SARAH K PECK

Of course there’s a rational explanation. Perhaps your friend cancels your plans for a good reason. That’s what happened to Dr Marisa Franco. She’d been looking forward to spending some quality time with her friend, but then her friend got into an accident. Naturally, she needed to cancel. As a good friend, she supported her, understood the change. But she is also allowed to be disappointed that her plans changed. This existence of both—this space where we feel compassion for our friend,...

Last week I hosted an intimate salon on female friendship. We gathered a room full of women to talk about what it’s like to need connection as our lives change — and how our friendships change, too, as we drift apart or become the next versions of ourselves. One of the themes that kept coming up was this idea that even if we have good friends, many of us still feel disconnected and lonely. Most of us only need three to five good friends to feel very satisfied with our connections, Anna...

I want to make Mondays a little more magical. Monday mornings are often seen as the slog of the week: getting back into work, finding the rhythm, remembering where you were (or who you were, if the weekend took you out). Which is why I want to find a way to add a little sizzle and spice to my Mondays again. That’s why I'm calling this newsletter Monday Magic. Every Monday, I'll send you a small mindset insight to help make the day a little sweeter. The goal is to create something to help us...

I confessed to a friend this morning that I felt disorganized, that I needed a new system. "How can I be 15 years into this and still need to reconfigure my set-up?" Sarah, she said. Your life has changed so many times. What worked ten years ago wouldn't work today. What worked even two years ago needs an update. What you need from your life and your work will flex. This shifting, editing, iterating? It's normal. This week’s idea: selective advice Not all advice is right for us. Not everyone...

Even decades in, I still find myself starting over. Whenever I'm in the pit, I remind myself: take one tiny step in the direction you want to go. Make it small enough that you can do it today, from exactly where you are. The real art isn't getting it right the first time. It's learning how to begin again. The art is in the re-starting, in getting back into it, in humbly going back to the basics. So I started a writing group. Every Monday, we gather for an hour and write. Three weeks in, it's...