Every year I am called to lay it on the line, divulge the contents of my closets. It feels cathartic and it's my way of calibrating where I'm holding myself back in life. Sometimes if feels as though I have two lives. the professional conventional Keep Reading
Archives for November 2013
Choosing the Energy of Coaching
Somebody recently asked me why I don’t become a licensed therapist. The short answer is, I just don’t want to. But a few years ago I spent some time wondering if I should. I was never really drawn to it, the field of coaching was always my interest, Keep Reading
Flourishing vs. Quicksand!
I read an article on the field of Positive Psychology this week and in a paragraph I found the word, "happiology". I laughed out loud! Just reading the word made me happy. The foundation of Positive Psychology is the understanding that positive Keep Reading
A Word on Personal Power
We get so conditioned to keep things tidy-- who wants to deal with the messes of life-- that we learn to hand out our personal power to the lowest bidder. We avoid asking the difficult questions, speaking our needs, considering our passions at the Keep Reading
Mind Over Medicine
Here we are coming up on one of the major holidays of the year in America. It's a day stuffed with expectations of gratitude, family, and abundance. For many, it's exactly that-- pure joy-- and for many more it's exactly the opposite. This holiday, Keep Reading
Placebo: That Annoying Miracle
Why aren't we all continuously blown-away by a little thing called the Placebo Effect? You know, when you give someone a tic-tac, call it chemotherapy and within 24 hours their tumor is 1/2 the size it was yesterday? (It's not an exaggeration! It's Keep Reading
Facing the Grizzly Bear
Curious people knowingly invest in activities that cause them discomfort as a springboard to higher psychological peaks." ~ Kashdan & Biswas-Diener (August 2013 issue of Psychology Today). Following curiosity at the risk of discomfort, like Keep Reading
Stuck!
I help people live their dreams and navigate the changes required to do so. Sometimes those changes are big. Sometimes with just the slightest adjustment, away we go! It's glorious to watch. Living our dreams requires an understanding of where we're Keep Reading
Come To The Edge
"Come to the edge", he said. "We're afraid", they said. "Come to the edge", he said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew. ~ Guillaume Apollinaire What is your Edge right now? What are you coming up against, being asked to overcome or Keep Reading
Visualizing the Possibility
One of the most exciting aspects of watching my coaching business expand is the fine-tuning that comes with the expansion. When the work became plentiful enough, I found I could begin to calibrate my process into something that truly made me happy. Keep Reading