“Unless you tackle and weaken your own internal enemies-we’ll callthem the Saboteurs–they will do their best to rob you of anyimprovements you make. Ignoring your Saboteurs is analogous toplanting a beautiful new garden while leaving voracious snails free to roam.” -Shirzad Chamine: Positive Intelligence Happy January!It’s been awhile! I hope you are well 🙂 How … Read more
“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and preciouslife you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying tolook good and creating the illusion that you have power overcircumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.” -Anne … Read more
Has anyone told you lately that you are doing a good job?Have you told yourself that?In my coaching, I emphasize giving ourselves credit for all the good workthat we do each day.This is an important thing to do when we are trying to live healthy lives fullof compassion and motivation.However, it is one of the … Read more
“A need is life seeking expression within us.”“If we don’t tell people about our needs it is much less likely they willbe met.”-Marshal Rosenberg Happy Fall!Writing a short note to you today to request your help in spreading the wordabout the 9 week self-compassion course I’m co-leading this October. I’d reallyappreciate if you’d check out … Read more
Lesson 2: Striving is often unnecessary and can slow my success I didn’t know how to let it be easy for most of my life.I’m an achiever and have embraced the idea of working hard for my success. Ihave all sorts of imbibed beliefs about hard work and value.Not to say that you can’t go … Read more
Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all thebarriers within yourself that you have built against it. -Rumi You know something is important when you keep encountering it in everybook you read!Over the past month, I’ve been surprised (and not) at how in almost everybook I’ve read, the … Read more
Argh! Sigh Ugh 😛 Sniff Hooray! As human beings we experience more negative emotions than positiveones. Researchers are not set on the exact number of basic emotions butwhomever you ask the majority of them are what we would label asnegative.In one of my favorite movies exploring emotions, Inside Out, the plotrevolves around an 11 year … Read more
The Guest HouseThis being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival.A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor.Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still, treat each guest honorably.He may be clearing you outfor some new delight. The … Read more
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball Dearest Women,I’m writing to you because I know some of you, despite your own brilliance,are harder on yourselves than anyone else could possibly be.Perhaps with the past year of pandemic, … Read more