I was scheduled to deliver a talk on a subject I can nerd out on for hours – rewriting the subconscious rules that dictate our lives.   I had a specific woman in mind while drafting this presentation. Ambitious. Successful on the outside but struggling on the inside. Pushing up against the boundaries of her current life, but unclear on what’s next.   A few days before, while on the phone with the organizer, I learned my audience was decidedly not the woman I was imagining. Ra

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I was making dinner one night last week. I asked Alexa to play some news radio. Instead of going to a ‘just the facts’ station, I ended up listening to pundits discussing the events of the day.    I turned it off when my husband got home so we could enjoy a nice meal, review the minutiae of our respective days and ask if the other had seen the funny meme we’d sent. You know, empty-nester stuff.    After dinner, we made our way into the den. Sitting quietly, watching TV, I beg