• My break up with social media

    My break up with social media

    In 2020 I began what I call my break up with social media. In 2021 there was a day when my break up with social media came down to clicking the delete buttons – if I could find them! I persevered, and I did find the right buttons. I pressed delete and exited from Facebook and Instagram for ethical and safety reasons: about women, children, and challenging the norm. Women For some time, I had listened to women of every age share how social media stir up emotions of anxiety, depression, overwhelm, low self-worth, comparison, not feeling good enough, loss of self-confidence, lack, a failure. Women I was coaching were…

  • The tug of war game with our inner child resisting our desire to share our story in a memoir

    Handle Your Resistance

    I could see the parts of me playing a tug-of-war in my writing mission. One wanted to keep me safe, loved and belonging - not interested in me risking the love of my mother in sharing my story as a memoir; and the other, the adult me, who had a vision that far outweighed the fear in me...