Transformational Alchemy for the Highly Sensitive Person
May 02In the debate between resilience vs. toxic positivity, there is some blurring of the lines happening. I thought it would be a good idea to define Resilience and Toxic Positivity. It worries me that I'm more frequently seeing examples of people Keep Reading
Dec 30On this meandering river of life, I recently hit some Class IV rapids. Two months ago I had emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder, and ten days after that I was blasted with an acute episode of Bell's palsy so severe it obliterated my ability to Keep Reading
Feb 28Nobody perfects the art of emotional numbing like the Highly Sensitive Person without a resilience strategy. The reason of course is that the HSP feels more deeply than average, with a nervous system more sensitive than 80% of the population's. Keep Reading
Feb 02And why is it critically important?Our explanatory style is our mode of explaining the good and the bad things that happen in our lives.It has the power to either unravel our stress or ignite it like gasoline and a lit match. It is crucial for Keep Reading
Apr 04A Mindset Manifesto I work with new coaches who, like those in many other creative fields, have to endure short-sided warnings that serve to paralyze, not encourage. "It's so competitive out there!" blah, blah, blah "Don't quit your day job!" I have Keep Reading
Nov 12"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? Is it Keep Reading
May 17The field of Positive Psychology. I love the field of Positive Psychology because they're curious about questions like, “What’s more powerful, Hope or Gratitude?” I mean, just scanning the titles gives me a spark. I recently read an article on the Keep Reading
Mar 17One of the things I most love about my work is that it’s not so much work as it is a fascination to me. I’m a voracious reader and a lot of what I read is in the area of transformational coaching or transpersonal psychology. My work is what I do for Keep Reading
Mar 11Appreciative Inquiry is a school of thought centered around the practice of focusing on what is right in a person’s life rather than wrong. It's a strengths based system that is the engine of my coaching practice. One of the five core tenets of Keep Reading
Feb 231.) It’s all about sports. Coaching comes in many forms, and sports coaching is only one. Even when I tell somebody I’m a transformational or executive coach, I’ve received the question, “For what sport?” Man! It seems in our society sports has Keep Reading