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Mastering the Art of a Positive Mindset: Your Key to Conquering Life’s Challenges
Challenges take center stage in the grand theater of life, frequently arriving as unforeseen plot twists. These challenges can be formidable, testing our resolve and pushing us to our limits. So, what ...
Connecting on a DEEPER Level by Managing Conflicts: How to Argue Better and What to Say in an Argument
Disagreements often lead to frustration and misunderstandings. This happens because we cannot separate a specific issue at stake from the person with whom we disagree...
Communication in the Digital Age: Creating Deep and Meaningful Connections
Dive into the world of deep connections and understand the fight, flight, or freeze responses that can make or break our relationships.
Change Your Question, Change Your Life: The Art of Asking Transformative Questions
Do you ever find yourself stuck in a loop of negative thoughts and self-doubt? The kind where you constantly ask yourself, "Why am I not good at this?" or "Why do I always make the same mistakes?"
Navigating Self-Blame: Embracing Growth and Resilience through Compassion
We explore the complex emotions surrounding self-blame and its impact on our well-being, self-esteem, and relationships.
How to Become More Grateful
Gratitude is not an “emotion”, but exercising gratitude can help us with our emotional states, including those we find troubling. Gratitude crosses the boundary between the Spiritual and the Emotional Aspects of Being.
In Order to Know, You First Need to Love
“A drop of love is more than an ocean of knowledge.” ~ Blaise Pascal Over the years, I have encountered some clients who are already in a steady relationship but are ‘unsure’ if it’s the right move to ...
Embodied Wisdom: The first step to know yourself
Know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom. The first step toward any change is awareness. And the first step to better awareness is to turn your attention inward, not just to your mind, but to your ...
Rewiring Your Money Beliefs
You’re preparing for your annual performance review, as your salary will be discussed yearly. You’d love to obtain $X of raise, but you’re unsure how to do it. Your results were good, and your positi ...
What Not to Do on Holiday Weekends (Or Any Weekend For That Matter)
I love holiday weekends. Combine a barbecue or two with friends, strolling the NYC street festivals, and a little poolside lounging if I'm lucky and Memorial Day weekend always feels like just the “st ...
What You’re Seeking in a Soulmate Could Be (Way) Closer Than You Think
Maybe it's because, when it comes to movies, I'm of the international/art film variety, but I was never too keen on the 90s hit Jerry Maguire, especially after I realized how unhealthy the message is ...
She Power: Why Strength and Femininity Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Today is International Women's Day: 24 hours dedicated to honoring powerful women across the planet. I'm all over it. I take any opportunity I can to celebrate feminine energy and raise my glass to st ...
Learn to Speak Her Love Language (Even If She’s Multilingual)
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, what language do they speak? (Judging from my experience as a life and relationship coach, I'd say our dialects couldn't be more different.) In my own re ...
What Harry Potter Teaches Us About True Love
Last weekend, I was catching up on a little Oprah –thank goodness for DVR– when I came upon her interview with J.K. Rowling, the genius behind the Harry Potter franchise. The seven books in the series ...
What’s Your Hot Dog Factor?
“I absolutely HATE those intolerant people!” Notice anything oxymoronic in the above sentence? In a recent session, Julia grumbled that the dating scene in New York was so miserable that she wanted OU ...
“I Do” But I Don’t Understand You: The Married Girl’s Guide to Understanding Men – Part 2
In the first part of this series, I suggested treating marriage licenses more like driver's licenses, with minimum practice hours and the ability to demonstrate a basic understanding men being bridal ...
“I Do” But I Don’t Understand You: The Married Girl’s Guide to Understanding Men-Part 1
Sometimes I think that obtaining a marriage license should be more like obtaining a driver's license. The DMV (the Department of Marriage Vows) could require couples to log a certain number of practi ...
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Relationship Advice For Commitment Phobia
Okay, guys- humor me and take a quick commitment quiz. Do your relationships typically last for less than a few months? Do you usually find deal-breaking flaws in your love interests? Do you distance ...
Feel Your Feelings
In the previous post, we wrote about the challenge of dealing with emotional reactions, the vital information that emotions carry, and the most basic ways to describe the experience. We will continue ...
Client’s Transformation Cycle
Coaching Clients’ Cycle of Transformation can be approximated by the concept of Hierarchy of Competence, developed in the late 1960s and attributed to Michael M. Broadwell. The model distinguishes b ...
How to Make Better Decisions?
Many coaching clients experience blocks at the level of decision-making. …
...Write Your Heart Out: Journaling as a Spiritual Practice
One of the first steps toward finding a spiritual path is to engage in some practice on a regular basis. …
...Breaking away from Social Media, and Give Yourself a Break
In this age of information overload, social media has become the main source of everything, whether it’s communications with our friends and co-workers, newsfeed, or sharing all sorts of content. ...
What if things go wrong?
What if things go wrong? This perennial question reflects our tendency toward risk aversion. …
...The Ultimate Guide for Setting Goals in 2022
Among the familiar traditions that we practice are birthday wishes and New Year’s resolutions. Both are associated with goals. Goals are the things that we want to achieve in life. We set goals ...
What to do when you lose your job?
Did you just lose your job? I know. What could be worse? Death, serious illness, divorce, a painful relocation. But it’s up there, among the most acute crises one could face in life. Back in the da ...
5 Steps to a More Fulfilling Life
This is my answer to wikiHow's question: How to pick the right goals in life, and achieve them! Many of us have experienced the brief satisfaction of achieving a specific goal, be it when acquiring a ...
Becoming a Life Coach in 2023: Is it still worth it?
Have you ever wondered what it truly means to become a successful life coach? The journey begins by mastering the essential foundations of coaching. This entails going into the intricacies of the coach-client relationship, crafting sessions with precision, and refining the core coaching skills that make a significant difference.
Change Your Question, Change Your Life: The Art of Asking Transformative Questions
Do you ever find yourself stuck in a loop of negative thoughts and self-doubt? The kind where you constantly ask yourself, "Why am I not good at this?" or "Why do I always make the same mistakes?"
Navigating Self-Blame: Embracing Growth and Resilience through Compassion
We explore the complex emotions surrounding self-blame and its impact on our well-being, self-esteem, and relationships.
How to Become More Grateful
Gratitude is not an “emotion”, but exercising gratitude can help us with our emotional states, including those we find troubling. Gratitude crosses the boundary between the Spiritual and the Emotional Aspects of Being.
Embodied Wisdom: The first step to know yourself
Know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom. The first step toward any change is awareness. And the first step to better awareness is to turn your attention inward, not just to your mind, but to your ...
How You Talk to Yourself Matters
“It just hasn’t happened for me.” How often do we say things like this? Or a variety thereof. Is there anything wrong with this sentence? And if so, what is it? Let us examine how we struct ...
How to Speak The Language of Emotions
Let’s face it, emotions can be daunting sometimes. That’s why we often try to dull our sensory experience to “protect” ourselves from certain emotions. These could be primary emotions that we instinc ...
Feel Your Feelings
In the previous post, we wrote about the challenge of dealing with emotional reactions, the vital information that emotions carry, and the most basic ways to describe the experience. We will continue ...
Where do Emotions Come From?
Emotions are with us since the day we are born. When we develop as infants, we develop emotionally – in response to our environment, other people, and literally every element of our life that we eith ...