Love Yourself More
Someone asked me recently how you let go of a bad relationship when you feel you are still in love with the person. This was a hard question for me to answer as it was something I struggled with in...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye
My stepmother, Rosemary, died today after fighting brain cancer for the last four months. Just like when my father died six years ago, I was at work when I got the call, on my lunch break with one...
View ArticleMeditation
I go through periods in my life where meditation is difficult for me. My brain seems too loud to even be able to stop the whirlwind of thoughts. There seems no point to it if I’m just going to feel...
View ArticleAway Values
In coaching you hear a lot about living from your values. It can get a little intense, at times I’ve experienced stress because I wondered if I was actually living according to my values. If you...
View ArticleHeartbreak and Silence
Even a life coach can have a broken heart. Vulnerability is not something I’m good at. I tell others to go for life, experience everything, LIVE to the fullest, but I often fall short of that...
View ArticleWaiting
Someone told me once that if I wanted to do something, then I should start working my way towards it without thinking about the time it will take for me to 'get there'. "The time will pass anyway, "...
View ArticleTaking action
One thing that I learned over the last few years is that your heart and mind don't heal automatically on their own. People say that they do, that it just takes time and one day you'll wake up and feel...
View ArticleWorrying about things that don't matter...
When I was six years old my grandparents bought a farm and 85 acres to go with it in Quincy, Florida. The property had a pond, and three tobacco barns made of gray weathered wood. They tore down two...
View ArticleForgiving Ourselves
When I got divorced several years ago I decided that it would be a positive turning point in my life, a moment that I would look back on and know that my life was split into two parts in that moment,...
View ArticleCleaning As A Way To Recharge
I house sit a lot. I’ve always enjoyed it and did it quite a few times as a teenager for friends that had pets that they didn’t want to board. In my forties, I look at it as a mini vacation despite...
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