What’s in the Water?
Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream
In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.
You are creative, resourceful, and whole—no, seriously!
You are creative, resourceful, and whole—no, seriously, you are! Coaches are trained—at least those who work under the umbrella of the International Coach Federation (ICF)—to hold that clients are creative, resourceful, and whole. The thing is, there's a huge...
Sailing through life is easier when you stop managing your experience
Too often we try to improve our human experience by managing it. We celebrate our highs and try to maximize them. We critique our lows and try to root them out. Though we do it in all innocence, all that managing and editorializing actually interferes with our inborn...
Are you tired of sitting on the fence with your head in the clouds?
I'm hearing from so many people these days that they are fed up and frustrated. Whether it's the state of the world, the state of their work, the state of their dining room tables, or their very souls, they long to make a change but seem not to know where or how to...
Cultivating fear won’t create safety
In the wake of the election, I see many well-intentioned people fomenting fear as a strategy for making themselves and others safe. A state of chronic fear depletes us mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Fear is not sustainable, and fomenting it won't...
When is a blooming flower wrong? Never!
At the Three Principles Global Community Conference in Los Angeles at the end of October, I was struck by an insight shared by Mara Gleason and Eirik Grunde Olsen, founders of One Solution. Mara and Eirik created a successful international conference in just five...
No confusion in the friendly fog bank
Confusion happens when we obsess about what we can't see and miss the fact that we can always see just enough for right now.
The miracle of the body
Today in yoga class I was struck for a few moments by the miracle of the body: by what a marvelous, phenomenal, generous gift I had been given. That what Mary Oliver refers to as the "soft animal of your body" in her poem, "Wild Geese," was given to me to inhabit so...
You might be doing way better than you think you are
I once heard in a 12 Step meeting, "I've been around these rooms for 35 years. The bad news is that every five years I got a new set of problems. The good news is that they were always higher quality problems." There's a lot of truth in this. We learn and grow, and...
Why is insight so elusive even when we know what we need?
Why is it that the very insights we are so clear about needing are the ones that prove so elusive? Could it be that when we pre-specify an insight we've actually stopped looking for new thought? A true insight is a fresh way of seeing. When we assume in advance that...