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 | 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 | 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...
by Amy Steindler | Jan 26, 2021
This is the second in a series of moments in which clients do important, transformational work that makes me want to give them a standing Ovation. Some details have been changed to protect confidentiality. Every word in every client’s story has been vetted and...
by Amy Steindler | Oct 25, 2020
This is the first in a series of moments in which clients do important, transformational work that makes me want to give them a standing Ovation. Some details have been changed to protect confidentiality. Every word in every client’s story has been vetted and...
by Amy Steindler | Jun 13, 2019
Trust that your generous gestures are enough. I have a lovely friend who gifted me some “surplus” homemade chocolate mousse (surplus? Not in my house). As she handed it to me, she apologized for a bit of visible whipped cream that “wasn’t...
