COURAGE — By now we all have heard some variation of this definition: Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability triumph over it (Nelson Mandela). COURAGE is that act of will that pushes us forward in spite of fear. So as leaders, we are often the…
It was 4am and, once again, I was lying wake in bed with my 7month old infant son at my breast for the third feeding of he night and I was thinking, am I doing enough? I had failed at trying to get him (and me) to sleep through the…
Here’s another fun conundrum that showed up in a coaching session with a client. Tell me if this seems familiar to you: You recognize that you’re not fully satisfied with what’s going on in your career, your relationships, your life. You hire a coach (that’s me by the way). Together,…
Resilience is just one of those topics that is so important, and yet it keeps coming up. Why? Because we NEED it. We need to invest in self care, build our capacity for resilience, so that we can pull out of reactive and live from center – the core of…
“But I have no idea how to change. I’ve been doing this for so long!” Have you said this? It comes up a lot in coaching and when it does it usually means it is definitely, really, absolutely time to change. But it’s time to do it differently. It’s time…
View image | gettyimages.com Both coaching and counseling are professional relationships that can support couples at various points in a relationship. Both focus on enhancing communication, trust, and intimacy. So, when do you need a relationship coach and when do you need a couples counselor or therapist? The difference between…
I stumbled upon this article the other day: 64 Positive Things to Say to Kids and I thought it was pleasant but something of a half truth. The tag line for it was “Because our words become their inner voice [sic]…” Is that true? Do our words root themselves into our children’s…
If you’ve been following any of my ontological musings, you know that our language is directly tied to the way we see the world and the way we see the world affects our possibilities in the world. In coaching we talk about our inner monologues a lot — the little…
We can all at times succumb to a feeling of being the victim of circumstances. This is usually wh en we feel like everything is happening TO us or AT us, we experience a loss of control, or we just find that we are waiting for things to happen. As…
Over the last few months we’ve been talking about resilience. We’ve talked about what it is: the ability to bounce back or maintain our powerful center in the face of unexpected change. We’ve talked about what it feels like in our bodies. And we’ve talked about how we care for…
