by Amy Steindler | Dec 1, 2022
I had a dream last night in which a woman I didn’t know was collapsing in grief on the sidewalk in front of a brightly lit theater marquee. As I went to lift her up, she said, “You always know what to do.” I said to her, “Let me hold some of...
by Amy Steindler | Sep 1, 2022
I was messaging another coach today, someone who once came to me as a client for a reality check. As I sent a few words of encouragement, I noticed a familiar and common phenomenon: the words I said to him were completely applicable to my own mindset in the moment. I...
by Amy Steindler | Jul 12, 2022
In recent months, I’ve become hyper-aware of language that we’ve all used at some point, but we don’t always notice. When we say things like “part of me wants to quit my job, but part of me thinks I just need to work harder,” we’re identifying and calling out an inner...
by Amy Steindler | Nov 30, 2021
Some years ago, I heard a story about three-year-old Nolan running into his house to retrieve another ball. He had to get another ball because Kurt, who was 47, “made a really BIG mistake,” having tossed the ball into the neighbor’s fenced yard,...
by Amy Steindler | Jul 29, 2021
Hey. Yeah, I know. It’s been a minute. It’s not that I haven’t been thinking about writing. I think about it every day. It’s just that I haven’t actually sat my arse down in front of a keyboard. Well, that’s not actually true. Facebook knows it’s not true, and Jimmy...
