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Thinking Too Much? Disconnection Between Head, Heart, and Gut
In our culture, we place in highest regard that we have superior intellect and that our minds can think our way out of any problem. I see that often in many of my clients, who arrive at their sessions with an excessively active brain, and ideas and thoughts emerge effortlessly from their mouths as they […]
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Finding Balance When Working from Home
The pandemic has had a profound effect on the workplace. Employers shifted to working from home, and now as pandemic restrictions have lifted, working from home in some fashion is here to stay. Clients have noted many benefits to working from home, and some are thriving in it. However, many are finding that while there […]
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How Much Readiness, Willingness, and Capacity for Change Do You Have?
In coaching, we often talk about our clients being ready, willing, and able for change in their lives. When I went through Precision Nutrition’s Level 2 course, they suggested clients rate themselves on these three dimensions to bring awareness to these elements, when considering some change in their lives. Rating scale is one of a […]
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How to Maintain a Workout Program
Many clients ask me to help them establish and maintain a workout program. In my experience and in helping many clients through this desire, I have seen some common reasons why sustaining a workout program can be difficult. However, not to worry – solutions are there for you if you have a better understanding of […]
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Aligning With Your Passions and Purpose is the Secret of Sustainability
Your dharma is your big why, the reason you’re here with all these thoughts, needs, and desires. We were each born with a unique purpose and this human experience is about remembering ours. – Discover Your Dharma, Sahara Rose Many clients come to me wondering why they cannot sustain a habit. They have read all […]
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Change in Position, Change in Scenery
Are you reading this on your computer screen? I bet you are! I bet you haven’t gotten up for the last several hours of Zoom calls all day long. Such is life in the pandemic…! So many clients are wondering how they can stop feeling so drained, leading to fatigue, anxiety, procrastination, lack of motivation […]
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Your Battery is Below Zero
Every week I meet those who are, in normal non-pandemic times, highly functional and capable people. I hear their stories about what has changed between before pandemic and now, and it is filled with overwhelm and stress. Then our conversation moves towards what they want out of coaching and they wonder why they are stuck […]
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Calm Before Positive Shifts and Healing
I came across this research paper by Stephen Porges, et al, titled “Effects of Soft Tissue Mobilization (Rolfing Pelvic Lift) on Parasympathetic Tone in Two Age Groups,” published in the journal Physical Therapy in 1988. The significant finding of this research was that physical therapy was enhanced when a patient’s ventral vagal nerve was activated […]
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Box Breathing for the Busy Brain
Many clients I meet have busy brains. There is so much going on up there; so much processing, so many thoughts, so many things to think about across many dimensions. Many of them know they need relief from this and are seeking help to calm their minds. Given how much has been written about mindfulness […]
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A Brand Called You: Discovering and Aligning With Your True Self
A while back I attended an amazing workshop offered by my mentor coach and teacher, Tijen Genco, called A Brand Called You. She had created it for us beginning coaches so that we could better discover how we could best align our newly birthed coaching businesses with our own beings. After exiting our course, there […]
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The 5 Stages of Becoming an Adult
The other day someone mentioned Adult Developmental Theory. That was so interesting I had to look it up! Googling around, I found these 3 posts on it: How to Be an Adult- Keegan’s Theory of Adult Development – Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I am sure there are many more resources out there, […]
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The Complexity of Human Ailments
A year or so back, I read an excellent book in the area of functional medicine by Neil Nathan called Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness. It was the first time I was introduced to patients who have been suffering for years and often with […]
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Envisioning the Post-Pandemic World
This last weekend I attended a group coaching session to envision the post-pandemic world. It was very insightful and I thought I would share some my insights from the session. Trying to peer into the future while still swimming, or floundering, in the murky waters of the pandemic can be really tough. We might still […]
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The 5 Levels of Healing
Following on some remarks I made in my somatic coaching post regarding the expansion of my repertoire of potential solutions for my clients, I had been thinking about expanding the notion of healing and then happened on this chart from Dietrich Klinghardt’s site, on the 5 Levels of Healing: It summed up perfectly the path […]
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Somatic Coaching from Genco Coaching
Previously, I had mentioned taking a Somatic Coaching course from my long time mentor coach, Tijen Genco. It just ended and I thought I’d post a review of it, as it was excellent and exposed me to a ton of modalities and possibilities. Somatic coaching moves the center of learning from the head into the body, […]
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