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Wisdom of the Heart

Wisdom of the Heart provides reflections and resources to help you navigate life's important crossroads with clarity, purpose, and peace of mind. As a coach and spiritual director, Lisa helps accomplished, spiritually minded people in mid-late career who feel burned out, empty and stuck to reconnect with their purpose, gain clarity about what they most desire and transition to their next fulfilling career or into a thriving retirement with confidence and peace of mind.

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You don’t have to carry it all alone

What Release Makes Room For Hi Reader, Here in the Mid-Atlantic, autumn rarely arrives all at once. The mornings are cooler now, and the days are noticeably shorter, but most of the trees are still green. More leaves are beginning to loosen and fall. At the farmers' markets, tomatoes and zucchini linger beside apples, hard-shell squash, and other signs of the season ahead. Summer and autumn seem to be sharing the landscape for a while. I appreciate this gradual turning. It reminds me that...

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Hi Reader, I wanted to let you know about another place where I’ve been writing and sharing reflections on career transition, discernment, and what comes next. Earlier this summer, I launched a LinkedIn newsletter called At the Crossroads. While Wisdom of the Heart (which you receive monthly by email) offers a broader, more reflective exploration of meaningful work, life transitions, and the inner journey, At the Crossroads is more specifically focused on the questions and realities that...

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What a Different Rhythm Reveals Hi Reader, Summer has its own way of rearranging our days. Many of us are still tending meaningful work, responsibilities, and personal priorities while also wanting to leave room for family visits, spontaneous invitations, time outside, and the experiences that make summer feel like summer. We want to keep important things moving without scheduling every hour so tightly that there is no room to enjoy the life happening around us. Even when our responsibilities...

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The Gift of a Spacious Path Hi Reader, As summer arrives with fuller light, warmer days, and the invitation to move a little more slowly, I’ve been noticing my own desire for spaciousness. Not necessarily a dramatic pause or a complete clearing of the calendar, but definitely more room to breathe. More unhurried time. More space to listen inward before rushing into the next thing. At the same time, I’ve been deep in the process of creating a new Career Exploration Workbook and Toolkit for...

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Your Life is Not a Problem to Solve Hi Reader, Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a familiar pattern showing up in many of my client conversations. It often begins with a simple but weighty question: “What should I do next?” From there, it’s easy to move quickly into problem-solving mode -- mapping out options, researching roles, comparing paths, trying to figure out the "right" answer. The focus narrows to which job, which direction, which decision will finally bring clarity. And yet,...

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Who Am I Becoming Now? Hi Reader, Over the past few weeks, I’ve been struck by how unpredictable this season has felt. One day it’s 80 degrees and full of light… the next, snow, dark clouds, or heavy winds roll through. Even here in the mid-Atlantic area, the swings have been dramatic -- warmth, then cold, then storms, even tornados, that seem to come out of nowhere. In some ways, it feels like a reflection of the larger moment we’re living in. There is so much happening in the world right...