• Health-n-Wellness

    The Benefits of Therapy

    I’ve been working with an incredible leadership coach for about a year and a half. She has helped me immensely with how to stop myself from filling up my life with work. Before I started working with her, I was routinely working up until 10pm or 10:30pm at night. I was exhausted and utterly impatient with my husband and children. She helped me learn how to put self-care habits in place but also how to better prioritize what I take on in my work and life, so I have more time and space to focus on those things.    From my work with her, I knew that I also wanted to … Read More

  • Being the Change

    The Most Destructive Pattern of Behavior of Our Time

    This quote/concept by Dhakshy Sooriyakumaran hits right in the gut and is such a powerful lens through which I need to analyze my actions and choices. 
    I strive to learn as much as I can about race, gender, class, and oppression, and yet it’s much, much harder to then translate those ideas into giving up space, power, platform, reputation, or position. 
    We are urgently working to bring more diverse voices around the table within our organization, which I think is at least a step in the right direction toward addressing this pattern. 
  • Being the Change

    Our Children Are Watching

    “Our kids are going to ask us, ‘When you had the chance to do something in 2018 when they were talking about walls and Muslim bans and the press is the enemy of the people, what did you guys do?’ And we’re going to tell them that we and the 28 million of Texas helped this country get back on track and in the right direction.” -Beto O’Rourke

    It feels so, so good to have concrete actions within my control to help undo the madness Trump has caused to descend upon our country. The Beto campaign makes it really easy to volunteer. This past Friday we hosted a debate watch
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