Blog | Words With Elaine

"How can I say this so we can stay in this car together, and yet - explore the things that I want to explore with you?"

Claudia Rankine

The Psychology of List Making

I’m an advocate for list-making. I make one myself most mornings, taking the time over my first cup of coffee to contemplate my day. What...

On Home, Locality & Identity

Home is a feeling, warm like the sun, inside everyone needs a safe place to run, run to the morning, faster than the sun, someone is...

What Story Are You Writing?

Vital Relationship Lessons From Esther Perel's On Being Talk. “You pick a partner — you pick a story — what story do you want to...

Accountability, Responsibility & You

I know I’m not alone when I say it often feels like we’ve become obsessed with ‘holding one another accountable’. There are authentic...

Untangling Normal People, Love & Relationship Intelligence

The three are connected, but not in the way we might initially think. If you haven’t read the book or watched the HULU series, Normal...

The Unspoken Complexity of a Meditation Practice

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be...