Authenticity Empowers

So, Dr. Heather, what do you do?   How to answer? I coach people to prevent and recover from burnout. I remove the blocks that prevent people from being who they want to be. I empower burned out people to rekindle their passion … Read More

Blurple? My Lollipop Moment

Red, blue, yellow, green, blurple. Blurple? I was sitting knee to knee with a friend and colleague, and we were doing an exercise about being present. This involved me saying colors, and her repeating them as I said them. The … Read More

The many faces of resistance

Resistance: the ability to prevent, oppose, withstand, or strive against an action or thing. In physics or chemistry, this property of opposing is harnessed to create change or act as a protector against change.  In an electrical circuit, a resistor … Read More

Confusion is a choice.

Confusion—a choice Power in clarity now Know yourself, your soul I’m calling it my “clarity haiku.” You may (or may not) have heard the phrase “confusion is a choice.” This phrase always irritated me a little bit, because I never … Read More

A sneaky little way to NOT own your power

This past weekend we participated in a demonstration of a Peruvian shamanic healing ritual.  I was keenly interested, as I’d never seen one before.   The shaman leading the ceremony explained the community-focused purpose of the ritual, recruited audience members to … Read More

Can you have control over abundance?

Just a short time ago I thought that abundance was something that just happened.  Sort of like luck (or the weather), abundance seemed like something that a person had no control over whatsoever.  You work hard, you struggle, and you … Read More

My Brain is a Border Collie

Twelve years ago this week I adopted my dog, Baxter.  At the shelter they warned me that because he is a Border Collie mix he would be a high energy dog.  I thought I understood what “high energy dog” meant, … Read More

Your inner willful child

It’s reality check time. If you’re like me (and if you’re reading this, odds are good that we’ve got some things in common) it’s possible—in fact, likely—that your life is being run by a willful child who might not have … Read More

Transformation on a dime

I don’t know about you, but I used to think that transformation was a big, long, DIFFICULT process. In fact, it can happen in an instant. Or in other words, the direction of your life can turn on a dime. … Read More