"The cave you fear to enter is where your power lies." ~~Joseph Campbell
As I was walking along the Camino, I was often alone. My mentor Jennifer got way ahead of me at times, and while I could still see her, I felt like I was alone. It was a very uncomfortable feeling, being so far from my...
Several days into my journey on the Camino, I woke up crying at 4:00 AM. This wasn’t just a tear elegantly sliding down my cheek, this was an outpour. My tears didn’t have a clear emotion tied to them, yet I sobbed uncontrollably; my voice wailing and my body shuddering. I covered my...
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
- Isaac Newton
On my walk on El Camino I made a lot of rookie mistakes. I didn’t train ahead of time, I didn’t have some of the equipment that would have made it smoother for me, and I...
If you read our last newsletter, you know that I recently made the walk at El Camino de Santiago, which begins at Saint Jean Pied de Port, France, and travels 500 miles through four of Spain’s 15 regions, ending at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. It wasn’t the...
I first heard of the El Camino walk on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday. Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist, was her guest and he spoke of how it was on this road that he was inspired to begin writing at the age of 38. Previously, he had been a successful businessman, but after...
As a trial and appellate attorney for over a decade, I have experienced my share of stress. I have also learned to become an expert worrier.
As attorneys, one of the most important skills that we must develop is predicting all of the potential outcomes in our cases. Most of the time (if not all...
Work injuries and illnesses contribute to the pressing issue of income inequality: they force working families out of the middle class and into poverty, and keep the families of lower-wage workers from entering the middle class.1For working families already struggling to meet basic necessities...
What is an FCE?
An FCE’s is a series of tests to measure your physical capacities to do work after an injury. It is usually conducted after you have had an opportunity to recover and have been released from treatment and will evaluate your strength, stamina and other abilities required for...
