Tama Kieves

Your Alternative Career Search: Relax, Heal, and Play

A "practical" career search won't lead to an inspired outcome. I want you to have an inspired outcome. That's because you have a calling inside you as bright as ten thousand shooting stars. You are not empty or misaligned or born in the wrong time. It's n... Read >

Your Divine Assignment: Doing the Work You Love

(this piece originally appeared in the Omega Institute's online publication) When I had my career melt-down and fled the life of being an elite-law-firm-corporate-lawyer, (an honors graduate of Harvard Law School) I thought I was changing careers. I ha... Read >

Life Can Be Fantastic: Your Joy is Your Power

I am committed to allowing myself to receive more freaking goodness than I can imagine. To start with, I am going to know that, independent of anyone else's predictions or convictions, my life can be fantastic. I am going to stop calling negativity and li... Read >

Floundering Towards Grace: Making Big Moves with Small Steps

I think one of the things that has made me successful in life is I'm willing to do things that are not flattering. I have been willing to not have it "all together," and to still believe I stood on a path that promised more security than any other road in... Read >

Perfect Timing: All the way to Heaven is Heaven

Recently a client of mine was sick of "having faith" while it seemed she slogged towards her dream in thick molasses. "I just want to get there now," she screeched, scoffing at all her previous progress. I felt sad. This wasn't the combustible kind of fru... Read >

Diary of a Creative Mind

Week One: Get a creative idea and the slightest bit of encouragement and feel on top of the world, burning, singing, dancing, and feeling as though it all makes sense now and everything will come together. You are magnificent. You will be rich. Life is... Read >

Go Green: Turning Your Jealousy into Strength

The other day I read about an acquaintance, another author, I know who was featured in The New York Times. As I came upon the story, try as I might to fill my mind with the bird songs and daisies of good will, I felt sandpaper scrape my soul. Immediately,... Read >

Stop Comparing Yourself: Dive into Your Own Sweet Life!

Some years ago, I sat at this wedding and met a younger woman who had gone to two Ivy League schools and had a masters and a doctorate and had run marathons and traveled in countries like Cambodia and Vietnam. Not only that, but she was strikingly pretty,... Read >

Allowing Life to Change You: Choosing Trust instead of Control

I saw a coaching client recently who wanted to get right down to business and plan out her new, bold life. She wasn't sure what that life was, but she wanted to map it out, pin it down, and make it happen. She looked at me with exhausted eyes and silently... Read >

Your Secret Self: Awakening the Powers of the Inspired Self

You have no idea how strangely magical you are. Most of us could never imagine the fire and promise we hold. We live in a culture that tells us to be "realistic." That means dampen our enthusiasms and compromise our vision. We are encouraged to bow to... Read >

Mothering Ourselves: Nurturing Yourself, Your Dreams and the World

I have had to learn how to mother myself in this lifetime. I love my mother, more so these days than ever before, but for many years I felt like I got the short end of the umbilical cord. Like many of us, I didn't get the movie mother in this lifetime, th... Read >

Getting Answers: You Can’t Figure it Out. You Can Only Let it Out.

As a coach, I'm in the business of helping people get answers to their most pressing decisions in life. Now, it's not uncommon for a client to come or call and say, "I like gardening, playing the cymbals, hiking in the backcountry, helping people, and lea... Read >

In Celebration of Foolishness: Every Hero Begins as Fool

In celebration of April Fool's Day and of all Spring's new beginnings, I wanted to encourage you to be a little bit more "foolish" in your life. There is power in daring to be different. Great advances have never come from the conventionally minded am... Read >

Trust the Miracle of Change

Surrender to the tidal wave. This fierce love is here to assist you in beginning a new, true, invincible life. If you're feeling unsettled by the unknown and assaulted by change, remember, it's a strength to be undoing that which no longer works. This is ... Read >

A Vow of Love for Yourself: Happy Valentine’s Day

I wrote this on a day when I didn't feel like writing or being in my own skin. I wanted to be somewhere else or better yet, someone else. I wrote this as a dedication and a commitment to not abandon myself. It strikes me now that it's an appropriate gift ... Read >