Resilience isn't just about bouncing back. (I know, I know. I say this all the time. But most of us weren’t taught this, so it’s harder to overcome our initial understanding of resilience.) Resilience is about proactively adapting and transforming, in a way that aligns with your goals and regenerates your energy.

Resilience is adaptability and transformation that is proactive and high-impact. It’s meant to be co-created in a regenerative, healthy way. It’s a multi-directional process.

One arm of my work is partnering with leaders to transform and train their team with my Resilient Teams program.

Are you ready to see your team communicate more effectively, build resilience, and tackle challenges with confidence? Leaders who have partnered with me report measurable shifts in their teams, including:

Resilience isn’t built in crisis—it’s cultivated daily so your team can thrive, no matter what comes next.

In a world of lots of noise and needs it can be hard to stay on top of, let alone ahead. My philosophy as a coach and leader is that you only need to stay "two steps ahead," so that you are prepared for changes rather than simply reacting when they arise. By pausing to take a step back and understand the broader landscape, you’re keeping your feet on the ground in the present while focusing an eye towards the future.

When you start feeling the urgency of a pivot, your first instinct might be to start looking and applying for jobs.

I get it. I actually think looking and applying for jobs can provide great clarity. When you’re intentional and embodied in applying for new jobs, you can really learn a lot about who you are and who you truly want to become.

This month, gratitude has been harder to hold—but I’m leaning into the practices that help me stay grounded. Gratitude doesn’t mean bypassing tough emotions or forcing toxic positivity. Instead, it’s about creating space for clarity and reflection. I’m grateful for clarity in my work and what I want to be putting out to others which right now is focused on cultivating slow working practices.

Learning how to navigate shifts in or a loss of your professional identity is a key resilience skill. Your career identity can be fluid, not fixed, so you can evolve in response to shifts in your needs, values, and goals as well as to adapt and transform in response to the environment (climate, country, community, and workplace).

My life’s purpose and focus just got even clearer this last week.

I hope you also feel that.

If not, I want to offer you some resources this month.

One of my strengths is patterns and trends - individuals and groups. I’ll be honest. I don’t hold a lot of hopeful optimism. What I do hold is clarity. Having built a relationship with my grief over these last years always invites me into clarity.

Holding clarity right now feels powerful. Clarity is actionable and offers purpose.

It’s election day in the US.

At this moment, we don’t know the outcome of this election. What we do know is that it has been rife with pisspoor political leadership, has created even more divisive turbulence, and comes with dire consequences.

I want to take this moment to truly ground us—in Earth, in community, and in the shared purpose that binds me and you. As we move forward, I feel in my core a call for embodied action—actions that come from a place of integrity, resilience, and radical care for each other and the world we’re part of.

By embracing slow working, you can take embodied action.

I have a lot of client conversations that start with a version of: “I have to leave my job/career. I can’t take it anymore.”

Before you rage quit, shift into slow first.

Slow is how you get clarity on the decision and you see the bridge you need to build through clear embodied action.

There’s great urgency in the world. Both from the tedious to-dos and from the really critical social issues. To practice slow working, we connect to the work that matters in a slowed down, intentional, and purposeful way. We notice our overing patterns of anxiety and learn to soothe the mind and body in order to regenerate resilience.

Folks talk to me about a tension between slow working and their high-achieving goals, all the good they want to do. I get that. I want both, too.

Okay, to be fair, slow working is not the new trend. YET.

In the words of our favorite San Francisco bicycle shop, Scenic Routes: “Slow is Forever.”

Slow is forever in part because you can’t keep rushing around and expect that’s going to be sustainable or go well long-term.

We need to learn how to hold the duality of loving nature while also mourning its transformation.

The word, Solastalgia, coined almost a decade ago, reflects what many of us feel for the first real time experience of as we witness devastating climate-changed weather. 

“Solastalgia is the distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment.”