Brooke Snow

Hi Reader - We adopted two kittens this summer. And within the first hour of bringing them home, we lost them! We made a comfortable place for them in our bathroom, and after making sure they were okay, we closed the door and left. 30 minutes later, we went to check on them, and they were gone!!! They were nowhere to be found! I was completely baffled. How in the world could we lose kittens in a small closed room with no furniture?! It was then that I spotted the gap under the door. Years...

Hi Reader - Recently, in a client coaching session I asked the golden question. “What do you deeply want?” Her reply? “I just want harmony in my relationships”. Have you ever wished for this too? HARMONYBecause I’m a musician, my heart heard this desire voiced from a musical standpoint. The musical definition of harmony may be slightly different than the way we often use this term in regular life. Harmony in music happens when two different notes are played at the same time. They are in a...

Hi Reader - Yesterday's yoga class taught me a lot. I showed up to a class with a teacher I had never had before. From the moment she pushed play on her playlist, my body braced. Rap music. For yoga. I don’t have a problem with rap music if I’m having a dance party in the kitchen… But for yoga? I really want to experience calm. Then the heavy rock music came. For 30 minutes I practiced non-judgment. I played the role of the observer. I noticed that I was irritated and told myself it was okay...

Hi Reader - In 1991, my Dad bet me $100 that I couldn’t go one year without watching T.V. He was well known for his “motivational bets”. Back then, no TV meant I gave up a few basic TV channels and traded them for the analog lifestyle of the 90s. The first week was hard, and then I basically forgot the TV existed. When the year was up, I got my $100, and then my Dad renewed the bet again every year after that. By the time I graduated from high school eight years later, I was $800 richer and...

Hi Reader - I started reading a newly released “bestseller” yesterday. Partway through Chapter One, I got so mad that I wanted to throw my Kindle across the room. (If I had been reading a paperback, I would have done so with no regret.) The message of the book isn’t what upset me. Instead, what triggered me was that I could tell the book was written by AI. I don’t mind reading AI when I’m conversing with AI, but I don’t want to read AI when I am expecting a real human. Last week, I opened an...

Hi Reader - In 2023, I was going through extreme trauma. To say I was in my head a lot is an understatement. Judgment, fear, worry, shame, rumination - there was literally no room left in my mind for normal living. I couldn't notice the sunset. I couldn't notice someone in need. I couldn't find the humor or simply enjoy my life - because all my focus was drawn inward, trying to fix or avoid what I was feeling. Here's what I've learned since then: when the mind is overloaded, the answer isn't...

Hi Reader - “Remember that a lakecan freezeand unfreezea thousand timesand feel no shame.”-James A. Pearson This is currently one of my favorite poems to contemplate. It’s teaching me so much about myself. Most of us believe nature is perfect as it is. And yet… we apply completely different rules to ourselves. Somewhere along the road of life we may have picked up the belief that “good” people don’t (fill in the blank). Feel negative emotions?Get triggered?React?Contract? We pick up...

Hi Reader - It was Easter 2016, and somewhere in the middle of an extended family gathering, the microwave dinged. I was standing closest, so I opened it. The exposure to the cooler air created a massive explosion of hot, hard-boiled eggs, and I was instantly burned on my face and arms and covered in a bajillion pieces of egg. I yelled. Actually, I probably screamed. And then…. I immediately blamed my husband. Anyone who puts hard-boiled eggs in the microwave has obviously not tried it...

"How do I know if I'm doing the work?" Yesterday, a client asked me: “How do I know if I’m doing the work?” She had just had one of those weeks where she found herself back in a pattern she has been working to change for a long time. Can you relate? Maybe you are working on improving something, but those familiar reactions still sneak in, and suddenly you find yourself asking: “Have I actually made any progress at all?” So back to the golden question… How do I know if the work I’m doing is...