perhaps the period when everything in you is working.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet...