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Martha Beck. I’ve mentioned her a couple of times before (or maybe all the time). She’s on my Top Ten list of coaches I love. She seeped into my brain through articles in O Magazine that I read when I was living in Poland. I would buy an Oprah magazine at an exorbitant price at a...
As a kid, I loved sitting down to untangle chainlink necklaces. You know, the kind that you would tug at from one end and it wouldn’t unravel, it would just make the tangle more solid? I reveled in my ability to sit patiently and push on that tangle until I saw a section that I’d be...
You know you have gut feelings, an intuition, but how do you know if you are listening to it or if you're just bullshitting yourself?
You don’t. Not without a lot of practice. This is also really tricky when you've been burnt out. Being burnt out puts your brain in a place where listening...
No, seriously. New Year's Resolutions Suck.
I’d like to share with you what I do instead of New Year’s resolutions. New Year's Resolutions suck, we all suck at them and we all get sucked into them. A few years ago, I started choosing a theme for the year instead of making...
For those of you who don’t know me personally, I’m going to give you a little background information. In addition to being brought up in a household that was concerned with ‘never being a bother’ to anyone, I also spent over a decade of my life working in bars and...
I was curled up on my oversized bean bag watching the clouds pass over this October’s full moon. I love the moon. This one seems particularly powerful. The clouds are lighter in some places, darker in others; thicker in some places, thinner in others. And as I watched the light of the moon...
Clients and patients tell me all the time that they aren't stressed because they have 'no reason' to be. It would be lovely to have life situations and stressful reactions wrapped up on little timelines that made some sort of sense. It would also be great if they were standardized across people...
Rituals are the base of all religious practices for good reason. According to Chinese medicine, when we need to calm the heart, we should focus on rituals. Our expectations are met because we repeat known actions. Meeting expectations, in turn, creates feelings of safety and surety.
IN A WORLD...
Have you been happy and angry at the same time? Grateful and fearful?
I know I’ve been there. Really excited about an upcoming trip and at the same time anxious about what could go wrong… so happy to be digging into my favorite dessert and also feeling guilty about the calories and...
It was magical.
We celebrated the 11th anniversary of our meeting. We soaked up the beauty of the mountains, sweat our tushes off on the cross country trails and treated ourselves to great meals. We walked into the apartment after being away, with loads of laundry and a ton of organizing to do...
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