Start anything, and you’re on fire. You’re planning, building, moving fast. The vision is clear and the energy is real. You’re finally doing the thing you’ve talked about for months, maybe years. Y...

As my teen prepares to enter university, we’ve spent countless hours reviewing her AP courses for the year. 

Five in total: Economics, Literature, Government, Statistics, and Art, plus a couple of ho...

 Most conversations about ADHD in the workplace still operate on the same tired spectrum: either it’s framed as a liability to be managed or a legal checkbox to be ticked.  

For years, corporate stra...

Some of us didn’t have childhoods.  

Not really.  

We had small windows of stillness in between chaos, long stretches of silence filled with the weight of adult responsibilities, and the invisible a...

Life has an uncanny way of throwing curveballs that derail our best-laid plans, often leaving us scrambling for control over the uncontrollable. The job opportunity that falls through, the relationshi...

Some discoveries feel like they were meant to happen, even if they come by accident.  

Mine began with a simple mistake - a recurring misspelling of my name as “Minerva.”  

Autocorrect has renamed m...

Modern life has a way of feeling like a relentless game show, except you’re not sure what you’re playing for, the rules keep changing, and the host is just a little too smug.  

Between juggling work ...

Coping, in psychological terms, refers to the strategies individuals use to manage stress or adversity. Early research on coping - pioneered by psychologists like Susan Folkman and Richard S. Lazarus ...

Imagine a woman falling through the cracks and becoming invisible as she struggled for many years to keep her head above the waterline of a busy life. 

That woman was me.

In my thirties or forties, ...

When my daughter was little, we used to play rock, paper, scissors, giggling as we negotiated who would do what or simply in competition. The rules are simple. 

Rock crushes scissors. 

Paper covers ...

My teenager has a habit of warning her friends before they meet me. “She’s a coach and a trauma therapist,” she’ll say, “Don’t even try to pretend. She’ll be able to smell the trauma and insecurity on...

Scaling a business is not for the faint of heart.  

It's exhilarating, sure, but also slightly terrifying when you realize it's not just your operations, revenue, or customer base that needs to grow ...