Somebody asked me recently to share one tool for maintaining equilibrium during particularly stressful times. She told me that earlier in the day she had thrown her hands in the air, succumbing to a mini melt-down, certain she'd never make it through Keep Reading
If Not Now, When?
I had this dream a few years ago, one of those Big Dreams that tends to change a person. It was an important teaching for me at the time and for some reason I thought of it today. The dream went like this... In a woodland clearing was an Keep Reading
The Spirit of Sadness
I love Transpersonal Psychology, a field which captured my heart years ago. Transpersonal psychology validated my existence whereas the more typical forms of Western psychology defined me as broken. The focus of my academic study was, in fact, how Keep Reading
Save the Earth by Putting Your Heart First.
The purpose of coaching is to guide a person to reach their dreams, no matter how big or small. As a coach, I do this by listening to the dreams of my clients, mirroring patterns of destructive linguistics so those patterns can shift immediately (we Keep Reading
Anxiety As Our Ally
Altering a destructive situation. Initiating change. Reframing our perception. Incorporating the tools to believe in ourselves. Empowerment. These are the building-blocks for my passion for coaching. I woke up remembering a dream I had a few years Keep Reading
Love or Money? Love and Money!
In the science of human behavior, reward systems are frequently explored. There have been countless studies done on the effects of extrinsic (external) vs. intrinsic (internal) motivation. It"s widely understood that intrinsic motivation, (doing Keep Reading
Getting in the Flow.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is one of my modern day heroes. He's a college professor, formerly the head of psychology at the University of Chicago, now director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate University in California. Keep Reading
Soul Treasures
I've always had a cherished relationship with my dreams. I've never passed dreams off as the meaningless result of something I ate before I went to bed, or some remnant of a movie watched recently. My dreams to me are pathways into my own soul. To Keep Reading
Our Fears = Greatest Gifts.
When Aaron and I first moved to New Mexico from Minnesota 3 & 1/2 years ago, we pulled up to our new home having no idea what to expect of the interior. I rented it from intuition alone, not able to see the inside due to massive renovations Keep Reading
It’s All in the Delivery!
I just finished a great book called Life’s Wake Up Call: The Content to Process Shift by Michael Vandermark. Content to Process shifting is about evolving your communication from what you said, to how you said it. We’ve all had the argument, “It’s Keep Reading