Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! How to listen: You can hit the play button above to listen on your desktop. OR you can listen in your podcast app by clicking “listen in podcast app.” A link will be emailed to you. Open the link on your phone and it will add In A Word to your podcast app like magic! Instead of the typic…

Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! How to listen: You can hit the play button above to listen on your desktop. OR you can listen in your podcast app by clicking “listen in podcast app.” A link will be emailed to you. Open the link on your phone and it will add In A Word to your podcast app like magic! This is not a typica…

Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! How to listen: You can hit the play button above to listen on your desktop. OR you can listen in your podcast app by clicking “listen in podcast app.” A link will be emailed to you. Open the link on your phone and it will add In A Word to your podcast app like magic! This is Episode 11: …

Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! How to listen: You can hit the play button above to listen on your desktop. OR you can listen in your podcast app by clicking “listen in podcast app.” A link will be emailed to you. Open the link on your phone and it will add In A Word to your podcast app like magic! This is Episode Ten:…

Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! How to listen: You can hit the play button above to listen on your desktop. OR you can listen in your podcast app by clicking “listen in podcast app.” A link will be emailed to you. Open the link on your phone and it will add In A Word to your podcast app like magic! This is episode nine…

Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! How to listen: You can hit the play button above to listen on your desktop. OR you can listen in your podcast app by clicking “listen in podcast app.” A link will be emailed to you. Open the link on your phone and it will add In A Word to your podcast app like magic! This is episode eigh…

Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! How to listen: You can hit the play button above to listen on your desktop. OR you can listen in your podcast app by clicking “listen in podcast app.” A link will be emailed to you. Open the link on your phone and it will add In A Word to your podcast app like magic! This is episode seve…

Hey y’all, In place of a typical issue, today I’m sharing something I made for you, and for me: 7 Ways to Cultivate Contentment. (Press the play button or click “listen in podcast app” above for the audio version.) Contentment is deeper than happiness, and broader than joy. We all want it, but pursuing it feels counterintuitive. If we chase the fee…

Welcome to In a Word, a newsletter that cultivates thoughtfulness, one word at a time. If a friend forwarded you this email, click the button to subscribe: Hey there! I recently shared some thoughts on perfectionism on Instagram. I’d had a rough week or so, in my own head. I hesitated to share about it, because it feels so navel-gazey and self indu…

Welcome to In a Word, a newsletter that cultivates thoughtfulness, one word at a time. If a friend forwarded you this email, click the button to subscribe: Hey there! Here we are, a day into fall, a week from turning the corner into October. A friend told me last week that September is one of the hardest months of the year for people (based on spik…

Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! This is episode four: change. (You can read the change issue of the newsletter here.) I’ve been thinking about change a lot for the past three years. My husband named 2017 the “year of transition,” which is a gentle way of saying “year of change.” He got tenure, and I quit podcasting. I …

Welcome to the companion podcast to the In A Word newsletter! This is episode three: dream. My husband dreams about traffic on the way to the airport. Not day-to-day traffic, but the kind that makes him detour into the entirely wrong city. He dreams that he is at a crowded restaurant, with a large party, and they can’t find his reservation. The gro…

Welcome to In a Word, a newsletter that cultivates thoughtfulness, one word at a time. If a friend forwarded you this email, click here to subscribe. Hey there! Three exciting things about this issue- an audio edition, a new look, and a giveaway! * You may have noticed the giant “play” button at the top of this email. That’s because there’s an audi…

Welcome to this audio companion to the In A Word newsletter! Click “Listen in podcast app” link above, just below the player, to listen. (If this is the first email you’re getting from me, welcome! You can read the latest issue of the newsletter—In A Word: Vacation—here.) My original vision for In A Word included a podcast, but I wasn’t sure what t…