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It’s the second week of March and I am sitting at my desk in front of the window on the second floor of my townhouse, taking in the...

Oooooweeee! It’s been a CRUNCHY winter so far! Where I live? SO. MUCH. SNOW. And the sound of it under my winter boots, the iced-locked...

I graduated high school in 1985. 40 (yes, 40!) years ago. I’ve tried to recall what 18-year-old Payton thought her future would look like...

It's been just over a week since I landed back at home from hosting my retreat at La Anita Rainforest Ranch in Northern Costa Rica. I'm...

I’ve been riding the waves lately. But not in the way I used to. For much of my life, I’ve been the person on the heaving boat, hurled...

I’ve been thinking a lot about self-compassion lately and have come to the realization that for most of my life, I’ve avoided it. Why?...

A dear co-facilitator and friend gave me a card at a recent retreat. It says: Fill your lungs up with life and repeat after me: I am...

My son wakes up at either 2am, 4am or both every night. Each time I guide him back to his bed and tuck him in. He is up again at 6am and...

Perfectionist. When I call this word to mind, my body tightens up.  When I say it, I enunciate every syllable. I stand straighter and my...

I have always been a lover of words. Stories, poems, lyrics…the power of words has been visceral for me at times in my life. I remember a...

Detail from my recent "snake collage", created on retreat. Change is such a multi-level experience. I thought I’d rolled around enough in...

This weekend, after a period of intensity in my life, I felt some spaciousness. I moved, I danced. I found myself in the present moment....

The August air is starting to feel a little cooler. The summer light and shadows have shifted ever-so-slightly. I saw a single,...

Beautiful souls, It’s been a minute! It’s been a second! It’s also been what feels like an eternity. It’s not just a case of time rushing...

I have been residing part-time in a log cabin built in 1870 since just before Covid. I say part-time but it might be three-quarters. Then...

Author Glennon Doyle said it. “We can do hard things.” Powerful. So powerful, this phrase has turned into a well-known mantra and a...

It’s February and I am lucky enough to be sitting in the living room of Sol y Luna villa. There is a warm breeze floating through the...

It’s been a long 2023 so far at 16 days in! Who’s else is feeling that? When I say long, I mean for me, different themes and energies are...

It’s December 15th and I am starting to realize that Christmas IS coming. I write this from a villa 20 minutes from Playa Del Carmen,...

Well, here I am! I’m at the beginning of my blog-writing journey from the space of my new business, Expand Beyond Recovery. We’re...