The other day, Rebecca commented to her husband KC that being a “Super Feeler” was exhausting, especially when you’re prone to negative emotions like anxiety. When Your Feelings Are Your FilterWhen you’re filtering everything through your feelings and you are

At a recent family dinner, Rebecca’s sister Jenny playfully “forced” everyone to make art.

Summer is ending but we did take time to explore its joys recently. Gioia is just back from her family place in New York State which was full of ferns, streams, waterfalls, and splashing trout, and gave her lots of wonderful creative inspiration to last her through the year to come.

Last month, we focused on how to tap into our intuition and trust ourselves.  But what happens if we have a gut instinct and we ignore it?  Or we follow our intuition but we make a mistake anyway?

Rebecca was ambivalent about a simple decision she had to make—to sign up for a training or not.  It was expensive but compelling.  Was it the right time?  Worth the cost?   Really necessary?  When she asked KC, her husband, for advice, he said, “Just trust your gut.”

Karinya, 15 yr-old with Cancer, Being Serenaded by a Florence and the Machine
We just ran across this moving video of Karinya Chen, a 15 year-old girl who was dying of bone cancer, being personally serenaded by her favorite band Florence and the Machine.  Sadly, this was almost 10 years ago.  Karinya died shortly after the video was made, but that doesn’t lessen how inspiring it is to watch her joy spark while Florence lovingly belts out “Dog Days Are Over”.

Where Are is the “You” Inside of You Body
Humor us for a moment.  Close your eyes right now (or turn your attention inward if you can’t safely close them at this moment) and, without overthinking it, see if you can locate where inside of yourself you experience “You”.  In other words, if you ask yourself “Where am ‘I’ inside of me?” what comes to mind and/or where do you feel that in your body?

Impact Investing
About 10 years ago Rebecca’s little sister Julia who’d been working in the world of finances decided to pursue a master’s degree in Impact Investing—investing into business that has positive social and environmental impact.  At the time, studying this subset of the financial markets was virtually unheard of and, for those who did know of it, it was considered at best risky, at worst, a losing proposition.  Regardless, rarely a profitable one.

Forget what you think you know, forgive, and love.
A friend of ours, Mark, dropped this little philosophical morsel into a conversation the other day.  We’ve been chewing on it since.  Although it seems to be so simple, there was something so profound and true to it.  However, those three things are probably the most challenging calls to action ever laid down.  And even if you wanted, how do you even do it?!

You may have already moved on from 2023, so why bother doing a “Year in Review”? Especially when the first thing that comes to mind might be either that “nothing happened” or “it was a horrible year!”