December 9th, 2021 by Kelly Kienzle
I was cruising through the summer preparing for my first in-person race in 2 years, scheduled for early November. I felt an annoying pain in my left hamstring that I had successfully ignored for the previous 3 months and I was pretty impressed by my toughness…
November 12th, 2021 by Kelly Kienzle
We all feel the burnout. We all sense our energy dropping. The bars of our gas gauge are dwindling faster than a cell phone in the desert. We are surrounded by negativity and struggle, such as political finger-pointing and systemic inequity. While these struggles are very…
October 20th, 2021 by Kelly Kienzle
I don’t like the phrase, “self-care.” Self-care sounds indulgent, pampered, lazy, and literally selfish. The phrase “self-care” makes me think of a privileged life and pedicures. And yet that is not at all how I regard the ways in which I take care of myself. I…
April 27th, 2021 by Kelly Kienzle
This month’s article is not about how we could work part-time at the office. Instead, I will talk about our inner work sometimes needing a part-time schedule. Specifically, how I want to shift to part-time work on myself and demand less of myself, when I need it.…
February 3rd, 2021 by Kelly Kienzle
Walt Whitman wrote this line 165 years ago, yet it contains present-day advice on how to create variety out of the boredom and perseverance out of the strain of the pandemic. Whitman wrote (and Dylan elaborated on it in a song last year) about how he…
September 24th, 2020 by Kelly Kienzle
I had posted more than 80 blogs over the course of 9 years without (much) fail every month. Then COVID hit and I was suddenly and wholly unable to write. I could not pin down my emotions from one day to the next. My actions in and reactions…
April 21st, 2020 by Kelly Kienzle
The Letting Go I have been rushing down a twisting river and the scenery has been changing daily and sometimes hourly. As the pandemic gained strength, I tried to understand how it would affect me. I tried to mentally grasp its size. I tried to see what benefits it…
January 31st, 2020 by Kelly Kienzle
“We tend to see ourselves as our limitations, instead of our potential.” I heard this comment recently and was struck by how true it is. When faced with a challenge, how often do we ask, “How am I unprepared or unsuited to overcome this challenge?” “What don’t I…
December 31st, 2019 by Kelly Kienzle
Forgiveness. How about if we close out 2019 with forgiveness? Forgiveness washes away the hurt, anger and frustration we feel. Forgiveness is a way of rising above what has happened to us. Forgiveness is how we show we are greater and stronger than the roadblocks in our lives. Forgiveness is…
October 24th, 2019 by Kelly Kienzle
Do you remember this photo from 1990? Do you see our “pale blue dot”? Look closely in the center, a bit to the right. This is a photograph taken of the Earth as the Voyager left it behind to explore our solar system. This photo helps me…
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