Typically, people contact me about writing. They are stuck, have writer's block, feel anxiety about writing, beat themselves up for not doing more, not being better, needing to catch up. About half of my clients are assistant professors — a few doctoral students, then associates, fulls, and administrators — and naturally they worry about tenure. Writing is the door people walk through to enter my coaching office (via Zoom, of course 🦄)
Yet once they open that door, there is a lot more that we work on. I view myself as a personal, career, and writing coach for scholars. So over the years, I have written about all of it: the personal challenges that academics face — that I have faced — and ways of facing them. I write about the politics and relational tangles of higher ed. I have written about mental health, productivity, time management, rituals, meditation, and happiness. And yes, sometimes I write about writing. 🦄
Mostly, I write about who we are, and who we wish to be, in this wacky and delightfully wonderful world of ours. I write about all of it because I coach about all of it.
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