Coaching
What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?
The holidays are over. The parties are over. The vacation is over. It’s the first week of the New Year, so let the resolutions begin! Whether it is losing weight, getting healthier, finding love, getting a new job, or some other kind of change. But here’s the thing, I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions!…
How Was Your 2023?
As this year comes to an end, it is natural to look forward to the upcoming new year. The promise of a fresh start. But if we have had any hardships over the past year, our focus can easily go to the things that went wrong. We tend to chalk it all up as a “bad year.”…
Are You Hypervigilant?
When I was growing up, anytime someone shared a piece of good news, someone in my family would always say, “Knock wood.” It was a superstition that dominated many cultures, but the implication was that if something good happened, you shouldn’t celebrate, say it out loud, or tempt fate WITHOUT protecting yourself. In other words,…
Are You Living Your Life On Purpose?
At the age of 35, I was a television executive, a wife, and a mother of two children under the age of five. I made a good living, had a nice home, and even had a fancy car. But with those privileges came a lot of responsibilities. I had tremendous stress in my job, a mortgage, car payments, lots of…
Are You Throwing In The Towel In December?
Well well well or Ho Ho Ho, it’s already December! And that means we are wrapping up the year and getting ready for the last leg of the holiday season. I know many people love this time of year. They look forward to the decorations, the lights, the food, the shopping, the parties, seeing family, and possibly…
The 5 Types of Perfectionists
I don’t know about you, but the holidays really bring out my inner perfectionist. I am not even making Thanksgiving dinner this year, thanks to my brother David who will be hosting it again. But in years past when I did host it, I would always wake up in the morning with body aches… like…
The Importance of Taking a Break
When I was younger and working a million hours a week in a corporate job, I lived for going on vacation. But as I got older and “built a life I don’t need a vacation from,” I have become much more of a homebody. I love my routines, my home, and my career as a Life Coach.…
Do You Focus on Criticism or Compliments?
Why is it when ONE person makes a negative comment about us, it becomes the ONLY thing we focus on? No matter how many compliments we might get on a new outfit, a new haircut, or a job well done, we tend to only pay attention to that one criticism rather than the dozens of accolades. What is up with…
New Day. New Month. New Possibilities.
A friend of mine would often joke, “Now that Halloween is over, there are only 3 days left in the year: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve.” Earlier this week, I was shopping in Target and Costco, and everything was full-blown Christmas decor. They didn’t even wait for Halloween to be over, and they completely skipped Thanksgiving. If…
Radical Acceptance
For those of you who have known me for a long time, you know how much I have resisted my curly (frizzy) hair. It has been a lifelong battle of blow drying, flat ironing, deep conditioning, Japanese straighteners, and Brazilian Blowouts. Don’t even get me started on the amount of time and money wasted on…
