Alef Bytes
Life happens in little bytes.Â
Learn to love the in betweens.
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IÂ always start my Zoom classes with a song.
Not as a ritual for ritual’s sake, but because a song shifts the nervous system faster than words ever co...
Way back in 2007, I published a novel titled Invisible Me.
It was story written from the perspective of Dini, a girl with selective mutism.
Selective ...
There’s a fear I see come up every single year around Ignite.
People don’t usually say it out loud, but it’s there underneath the questions so many o...
I really dislike the promoting and selling part of my work Heather.
It forces me to pretend to be an extrovert. To engage. To be visible. When really...
I was genuinely moved this week watching how many men confidently and happily shared the Ignite flyer on WhatsApp. Ignite opens a conversation many pe...
Its weird selling Ignite again every year.Â
Because it makes me question myself.Â
I vacillate between wondering whether my emails about it are repet...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about worth.
Not the kind we assign numbers to.
But the kind that shows up in what we're willing to invest in, stay wi...
It’s one of the questions I get asked most every time registration opens.
After seven cohorts I still don’t think there’s a single right answer.
Bec...
As I sat at the menorah last night, I pondered the question that arises in me every year at this time.Â
I know the conversation you're thinking about Kindred.Â
The one you've been dreading having with your teen.*
The one about the seasons, cycles, bird...
I’m in a season.
One of those strange, special ones where life turns itself inside out without waiting for my opinions or approval. A season where ev...
Of being too much?
Of being unreasonable?
Emotional?
Irrational?
Unmanageable?
If you’re a woman reading this, my guess is that at some point in ...