by jbird | Feb 12, 2020 | Newsletter
If someone had questioned my integrity several years ago, I would have said it’s time to enter the ring with some boxing gloves. But I’ve started to look at my old definition of integrity with fresh eyes and less defensiveness. What if we stopped looking...
by jbird | Jan 14, 2020 | Newsletter
Taking off my mask and learning to accept and live in the world as a human being–imperfect, flawed, and still on the path to wholeness–is the very thing that saved my life. I give you permission to take off your mask as well. We don’t have to be...
by jbird | Dec 10, 2019 | Newsletter
As part of my annual planning for 2020, I wrote down the lessons I learned this year. What lessons have you learned this year? I encourage you to take time to reflect and capture those lessons on paper. You may be surprised at all you can take with you into the new...
by jbird | Sep 10, 2019 | Newsletter
Man, change is hard. It can be excruciating. Overwhelming. Terrifying. It can feel like swimming upstream against a tidal wave. First you feel exhilarated. And then you feel lost. Like you don’t even know who you are anymore. And then you must decide again. And again....
by jbird | Jun 11, 2019 | Newsletter
The people who depend on you every day need you to be whole. They need you to be well. They don’t need for you to be a fraction of yourself; only the part(s) of yourself that you show to the world because they are “acceptable” or “rewarded” or...
by jbird | Jul 9, 2015 | Newsletter
When we run the rat race on someone else’s terms, it is easy to spin our wheels and miss our lives. We push ourselves to the point of breakdown or illness or both because we don’t know when to say stop. And we don’t know when to say stop because we have lost the...
