People ask me if I ever have bad days. I usually have a smile on my face, and my Facebook posts are categorically bright, positive, uplifting, or some other form of good energy, including the giddy joy of downright silliness. To answer that question, yes, I do have days like today when the circumstances of …
I wrote this after a conversation with a dear friend who is stuck. I’ve been there; I know what it felt like before I walked through the glass. The other side of the glass I stand in this life that I’m so accustomed to, and look through the glass to what’s on the other side. …
“If you don’t slow down, your body will find a way to make you slow down.”
Thanks, Body! Here’s what I’ve learned:
• Happiness is an inside job
Of course, we all know this in our heads, but I really got the experience, again!
Gregory came to pick me up after surgery. The hospital staff made sure I was full of pain and anti-nausea medication before he put me in the car for a two-hour drive back to Orlando. For the first two days, I happily leaned on him and went for walks up & down stairs and around the community pool. Then the medication wore off AND an infection set in.
Nonetheless, I spent a total of 12 days with Greg. Peace, love, harmony, rest, healing, joy. All were present and continuous.
“Self-care is the highest form of care.” The first time I heard Peter Reding of Coach for Life utter those words, I couldn’t follow the thought. After nearly twenty years of therapy and self-help, my default was still taking care of other people.
One of my freeing moments in coaching came when I realized that every “episode” in my life stems from something that I have set myself up perfectly to learn. As I was having a rant one day (aren’t we all entitled?) my Life Coach asked me, “What have you set yourself up perfectly to learn …
If I told you right now that I love you and I think you are the most magnificent person on the face of the planet, what would your response be? Just sit with it for a minute. Really get in touch with your beliefs around that. Listen to your self talk. Experience the words again: …
I have adopted the Coach for Life ‘Standards of Presence’ as a way of coaching and as a way of life. Breathing it into my being has required that I search out what the elements really mean for me. My current focus is on my intention to “adopt a stand for innocence, have a beginner’s …