“Root down to rise up.”

If you practice yoga, you may have heard this common phrase a few times, as most yogis and many spiritual teachers find this to be a mantra, or instruction, for how to live one’s life. 

But, what does it really mean? And, why should you care?

I personally love this expression, and felt a deep resonance to it when

At the end of September, I made a commitment to myself. A promise, really. I decided that in order to get back to my writing on a regular basis that I would commit to writing 90 articles over 90 days, consecutively. 

As I am approaching Day #23, I decided to share my declaration with my community, as I wanted to ask for their input. 

I ap

What exactly is a promise? 

A promise is a declaration of a specific intention. It’s a commitment or vow to deliver something based on a set expectation. It’s a contract.

Even if that contract, or agreement, is with yourself. 

Yet, as we are constantly in motion, and find ourselves in the hustle and bustle of things, we often end up over

Crying is good for the soul.

It cleanses the body of a build-up of toxins, of suppressed emotions, and loosens all the gunk that gets stuck in our bodies.

We need to change our narrative around expressing the fullness of our feelings. For it is part of our nature to grieve, to cry tears of joy, to express beauty, and to connect with life

Depending on where you live, you may have been able to witness the solar eclipse we experienced earlier today, along with this new lunar cycle. I live in Austin, so you definitely could see aspects of it as it moved through.

 Things got dark, and you could see the orb around the sun. 

This particular solar eclipse, called the “Ring of Fir...

It’s been nearly a year since I said goodbye to my sweet, Payton. After a decade together, which was not nearly enough time, my sweet baby boy was called to cross the rainbow bridge. 

Due to an unexpected rupture of a cancer tumor in his spleen (I had no idea about), my world turned inside out in the matter of 24 hours. Without any warning

As a leader, how often do you check in within yourself and ask the tough questions? You know, the kind of questions that require brutal honesty. The ones that pull back the mask, dig deep into the layers, then excavate through the bullshit and noise to uncover your most profound truth.

My guess is … never, or not nearly enough.

Because I

Sometimes I feel like “burnout” is the ultimate business bingo word these days. It seems like it’s used as a description for everything, and I feel as if we have created a culture that’s actually crazy addicted to it. 

Addicted to the burnout, itself; and also being addicted to all the ways we “take the edge off,” as a result. 

We justify

“Won’t you be my neighbor?”

The iconic line said in every episode of the long-running children’s TV show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. This show, being my favorite as a kid and into my college years, ran for an amazing 33 seasons (from 1968–2001).

Believe it or not, I even scheduled my engineering classes around that 30-minute time slot,

Oh, how we live in a frenetic culture with it’s constant demands to wind and grind, burn and churn, and hustle for the muscle. 

We live on this perpetual hamster wheel, where we get up, slog through our mornings, go to work (even if just to our home offices), do a lot of busiwork (often that which has very little meaning), eat dinner, mayb