Chenin Madden

I think you can start to undo, or at least let go of, the past. It's a bit like walking through a house full of furniture and belongings. You can begin to declutter, letting things go one piece at a time. Or, if you're ready, you can fill a truck and ask someone else to take it all away. You don't want or need it anymore. You'd rather have the space filled only with the essentials. We spend so much of our lives accumulating more. More possessions, more commitments, more expectations, when...

A little reminder that sometimes the most powerful conversations happen when we stop focusing on what's gone wrong and start noticing what's already strong. After some miscommunication at school that left our daughter and her friend feeling a bit 💩, I pulled out Lucy Hone's strengths cards. The girls identified their individual strengths, then discovered the strengths they shared. Together, they arranged those shared strengths into the shape of a heart. It shifted the conversation...

"If only..." It's a thought most of us have had at some point. If only I had taken that opportunity. If only I had left sooner. If only I had spoken up. If only I had believed in myself. Regret has a way of convincing us that life would have been better if we had made different choices. But the truth is, we can never know. Every decision we make changes the direction of our lives. If one event had unfolded differently, you may have experienced different opportunities, different relationships,...