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I Am Apparently a Healthcare Policy Changer. You’re Welcome.

If it feels like everything is louder, sharper, and more polarized right now—you’re not imagining it. In recent conversations, trainings, and messages, I keep hearing a version of the same question: “What can we actually do to lower the heat?” It’s an important question. And the good news is this: lowering the temperature isn’t just

When You Think You’re Hot Stuff and the Universe Laughs Picture this: Two TEDx talks under my belt. Both went viral. I’m basically floating on cloud nine, maybe cloud ten. I’m checking my view counts like a teenager checking Instagram likes. Life is good. I’m basically the Tony Robbins of mediation, right? Wrong. My phone

Part 3 of “What’s Wrong with Being Wrong” “What day is it?” “Saturday,” Leland told his mom. Brief pause. Then: “Is it Saturday all day?” We both had to bite our lips to keep from chuckling right there on the phone. Not because we were laughing at her—heck no. Rather, she delighted us. You see,

Part 2 of “What’s Wrong with Being Wrong” Remember my tomato planting argument with Leland? The one where I was absolutely, completely, 100% certain we’d planted in May, only to be proven wrong by a timestamped photo from April 18th? Well, that ridiculous ten-minute battle over garden timing taught me something goes way beyond horticulture.

Last week, Leland and I got into one of those stupid arguments that married couples have. We were debating when we’d planted our tomatoes last spring. I was dead certain it was the first week of May. He swore up and down it was mid-April. For ten solid minutes, we went at it. I’m pulling

Yesterday, my husband Leland and I called his elderly mom for our Sunday check-in. When she answered, her voice had that unmistakable groggy quality that immediately told us we’d interrupted a nap. Leland, ever considerate, asked if he’d woken her up. “Oh no, no,” she said quickly, “I was just resting my eyes. You didn’t