Last spring, I was sitting in Reecia’s Salon in Whitefish getting my hair colored when Angie, a cosmetologist teaching makeup to another...

Just Try to Force a Horse! I love working with horses! They are amazing mirrors to humans. I have shared various stories in the past...

Stress: It Doesn’t Have To Be “The New Normal” We all have stresses in our lives. However, when a situation feels like it’s too much to...

It's the most wonderful time of the year - right?! Yet, something happens at some point between Thanksgiving and New Year's that brings...

Have you ever started a project like learning a new software system and found yourself hours later still not quite skilled at using the...

I am an actor, and one summer I was lucky enough to play Nina, in the Stumptown Player’s production of Looking held at the O’Shaughnessy...

For the past couple weeks I have found myself searching for Hawaii vacations. The idea of a sandy beach and warm ocean water are...

Look I’ll say it. I made a mistake. I should have picked up the phone and told you we had a serious problem, but I didn’t. Even as the...

The Pleaser I have known for long time that I tend to make choices based on what other people want or think versus what I want or think....

The focus of my consulting and coaching work at thrive! has been helping leaders of teams that are underperforming, stuck in conflict, or...