I've been home from Austria for a few days now, settling back into the familiar rhythm of work, family, laundry, and the seemingly endless number of things that require my attention. After two weeks away, there's plenty to catch up on, but I've been trying to hold on to a few observations from our travels before they get swallowed up by everyday life. Travel has a wonderful way of making the ordinary seem interesting again. Of course, there were the mountains, the scenery, the beautiful...

Making Room Isn't the Same as Having Room Last week, I left my corporate job. It was a decision I'd been working toward for a while, although perhaps not quite in the way I originally imagined. I liked the work itself. Coaching people through difficult seasons of their lives is something I care deeply about, and I had the opportunity to work with some truly wonderful humans. But the schedule had become increasingly difficult to reconcile with the rest of my life. Evenings and weekends spent...

Sometimes the view gets clearer when you step outside the system for a while. I have spent most of my professional life somewhere in the strange intersection between health, fitness, wellness and business. I have owned a gym. I have coached people privately. I have worked for large fitness and wellness companies. I have hired practitioners and instructors, referred people to other professionals, and spent a frankly ridiculous number of hours thinking about clients when I was technically not...