Coaching

I work with a lot of new coaches who, like those in many other creative fields, have to endure the barrage of warnings that serve to paralyze, not encourage. "It's so competitive!" blah, blah, blah "Don't quit your day job!" I have rejected these Keep Reading

Dr. Brene' Brown, the country's current guru of shame, writes that shame and empathy are on the same scale. On one end we have shame, the feeling that when we mess up we are a horrible, awful, unlovable person rather than feeling a case of healthy Keep Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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