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Ever have one of those days where you’re utterly drained, your to-do list feels endless, and everything seems to be moving a million miles an hour?

It’s the first day of the year. A quiet day, maybe. A time when we often look ahead.
We won’t tell you to reinvent yourself or become a new person.
Instead, we’ll gently remind you of what’s already there.

We hear it all the time. We say it all the time. “I can’t.” But have you ever stopped to think about which kind of “can’t” you’re actually saying? Or hearing?

You know that feeling when a memory suddenly feels lighter, or a worry seems to lose its grip? Often, that shift isn’t random. It’s you changing the subconscious “settings” of your thoughts. In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), these settings are called submodalities.

There is a story I love, about a mother and her neighbor.
The neighbor, who had less, would often come to borrow small things—a little rice, some oil. The mother always gave gladly.

The news around Jeffrey Epstein and his circle hits a deep place. Disgust. Anger. A raw sense of wrong. It’s easy, and perhaps right, to put them in a box marked “evil” and look away.

In this Family Constellations exercise we can use floor markers to explore systemic family dynamics.

In the journey of personal growth, we’re often taught to see life as a series of tests to pass, goals to hit, and outcomes to achieve.

Attending the NLP Marin alumni gathering at Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg has been such a profound experience.

We all reach a point where we need to find our own voice, our own way, our own self. But how we go about it makes all the difference