Blog — Jennifer L. Phillips, Ph.D.

Only human

Life, WorkJennifer PhillipsMarch 22, 2021forgiveness, compassion, perfectionism, Self-care

How do you define creative thinking?

Work, CreativityJennifer PhillipsMarch 10, 2021creativity

There will also be joy.

Life, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsMarch 8, 2021grief, joy, Rumi, death

Origin Story: Be the Change

Newsletter, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsFebruary 24, 2021gandhi, change

Out to Sea

Life, WorkJennifer PhillipsFebruary 24, 2021Change, process

One in Seven Billion

Life, Philosophy, Work, HumorJennifer PhillipsFebruary 18, 2021Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Joy, Humor, Perspective, intentionality

Poem: A Meteor Goes to Work

Poetry, LifeJennifer PhillipsFebruary 18, 2021poem, stargazing, stress

Gross National Happiness

Justice, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsFebruary 15, 2021success, economics, bhutan

Helping Friendly Newsletter

Jennifer PhillipsFebruary 5, 2021

Just the Way You Are

To guard against negativity, we suit up in privilege and emotional armor. And those warp our ways of being in the world — from wholehearted, present, and trusting to anxious, hoarding, and entitled.

Philosophy, LifeJennifer PhillipsNovember 18, 2019Mr. Rogers, Compassion, Acceptance, Love

Seriously

A silly poem about taking ourselves too seriously.

Poetry, HumorJennifer PhillipsOctober 18, 2019

Unfolding

Life does not proceed by leaps and bounds. It unfolds. At any given moment, it is the manifestation of a thousand transitions. - Amor Towles

Life, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsOctober 12, 2019Time, Kairos, Presence, Patience, Urgency, Martin Luther King, MLK Jr., uncertainty

Order ➔ Disorder ➔ Reorder

“There’s no nonstop flight from order to reorder. You’ve got to go through the disorder.” - Richard Rohr

Life, WorkJennifer PhillipsJuly 24, 2019Trust, Discomfort, Impermanence, Hope, Krista Tippett, Radical Change, Growth, uncertainty

Find your leaders

Life, WorkJennifer PhillipsJuly 9, 2019Charlottesville, Leadership, Discernment

Softer Answers

We face so many questions as we move through life. The intellect alone can’t answer them all.

LifeJennifer PhillipsJuly 1, 2019Indigo Girls, Mindfulness, Octopus, Mary Poppins, Kindness, uncertainty

Difficult Conversations

Although you can’t engineer human interactions, you can be intentional around message and tone.

Life, WorkJennifer PhillipsJune 16, 2019candor

A Different Kind of Impact

Can we accept our impermanence without sliding into nihilism? What kind of impact is really possible?

Life, WorkJennifer PhillipsJune 1, 2019Impact, Death, Impermanence, Presence, Joanna Macy

You've done a lot.

We do glimpse ourselves clearly from time to time, but we often miss the big picture.

Life, Work, JusticeJennifer PhillipsMay 10, 2019Wholeness, Ambition

What can we do when self-care feels like a burden?

A new video column responding to your questions, drawing from my experience as a chaplain.

LifeJennifer PhillipsMay 10, 2019Compassion, Self-care

Alive Again

Suddenly it feels as if the world is awake again, abuzz with new life. And that energy is contagious.

Life, MusicJennifer PhillipsMarch 13, 2019Spring, Trey Anastasio, Optimism, Hope, Imagination, Nature