Frenchie Friday: I’ve Discovered the Secret to Everything
Find magic in the little things, and the big things you always expected will start to show up. This morning, while watering my little garden, I realized how completely unnecessary it was. I don’t need tulips. I don’t need to grow my own lettuce. I don’t need beautiful pots and organic soil. Sure, I could be working on creating my next program, doing […]
15 Ways to Live with More Ease
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. Recently, a nickname has been brought to my attention: The ease whisperer. If you know a little about me, you most likely know that I despise words like grind and pressure, and the term “pushing your way to success” holds no place in my vocabulary. I’ll leave those for men in power suits […]
100 Ways to Have a Love Affair with Life
When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don’t want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,or full of argument. […]
Why This is Your Year of Grand Adventures and Wild Freedom
Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. I’ll start tomorrow. I’ll wait until next year. I don’t know what I want. I don’t have enough money. I’m not smart enough. I don’t know how. Why these excuses can feel real, they are complete […]
Frenchie Friday: My Valentine’s Gift To You + 10 Reasons Why Every Woman Must Go to Paris
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. The saying goes: “Spend time with people whose lives you admire.” I love this motto and think that if we follow it, we […]
Overworked? Overwhelmed? Over It ? . . . Try This More Luxurious Approach to Life!
I just spent an hour on the phone with a very dear friend of mine. She is a successful entrepreneur; bright and beautiful; and has a mindset that allows her to be unstoppable. While she could achieve just about anything she put her mind to, there is a lot of resistance in her life because […]
Wine, Horses and Paris: The Adventure of a Lifetime!
Do you think you can have what you want? It’s an important question to answer, because if you doubt that you can, you never will. Let me share a story with you. Over a decade ago, I remember feeling extremely overwhelmed and stuck in life. I’d wake up and ask myself, “Is this it?” I was floundering, resisting, constantly searching for […]
Frenchie Friday: My Inner Frenchie Answers Your Holiday Questions
Two years ago, I was in Paris for Christmas. May I add that the energy was so different than the Christmas craze I had left behind in the States. Excitement, elegance and joie de vivre were palpable as I walked through the Marais. I returned home with a new sense of what the holidays should feel like. With just five […]
Are You Experiencing Growing Pains?
If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death. Moments of exponential faith and ecstatic thrills followed by feelings of pure grief and painful knots in one’s stomach . . . these are the feelings of growth. A few weeks […]
How to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Guests
As I type this, one of my dearest friends and her daughter are in a plane flying across the country to visit me in Durango. (That’s her and me in the photo from years ago.) I’ve spent the past few days preparing for her arrival, because she’s not just any guest, she’s special – we’ve […]