In improv class a couple days ago, an instructor gave me feedback. He said something like, “I’ve noticed you’re good at saying how you feel about a situation, but you don’t act on it. Act on how you’re feeling.” I let that feedback marinate, mixed with just the slightest amount of rumination. And I realized […]

Taking action on how I feel—in improv and life

Kathleen jumping in front of the Sydney opera house.

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I auditioned for my college’s improv group every year I was there—and I never made the cut. I remember taking an improv workshop in college and feeling so awkward (not in an endearing way) and saying “I’m sorry” multiple times. But still, there was something about improv that lingered in my brain. For years, as […]

4 people on stage doing improv

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Forgiveness is hard. Scratch that, forgiveness is really hard.  It’s easier to remain angry or hold a grudge than make peace with the past. It feels scary and unsafe to do the thing that is actually healthiest for us. But when we don’t forgive, what often happens is we live through the lens of previous […]

Kathleen holding a journal with both hands.

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Dessert soufflé sweet chocolate cupcake. Cotton candy tootsie roll sweet roll gummies bear claw. 

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