Martha Beck’s new book came out December 27th. I’m devouring it.  My friend Amy Pearson and I are so excited about this juicy tome of magical magicalness that we’re throwing a party in four dimensions. If you live in Portland, come join us in person!  If you live anywhere else, join us on the great […]

Lie down.  Take a nap. Buy yourself flowers, hot chocolate, lavender tea. Watch Little Women, Erin Brockovitch, Steel Magnolias, or any other good weeper. Use every little sample cosmetic you’ve been hoarding: slather yourself in the rich mask, the special eye cream, and the foot butter smear. Excuse yourself from that thing you’re supposed to […]

My client–I’ll call her Sandra–was not happy.  In fact, this normally gentle woman was pissed. She ticked down her list:  She does yoga.  She gets lots of sleep.  She meditates in nature.  She drinks green beverages until she’s radiant and glowing. So why was she still feeling so tired? Since I knew that Sandra takes […]

  There’s a word for me, an ugly word, a word that made it into the Wall Street Journal.  They called me a ‘flyjin.’  It’s a clever play on the Japanese word for foreigner, ‘gaijin,’ and it rather less playfully means that I’m a fly-by-night.  A fair-weather friend.  Not someone you can count on when […]

I’m going to confess something rather embarrassing.  I have a really hard time getting my daughter to kindergarten every morning. No, um… a REALLY hard time.  As in, sometimes we don’t make it. Oh, fine, the truth is that we are late more often than we are not.  And when we ARE on time, we […]