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Lead From the heART
There are times when our brains are the muscle that we need to strengthen and there are times when we need to trust our hearts to lead...
Dec 2, 20222 min read


Attitude of Gratitude: 6 Easy Ways to Cultivate More Gratitude
As Americans glide toward the Thanksgiving holiday, this is the perfect time of year to revisit the power of gratitude as something much...
Nov 17, 20223 min read


What It Takes: 3 Ways to Uncover Success With Greater Joy
I used to think that the only way to reach success was through struggle, pain, and sacrifice. I thought challenge was the only path to...
Oct 14, 20224 min read


Beginner's Mind: 5 Tips for REMEMBERING YOURS
The other day I was driving across the Bay Bridge into San Francisco to visit one of our heARTful Kid's sites and I was deep in thought...
Sep 29, 20223 min read


Texture of Tenacious
We each come into this world with a natural tenacity. As babies and children, we voraciously consume the world and our experience of it...
May 20, 20222 min read


Beautiful Oops
There's a kids book by Barney Saltzberg called Beautiful Oops and it's a game changer for art teachers or parents who want to instill the...
Feb 25, 20222 min read


ART= Arrange Reality Tastefully
My mission here at the Center for Conscious Creative Change is to inspire and empower you to connect to your creativity and to understand...
Jan 28, 20222 min read


The Year Ahead (+ Symbolic Forecasting)
Feeling the need to start planning for the year ahead? Successful planning starts with reflection. You've probably learned a lot this...
Dec 9, 20212 min read


What If?
Hypotheticals can be a slippery slope. A lot of 'what if's' can lead us down the path of fear, worry or unhelpful ruminations. Boy, don't...
Dec 3, 20212 min read


Gratitude Practice
It's easy to fixate on the problems around us, big and small. In fact, the human brain is wired for it. So, it does take some brain...
Nov 24, 20212 min read


Upgrade your mornings
Admittedly, I've never been a morning person so part of me questions how I-- a recovering night owl and recurring snooze button presser--...
Nov 11, 20213 min read


Peace By Piece
Have you ever felt like you're drowning in tasks? Of course you have. We're living in a culture where overachievement and round the clock...
Nov 3, 20214 min read


Owning Your Wins
I'm betting you do a lot and that you've accomplished more than you're giving yourself credit for. Social media creates mass imposter...
Oct 28, 20213 min read


Growth = Agility
Growth doesn't always look like steady forward momentum, especially when things change as rapidly as they have over the last few years....
Oct 6, 20211 min read


Where You Are
Have you ever wanted something so bad that you would have done almost anything to obtain it? On some level, we all know this feeling...
Oct 1, 20213 min read


Strengths-Based Learning: Literacy Labs
Our biggest challenges are often our biggest opportunities. Regardless of the objective or the skills we need to acquire, there are...
Sep 23, 20212 min read


What is Wonder?
If you've spent much time around children, it's easy to see that their experience of the world is often wonder. Curiosity and questions...
Sep 9, 20212 min read


Shift Your Perspective
Our experiences in life always come down to perspective. The beautiful thing about this is that perspective can always shift. Some might...
Sep 2, 20212 min read


Small Steps, Big Moves
What big life moves do you dream of making? Us humans seem to be brimming with hope and big dreams, whether we're willing to admit it or...
Aug 26, 20212 min read


The Right Kind of Discomfort
There was a time when I avoided discomfort at all costs. The shift came when the feeling of misery and helplessness set in; the toll of...
Aug 6, 20212 min read
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