Transformational Alchemy for the Highly Sensitive Person
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
Dec 04Shame vs. Healthy Guilt Dr. Brene' Brown, the world's guru on 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 who can't do anything Keep Reading
Nov 27Why I decided to be a Transformational Coach. Somebody recently asked me why I decided to practice Transformational Coaching rather than as a licensed mental health care practitioner. Because I have a Bachelor's and Master's in psychology, it gets Keep Reading
Nov 18Hiding in plain sight. Why aren't we all continuously amazed by 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
Nov 14Getting unstuck. 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 they go. It's beautiful to watch. Living our dreams requires an Keep Reading
Jul 24I experience a lot of people looking for The Answer. I can see them right now, shaking their heads in mild defeat, “I just don’t know what the answer is.” Shrugging, leaving it at that, shelving it so they don’t have to delve into a place of Keep Reading
May 22The (sometimes) Myth of Scientific Objectivity. What if all scientific objectivity was filtered through the Buddhist concept of Beginner's Mind? Beginner's Mind is about opening to all possibilities instead of attaching to deeply entrenched beliefs Keep Reading
May 13Stuck in a Control Loop. Recently I found myself stuck in struggling with world events I have no ability to change or influence. I felt my anxiety escalating, and right when I put my hand to my heart to calm my nervous system, a book title popped Keep Reading
May 10I had a dream a few years ago. It went like this... In a woodland clearing was a temple, round, concrete, and sterile looking. Within the structure was an immense creature which looked like an alabaster curl bug with long tentacles and short Keep Reading
May 05I love Transpersonal Psychology, a field which captured my heart over a decade ago. Transpersonal psychology validated my existence at a time in my life when more rigid forms of Western psychology defined me as broken. The focus of my Master's Keep Reading