Are your people prepared for hard conversations around things like decolonization and racism? I Heather Plett
After George Floyd’s murder, there was a huge spike in the amount of money invested in diversity and inclusion work across the U.S. According to one study which surveyed HR professionals, 85% have exp...
7 Jul 202111min
Are we worshipping our wounds or seeking mutual liberation? I Heather Plett
Not long ago, I listened to an interview with someone who’d written a piece for the New York Times on the “empty religions of Instagram”. She was critiquing some self-help social media influencers, an...
21 Jun 20219min
Sovereignty is a Relational Concept I Heather Plett
A few years ago, I had a pretty big a-ha moment when I realized that the concept of holding space (which I’ve spent the last seven years exploring in a deep way as I developed programs and wrote a boo...
14 Jun 20218min
Expectations, Trauma, and Over-Functioning I Heather Plett
A few weeks ago, when I was teetering on the edge of crawl-under-the-covers-and-don’t-come-out-until-2022 burnout, I was on Zoom with a couple of wise friends. We were checking in about how our lives ...
17 Mai 202111min
Confessions of an Imperfect Mother I Heather Plett
I turned off the radio this morning, on the way home from driving my daughter to work. It was making me feel a little rage-y and I didn’t want to be in a bad mood. In the lead-up to Mother’s Day, the...
5 Mai 20218min
Tales of an Invisible Woman I Heather Plett
Once there was an Invisible Woman. She wasn’t born that way – in the beginning she was just like every other child, expressing herself freely and wanting to be seen and accepted and loved for who she...
11 Mar 202113min
On becoming a Velveteen Mother I Heather Plett
“Try not to react when you see her. She doesn’t look good.” That’s what my former husband was telling family members outside of my hospital room before they entered. He was right – I was in rough shap...
22 Feb 202121min
Wonder-wonder-wander: My threefold spiritual (and mental health) practice I Heather Plett
I have a three-fold spiritual (and mental health) practice that I like to call “wonder-wonder-wander”. It has become especially relevant to me in recent months while this pandemic winter drags on and ...
18 Feb 202110min
