Dr. Mark's Musings
Reflections, practices, and stories for living authentically.
Life Alignment: Where the Journey Begins
A life can still be working when something inside begins asking for attention. The beginning of change often arrives before the decision anyone else can ...
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Learning Spanish by staying in the conversation
A brief waiting-room conversation in Querétaro helped me notice a form of progress in learning Spanish that no exercise or score could quite capture.
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An Underused Route into the Coaching Workforce
Dr. Mark’s Musings An Underused Route into the Coaching Workforce A question from the work of developing undergraduate health and wellness coach preparation became an ...
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When Work Begins to Feel Like Your Own
After returning to a mastermind group nearly a decade later, I began noticing a different measure of work: whether what I do feels like an ...
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Making Sense of Change: Where an Experience Belongs
Two kittens and an editor’s question about chapter order left me thinking about why some life changes make sense only after we can see where ...
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Grief and Change: Mourning What Ends When Good News Comes
An acceptance letter arrived on the first attempt, and what followed was closer to vertigo than to pleasure. On the mourning that hides inside the ...
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