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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 ...
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 ...
Deepening Awareness – Key to Coaching Success
We think. Therefore, we are conscious beings. But we are more than that—we are also self-aware. What is the difference? And why is it important for a life coach to help the client deepen their awar ...
How to Cope with Anxiety
Anxiety comes in all colors and shades. Of all various emotional states, it is anxiety that is associated with most semantic imprecision. Depending on its intensity, it can be described as “disquiet”, ...
What is Anxiety?
How often do we hear about anxiety? It has become one of the most common words my coaching clients use to describe their emotional state. The term usually appears as a noun, but note that its meaning ...
Dating For Keeps: Yes! You Can Find Long Term Love
“When I was younger, every year on my birthday I would blow out the candles and secretly wish that this would be the year I would find true love.” Lauryn is engaged now and she recounts her single da ...
The Fail-Proof Relationship Fix You Won’t See On TV
“You'll never guess what happened to Lindsey!” Beth blurted out just a few seconds into our conversation. “The poor thing. She found out that Kevin's been cheating for months and she is just complet ...
Flirting Tips For Men: Drop the Pick-Up Line and Get Her Number
“Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?” “I hope you know CPR, because you just took my breath away.” “If I could rearrange the alphabet, I’d put “U” and “I” together.” Soun ...
It’s Hard To Say I’m Sorry: How to Fix a Fight and Save a Relationship
Last Thursday, I met Leah for an emergency appointment. “I just needed to vent about Jake! We had a fight.” I'm no stranger to propping up my clients from time to time as they navigate battles an ...
Unlucky in Love? 5 Dating Mistakes You Must Avoid
With summer underway and all my favorite shows on hold until fall, I watch reality dating shows once in a while. (Just for research, of course.) After just a few episodes, I can't help but feel worri ...
No More Bad Boys: Learning How to Choose the Love You Want and Need
Have you ever said something along the lines of, “I know he's bad for me, but he's just too sexy/smart/successful to resist”? Or, perhaps you have patiently listened time after time as your girlfrien ...
10 First Date Tips for Single Guys
My friend Andy is a runner and he frequently compares dating to a grueling long hurdle race. “Once you pass the first hurdle, getting her name and her number,” he says, “then you're up against an eve ...
How to Be Irresistible to Men Without Changing Who You Are – Part 2
In my last entry, I shared a little about my friend and former client, Shannon, a smart, spirited girl with a bit of bad luck when it came to the opposite sex. Meeting Shannon you would have thought ...
How to Be Irresistible to Men Without Changing Who You Are
The first time I met Shannon, I saw right away that she was beautiful, bright, spunky, and full of energy. “What a catch,” I thought to myself. To my surprise, I soon discovered that the men in Shan ...
You’re On the Right Track, Baby, You Were Born This Way
Okay, I'll admit it—I was never a huge Gaga fan. (Believe it or not, I'm a bit too old for electropop.) But I was genuinely moved by her backstage confession. Gaga's confession is a powerful example o ...
Want To Live Like Lauryn Hill? Get Some Shades
Remember when Lauryn Hill was all the rage? The Fugees R&B rock star hit it big in 1998 when she released her own album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Then, after announcing that she felt pul ...
The "I Can’t" Crash Diet: Cutting Junk From Your Vocabulary
I'm going on a diet. It's time to cut back. No, I'm not the newest P90X convert and I haven't filled my fridge with a month's supply of meat and potatoes. I'm trimming the fat in my vocabulary, not ...
Addicted to Distractions? Kick the Habit and Put Productivity On Your “To Do” List
How many windows do you have open right now? Be honest. My count is 12. And that's not so bad compared to a normal day of coaching when the bottom of my screen is blinking so blindingly that I have ...
Are You Too Tired to Have Angelina Jolie’s Life?
The other day, a new client walked into my coaching office. "What do you want to see happen in the next 6 months?" I asked. "I want to be an actress like Angelina Jolie." She said. "But I'm stuck in a ...
All It Costs Is Being Right: How to Be Happy in Life and Love
You say potato and I say potahto, You say tomato and I say tomahto Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto, Let's call the whole thing off ~ George and Ira Gershwin I was riding the subway last week when I h ...
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 ...
Deepening Awareness – Key to Coaching Success
We think. Therefore, we are conscious beings. But we are more than that—we are also self-aware. What is the difference? And why is it important for a life coach to help the client deepen their awar ...
