Summer can feel so precious, signaling time to rest and find ease. But it may also usher in a seemingly-endless number of things to do that compete with the desire to simply slow down. It’s a vicious cycle, but there are resources, habits, and mindsets you can use to cultivate more balance and less burnout. This article includes the most powerful tools that have helped me do just that.

About seven years ago I started my own facilitation business and, in honor of that anniversary, I want to celebrate by sharing a few of my favorite learnings with the people who have supported me along the way. I hope you’ll find these insights and takeaways helpful whether you’re running your own business, or are simply navigating the ebbs and flows of life and work.

A few months ago, I shared an honest account of how I got into and managed to walk away from burnout. I never imagined that sharing my story would reach 20K+ people and receive so many replies. In response to all the emails and messages, I put together a list of suggestions and resources for beating burnout. Take what works and leave the rest!

I quit social media 3.5 years ago and am opening up about the initial change and impact on my brain, some longer-term effects, and practices for eliminating or reducing the use of social media in your own life.

How did a self-care promoting, work-life-balance advocate wake up one day and realize that burnout had gripped my life? And what could I do to escape the cycle and find a new, more sustainable way of being? This is the story of my “burnout intervention” and how I’ve spent the last year of my life making a concerted effort to break free from the toxic cycle.

My remedy for the summer scaries is an entire shift in how we perceive change and letting go. Here, I share my tips and mantras for embracing closure in order to harness the power in choosing what to pay attention to and how to invest our time.

The return-to-office conversation has been top of mind for many as more and more companies call employees back to work in person. Rather than simply telling people to return to the office without any structure or intention, let’s instead think about the best way to accomplish the work to be done. Here’s a workshop format for team leaders and managers who want to handle this next chapter with intention.

Now, more than ever, we have an opportunity to act and work differently, creating new ways forward that are authentic and put people first (rather than profits). But doing so can be extremely challenging in environments where being heart centered isn’t easy. Here are 4 steps for cultivating this in your own life and work.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at 6 “secrets” I’ve cultivated over the past 7 years working for myself as a facilitator and strategic workshop leader. They’ll help you manage your day-to-day life in a way that’s organized, enjoyable and sustainable.

Have you ever edited an email or text message before hitting “send” in an effort to trim down your exclamation point use? Most of us have. Where did our obsession with exclamation-point censorship come from, and why are we wasting precious headspace on editing the emotion out of out of our emails? I think it’s time to rewrite the script.

If data shows that having fun is critical to our health and wellbeing – and it does – why do we often relegate it to weekends, special occasions and sporadic occurrences Maybe it’s because play time is in constant competition with productivity? It’s time to flip the script on having fun. Here’s why you should make more time for play, along with three easy steps for putting intention into action. I promise the benefits will ripple across the different areas of your personal and professional life.

Are you committed to constant discovery? Do you like learning about yourself and the world around you? Is curiosity something hardwired within you, or something you aim to cultivate more of? If so, I’ve got a few amazing resources to share that will speak to anyone who loves to reimagine what it means to live and thrive in this world.

Women aren’t taught to pat ourselves on the back or celebrate our wins, and that goes hand-in-hand with feeling confident at our jobs. It’s time to retire this mode of thinking! These are my 8 tips for developing a confidence-building practice in your own life.

With a new season comes a new list of my recommended reading! In this installment of titles that traverse my personal and professional interests, you’ll find everything from leadership and facilitation resources, to a rhyming little pig who jumps into a muddy little puddle.

If you’re feeling like it’s time to shift your career, it might be helpful to do an audit to shed light on what fills you up, the parts that you could take or leave, and the parts that feel downright dreadful. To guide the journey, consider these questions to take stock of how you spend your time and how it makes you feel.

I’ve made it my mission to bring more ease into more areas of my life this year. I’ve found that it’s difficult to meet challenges with ease at first, but once you get into the rhythm the attitude is contagious and pays dividends, both personally and professionally. Here’s what I’ve been practicing every day.

Does growth create opportunity? Absolutely. But is it the best and only way to run a business? Absolutely not. Here’s why I intentionally choose solopreneurship year after year.

I’m a big fan of balancing work and play, professional and personal. These “opposing” dimensions have quite a bit of overlap in the Venn diagram of life. The things we do to become more skilled in our careers usually blend into the ways we navigate life outside of work. And the curiosities we explore show up in unexpected ways within our professional interactions. These books cover that and more.

This reading list is for folks who want to forge deeper connections with the people in their lives, manage personal and professional time differently, and learn about tools that can expand our emotional vocabularies and redefine what it means to rest and relax. I’d be surprised if you don’t experience the positive impacts of these books and their tools across every sphere of your life, from personal to professional, and beyond.

Workshop methods that can be applied to meetings so we can be more intentional about how the diverse voices in the room are heard and represented.