My Peace in 50
My Peace in 50 is a weekly blog exploring small, evidence-based practices to reclaim peace, presence, and purpose—one week at a time. Rooted in nervous system care, personal reflection, and embodied healing, each post offers insight, encouragement, and a gentle invitation to reconnect with what matters most.
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What Happens When You Walk Without Trying to Get Anywhere
 Hi everyone,
This week’s blog explores one of the simplest—and most powerful—practices for nervous system regulation: walking meditation.
Not walking to exercise.Not walking to clear your inbox in your head.Not walking to achieve anything at all.
Just walking.
Walking meditation is the practice ...
Apr 06, 2026
#nervoussystemregulation
#peaceaspower
#protectingyourpeace
#traumainformedleadership
#walkingmeditation
Growth Doesn't Mean You Should be Thankful for the Trauma
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog explores a concept that can be both comforting and complicated: post-traumatic growth.
When I first encountered this idea, part of me resisted it. Because trauma is not something to romanticize. It hurts. It disrupts. It changes us in ways we never asked for.
But pos...
Mar 30, 2026
#nervoussystemhealing
#peaceaspower
#posttraumaticgrowth
#protectingyourpeace
#traumainformedleadership
When Perfectionism Stops Protecting - and Starts Exhausting
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog is about perfectionism—the kind that looks like competence from the outside, but feels like constant pressure from within.
Recently, my aunt told a story about me at three years old, sitting on the stairs with a box of animal crackers. I carefully opened the box, too...
Mar 23, 2026
#lettinggoofperfectionism
#nervoussystemhealing
#peaceaspower
#protectingyourpeace
#traumainformedleadership
When Your Nervous System Freezes - and How to Help it Move Again
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog is one of the most personal I’ve written in a while.
For much of my life, I believed there was something wrong with me because I froze in moments of acute stress. My mind would go blank. Later, the clarity would come—but not when I needed it most.
I now understand so...
Mar 16, 2026
#leadershipandwellbeing
#nervoussystemregulation
#peaceaspower
#protectingyourpeace
#traumainformedleadership
Energetic Boundaries and Creating Safety Without Certainty
Hi friends,
I’ve spent years teaching and writing about boundaries—especially in leadership. Clear, compassionate boundaries still matter deeply to me, and they always will.
But this week’s blog explores a different layer of boundary work—one that often comes before words, policies, or conversati...
Feb 09, 2026
#embodiedleadership
#energeticboundaries
#nervoussystemcare
#peaceaspower
#sustainablecare
#traumainformedleadership
Embodying Compassion Through Affirmation
 Hi friend,
Last week, we explored how sound and music can bring us back to ourselves.This week, we’re turning inward — toward the way we talk to ourselves.
In this new blog, I share how affirmations can become embodied practices that:
Gently rewire our nervous system
Shift us from criticism to ...
Dec 08, 2025
#affirmationpractice
#mypeacein50
#nervoussystemcare
#peaceaspower
#selfcompassion
#traumainformedleadership
Healing Through Music and Sound
Hi friend,
This week’s blog is one of my favorites — a heartfelt reflection on music as medicine.
From 90s grunge (hello Pearl Jam) to the quiet hums that steady us, music shapes our nervous system, our memories, and our sense of self. It’s not just entertainment — it’s regulation, release, and r...
Dec 01, 2025
#musictherapy
#mypeacein50
#nervoussystemcare
#peaceaspower
#soundhealing
#traumainformedleadership
Nature's Nervous System
Hi friend,
This week’s blog explores one of the most accessible nervous system tools we have: nature.
After a difficult few weeks supporting my mom as she recovers from a broken hip, I found myself pulled into the eucalyptus forest near my childhood home. What I felt there wasn’t just nostalgia —...
Nov 24, 2025
#forestbathing
#groundingpractice
#mindfulwalking
#mypeacein50
#nervoussystemcare
#peaceaspower
#traumainformedleadership
Gratitude that Doesn't Ignore Reality
Hi friend,
This week’s blog is an invitation to practice gratitude without pretending everything is okay.
Not the Pinterest version.Not toxic positivity.Just honest gratitude — the kind that can sit beside grief, burnout, and uncertainty, and still help us notice what’s soft, beautiful, or sustai...
Nov 17, 2025
#gratitudepractice
#mindfulleadership
#mypeacein50
#nervoussystemcare
#peaceaspower
#slowliving
#traumainformedleadership
What Happens When We Let Wonder In
Hi friend,
This week’s practice is one I didn’t expect to write — especially not during grief.
But awe surprised me. And maybe it will for you too.
Last week, I was in New York City for my brother’s memorial service — a trip threaded with sorrow, tenderness, and the kind of quiet that settles in ...
Nov 10, 2025
#aweandwonder
#griefandhealing
#mindfulliving
#mypeacein50
#nervoussystemcare
#peaceaspower
#traumainformedleadership
Tuning Into Purpose in a Loud, Divided World
Hi Friend,
This week on MyPeacein50 we’re exploring purpose as a compass. In a divided, noisy world, purpose doesn’t quiet the storm—but it helps us stay oriented inside it.
When I drift from boundaries, I drift from purpose. That’s when exhaustion sets in. But when I reconnect to rituals—like th...
Nov 03, 2025
#boundaries
#leadershippurpose
#leadershipwellbeing
#mypeacein50
#peaceaspower
#protectingyourpeace
#traumainformedleadership
Small Rituals, Big Self-Respect
Hi Friend,
This week on MyPeacein50 we’re talking about rituals as self-respect—tiny repeatable acts that tell your nervous system, “I matter.”
Self-esteem says, I feel good about me. Self-respect says, I treat me with dignity. Rituals bridge the gap. They transform values into verbs: protecting ...
Oct 27, 2025
#boundaries
#leadershipwellbeing
#mypeacein50
#peaceaspower
#protectingyourpeace
#selfrespect
#traumainformedleadership
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