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  • “I Feel Burned Out”

    “I Feel Burned Out”

    Does this resonate with your state of being right now? This article just came across my feeds: Worker burnout hits high worse than COVID-19 peak: survey That workers are feeling more burned out than pre-pandemic, 42% now versus 38% a year ago. Is that surprising to anyone reading this? With recent economic woes and layoffs…

  • What’s Emotion Got to Do With Habits?

    What’s Emotion Got to Do With Habits?

    Following on my Habits Don’t Work post, I’d like to share something that can really help you sustain any kind of pattern in your life. You just need to add emotion to it. How many times have you tried to sustain a pattern without working with emotions? Were you successful? Emotions can reinforce patterns exponentially.…

  • When Therapy Doesn’t Work

    When Therapy Doesn’t Work

    I hear this a lot from my clients. That they went to therapy for years but didn’t experience any worthwhile resolutions. Does this sound familiar to you? This is not to say that therapy never works; but it does bring up the question of what is going on here. The field of therapy is very…

  • Living a Psychologically Rich Life

    Living a Psychologically Rich Life

    Searching for happiness or meaning in life? How about a psychologically rich life? In many of my clients, they tell me they have no purpose in their work or life. This is related to the happiness they feel, which at the moment is not present. There are a number of ways that I coach clients…

  • I Am Wasting My Potential Right Here and Now

    I Am Wasting My Potential Right Here and Now

    I hear this often in my clients. Every day is a grind.No feeling of purpose.No growth.No connection with whatever they are doing. That they are tossing their days into the trash can of life. That where they are now feels so wrong, and a sense that they were made for more in this world. More…

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  • Let’s Talk About Love

    Let’s Talk About Love

    LOVE. But not romantic love. Loving YOURSELF. It’s a concept that is simple but yet for many, self love does not come easy. I’ve had many clients come to me about some initial problem, and after some inquiry it boils down to a deep inability to love themselves just the way they are now. It’s…

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  • Does Your Body React to An Uncomfortable Memory?

    Does Your Body React to An Uncomfortable Memory?

    Last week I had a client who arrived at our session with anxiety at work. After some coaching inquiry, it was revealed that in his previous job, his manager gave him some serious negative grief over missing his sales numbers. Apparently his manager was a student of negative reinforcement and proceeded to make his life…

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  • Reading the News is Taking Your Health Away

    Reading the News is Taking Your Health Away

    This doesn’t come as a surprise: ‘News addiction’ can cause stress, anxiety, study says – ASU News It just validates what we already intuitively knew. Having our noses in our smartphones, endlessly scrolling through negative headlines of our news apps and social media feeds takes our health away. We are: Fearful of the future.Looking at…

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  • Keepin’ It Simple in Nutrition Coaching

    Keepin’ It Simple in Nutrition Coaching

    When I nutrition coach, I like to keep things simple. So many people complicate things from the beginning. They start taking huge swaths of food and removing them. They take on the huge effort of measuring food and tracking. They start following all the popular diets and cycle through them wondering if and when it…

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  • “All of Me is Welcome”

    “All of Me is Welcome”

    “All of me is welcome” Close your eyes, and whisper it to yourself. What comes up for you? What does it evoke inside you and in your feelings? I encountered this phrase in my Shamanic Reiki training. It is an invocation that we use in some of our meditations. It’s probably one of the most…

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  • Have You Scanned Your Body Lately?

    Have You Scanned Your Body Lately?

    One of the great elements of somatic coaching is helping people get more in tune with what is happening within their bodies. Why might you want to do that? Simply put, to become more aware of what is happening within, and how the body reacts to certain stimuli from our environment. It’s often information that…

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  • Do We Really Need to Make Everything About Warfare?

    Do We Really Need to Make Everything About Warfare?

    In today’s workplace, and even in our lives, there is so much conflict, so many adversarial relationships, and not enough collaborating, connecting, and even kindness towards one another. The language we use reflects not only our inner nature, but also continues the cycle of whatever we express. Do we want to live in a world…

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  • Habits Don’t Work

    Habits Don’t Work

    Many of my clients come to me asking for help on their habits. But yet they are having a lot of trouble building and sustaining habits. What is going on here? The habit gurus out there would have you think that habits are all you need to transform your life. Just keep at it consistently…

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  • Feeling Lost?

    Feeling Lost?

    “Unable to find one’s way”“Very confused or insecure or in great difficulties”“Denoting something that has been taken away or cannot be recovered”“Time and opportunity not used advantageously; wasted” When I looked up ‘lost’, I found these in the Oxford Language dictionary online. So well stated too – how many of these apply to you right…

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  • Got Tiger Mom?

    Got Tiger Mom?

    Many years ago, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua came out. It coined the phrase “Tiger Mom” and forever attached that term to Asian Americans and their parents who seemed driven to ensure that their kids would excel. Growing up, I was in the middle of a Tiger Mom jungle. It showed…

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