A listening ear

Anyone who knows me well knows I tend to extract lessons from most things. It’s probably annoying sometimes, but overall I’m proud of this trait and what it has brought into my life and subsequently to others. Hurricane Sandy, which I’m sure much of...

Listen up

One of my favorite things about training to be a life coach was the concentration on learning to be a better listener. It helped make me a stronger coach, but also interviewer and writer, not to mention how it has brought richness to my personal relationships. A...

Hearing through the noise

I had a cluster of moments over the course of a week that pointed me to the importance of being “heard” and of being the one doing the “hearing.” Everything from literature I was reading (Vivian Gornick) to television  I was watching (Law and...

A movement

I am about 200 pages into Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth. What a profound book. Oprah’s vision has made it a movement. My favorite passage today: So you may want to ask yourself the question: What are the things that upset and disturb me? If small things have...