I’ve been carrying an enormous amount of grief in secret for months. The second week of January this year, a couple days into the Los Angeles fires, the power went out in my mother in law’s house a few blocks from us. She fell and broke her shoulder. She had other complications for which she refused treatment. By the end of January she was in hospice. She died last week, and we buried her last Thursday, the day after my webinar. She was the mother to me that my own mother never was. And if you knew her, like all … Continue reading »

Today’s homework is coffee on Rodeo Drive There’s a back story to this homework. Let me explain… Here is the wild, weird, and totally true story behind my move (with my husband) from Long Beach to Los Angeles: A couple months ago I was chatting with a coach friend, and I asked him to ask his ‘spiritual guides’ what their message to me was about up-leveling my business. The message was “hang out in a coffee shop on Rodeo Drive.” I thought, “I love that idea! But there’s no freaking way I’m driving 2 hours through traffic for a cup … Continue reading »

In 2012, after yet another heartbreak (45 years of romantic failures, folks), I was so lonely and despairing that I made plans for my own suicide. I wrote a note, bought a book on how to do it, hired an attorney to help me create my will, and I set a date. Continue reading »