The MyPeacein50 Blog

MyPeacein50 Series

A year ago, I began this series with a question.

Not a polished framework.
Not a strategic plan.
Not a clear destination.

Just a question.

What might happen if I approached this...

MyPeacein50 Series

Over the past year, this exploration of peace has led me to a deeper question: What kind of leadership is required in a complex, messy world?

Not an idealized world. Not a world w...

MyPeacein50 Series

Over the last year, I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about peace. Not as an abstract concept. Not as toxic positivity. Not as pretending everything is okay when it clearly ...

MyPeacein50 Series

I have to be honest with you. In so many areas of my life, I often have these sweeping visions that if I implement this one change, such as using a new planner, a perfectly execute...

Reconsidering the stories we carry — and discovering we still have authorship

As I turn fifty this year, I find myself asking questions I didn’t always have the space — or perhaps the readiness — ...

Reclaiming authenticity, expression, and the courage to be heard

For a long time, it was hard for me to find my voice. Or maybe more accurately, it was hard for me to trust it. I often wondered:

Why both sorrow and anger deserve room to breathe

There is so much to grieve right now. Some of the grief is personal. Some of it is collective. Some of it is hard to name.

Many of us are carrying l...

Why belonging is the foundation of safety, trust, and sustainable caring

Belonging is one of those experiences that is both deeply personal and profoundly universal. Most of us can remember a time wh...

Reclaiming imagination, curiosity, and lightness in a world that often asks us to grow up too quickly

Play has never come naturally to me. Even as a child, I often felt more like a little adult than ...

How tending living things can become a practice of presence, patience, and quiet repair

There is something about gardening that feels like prayer. Not the kind of prayer that requires particular word...

How the body learns safety through contact, presence, and gentle attention

When I worked at the Children’s Hospital, Healing Touch practitioners used to come to our All-Staff meetings. At first, I di...

What it means to build peace together, one nervous system at a time

So much of what we’ve talked about during this MyPeacein50 journey has been about how we can regulate our own nervous systems in ti...