Run Like a Girl | Igniting The Spark For Your Next Great Adventure!

Meet the Coach

My journey to this place began in a high school hallway lined with young men holding cards with numbers that they were using to rate the teenage girls coming through the door. I remember standing at that doorway feeling stuck and very alone. Suddenly, my creative writing teacher appeared at the other end of the hall. He was the...

Tell Your Run Like a Girl Story

Tell us about a defining moment in your childhood. It might be a humorous lesson you learned the hard way or a time in your life when you conquered a fear. Keep it short, 300 words or less. Include a photo if you would like. Let us know whether you want to share it with Kathy or everyone. Have fun! Example: "I cried the day I had to jump...

Reinvent.U

Long ago, your life lay before you like a limitless horizon. You couldn't have known all the turns, dips, and switchbacks your life would take. Today, you stand with a full view of where you have been, and a new horizon, and you are once again filled with a mixture of anticipation and uncertainty. A familiar voice whispers...

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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". -Mary Ann Radmacher You can't test courage cautiously. - Annie Dillard Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking. -Katharine Hepburn Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. - Susan Longacre If you talk enough, you don't feel you have to do anything. - Linda Grace Updike Making your unknown known is the important thing. - Georgia O'keefe You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do. -Liz Smith The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. - Barbara Colorose Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. - Susan L. Taylor Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. - Ernestine Ulmer It's never too late in fiction or in life to revise. - Nancy Thayer To love what you do and feel that it matters; how could anything be more fun? - Katherine Graham Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. - Corita Kent Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history, but to shape history. - Madeleine K. Albright When in doubt, wear red shoes. - Bill Blass

Posted by Kathy on Jan 17, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

Running With Scissors, Eating Paste

Sometimes Excavating the Girl Means Running With Scissors, Eating Paste “There is always a cost for change, always. If you think you can get there the easy, quick or pain free method, you will be sorely disappointed.” Neighbor: “Hey there!” Me: “Happy New Year, how is it going?” Neighbor: “ Pretty good, you lost weight?” [...]

Posted by Kathy on Jan 13, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

THIS YEAR, Excavate The Girl!

Discovering the Laws of Longevity ”The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.” ~Doris Lessing The other day a friend was sharing with me about watching the movie [...]

Posted by Kathy on Jan 11, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

BEFORE CHIA PETS THERE WAS A GARDEN.

New Years thoughts about change and Chia pets. Did you enter the New Year face first in fatigue? Is this new year feeling a little bit like the last? Get in line, the rest of us got here before you.

Posted by Kathy on Dec 28, 2010 in Blog | 2 comments

Lost in Transition: What do you do when you don’t know what to do?

“Life is serious and we never know when we will turned up-side down and shaken until every shred of hope falls out of our pockets. So belly laughs, time with good friends, silly hats and soulful living becomes our medicine counteracting our desire to take this life seriously.”~ Kathy Vick In my profession I talk [...]

Posted by Kathy on Dec 25, 2010 in Blog | 1 comment

It Really is a Wonderful Life!

“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” ~a 7-year-old named Bobby Last night as we stood in the candlelight service, my husband squeezed my hand. The more he squeezed the more excited I became. My husband, who has not been able to sing a song [...]

Posted by Kathy on Nov 1, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

PUT ON YOUR RED SHOES…WE ARE LAUNCHED!

Yesterday, I got a pair of cowboy boots in the mail from eBay. The minute I put them on, I wanted to scuff up their slick, leather soles in some dirt, drink a beer from the can and kick something. Is that weird? Or do shoes carry stories with them? Do they inspire the adventurer, the practical [...]