A Gentle Tool To Reflect On Your Year
Here we are at the end of a year and a decade, the perfect time to take a few minutes to use a gentle tool to reflect on your year. Perhaps you already journal, practice gratitude, look for the lessons of the past year or create an affirmation or word for the coming year. The tool I’m offering today is a little different than any of those valuable practices, and it can be used by children as well as adults anytime and every day if you like. I can’t take credit for thinking of this tool. I learned it from a friend’s Dad over a game of Bananagrams at Thanksgiving time. (You...
Read More7 Simple Stress Solutions To Try Now — Before A Health Crisis Hits
A woman who had just survived a heart attack recently contacted me. She was wisely reaching out for help to deal with her stress, and she rightly connected a lifetime of it to her current situation. I’m helping her learn to meditate, but I also gave her several other ideas to pursue. I offer these low cost or free ideas to you now, inviting you to implement one or more before a health crisis hits you. At the point of a health crisis, your body is sending you a powerful message. It’s asking you to respond by making changes in your lifestyle. A health crisis is a wake-up call, but...
Read MoreBack To Basics: 10 Spiritual Laws To Remember and Practice
I had a session with a client recently and at one point we were talking about her meditation practice. She’s only been practicing for a short time, but she’s doing it daily and seeing the benefits. However, at this session, she mentioned her difficulty in “getting rid of her thoughts” and “getting her mind to be quiet.” We talked about how this is not really how the mind is built, nor is it a realistic goal of meditation. She said, “Oh, yes, I guess I forgot that,” which I thought was such a sweet and gentle acknowledgement of where she’d...
Read MoreMeet Kaila And Learn From Her Resilience Journey
Today, in Part 3 of this series about resilience, we’ll explore the most critical choice you can make to keep yourself steady, and ready to handle life with grace and patience. You’ll meet Kaila and learn about the challenges she’s mastering as she recovers from a long season of high stress and becomes more resilient. Kaila’s Story Kaila and her husband were thrilled to welcome their first child into the world last year. Born prematurely, their son developed some serious health issues that led to months of long days and sleepless nights. Thankfully, little Daniel is doing much better...
Read MoreHow To Use Your Strengths To Create A Resilient Life
Resilient people don’t shy away from difficult or uncomfortable situations that they know they must deal with to create the life they want. Take Susan for example. She came to me recently to talk about wanting to go from full-time to part-time work as a massage therapist. While she’s clear on her why — more time for travel and family — Susan is anxious about dealing with her client’s reactions when she invites them to move on to other practitioners. There are a lot of nuances to making this sort of transition, but two main areas are involved. The logistics of Susan’s schedule changes and the...
Read MoreI Found A Tick and Other Reasons To Become More Resilient
It’s just a little, little thing, a tick, but, oh, how it focuses the mind. I found a tick on my forearm this past weekend, while I was down in West Virginia. (Or, West By God Virginia, as it’s more rightly called.) The first thing I did, without even thinking, was to start breathing deeply. I felt my belly and my feet. I probably said, “Oh, S#it” a few times, too. Just some things to get over the initial stress reaction. Because you see, I have chronic Lyme disease in my central nervous system, which they didn’t discover until after I’d had it for at least 2 years. So there are still...
Read More12 Reasons To Start The Holistic Life Coaching Certification This Summer
Do people come to you for advice? Do you have bodywork, aromatherapy, or yoga clients and students and want to know how to talk with them about issues in all areas of their life? Are you looking for something to pull together and give structure to everything you offer? Do you want to help people live happier, healthier lives? If you said yes to any of these, you might just be called to train as a life caoch. Here are 12 great reasons to bring together your knowledge, experience, skills, and life purpose to inspire transformation and growth in yourself and others with the Holistic Life...
Read MoreMaking Decisions You’ll Love Tomorrow
Decision making is such a beautiful process in human beings. I’m honored to help people make decisions that they feel good about. Here I’ve collected some ideas and tools that make it easier to be happier with your decisions. Because that’s really what we’re all looking for — not just a decision that we’re happy with in the moment, but a decision that we feel happy with tomorrow and the next day and the next. Warren Buffet’s 10-10-10 Rule Billionaire investor Warren Buffet’s asks three questions before he makes any decision, which he calls the 10/10/10 rule. He asks, “How...
Read MoreHow To Ask For The Next Appointment
Know that feeling of really being in the flow of a great session with a client? You’re connecting on a deep level, breakthroughs are happening, you’re feeling so good about the healing work you do… And then the session ends and it’s time to say goodbye… but you really want them to book another appointment and don’t know how to ask for it. And it gets > A-W-K-W-A-R-D < … Asking for the next appointment doesn’t have to derail the positive flow between you and a client. Here’s how to ask, in a way that doesn’t feel sleazy or salesy. • Summarize and affirm the work and give homework...
Read More4 Simple Practices For Healing The Wounded Heart
It’s that time of year again, when everything is hearts and flowers. Or is it? Does your heart need a little TLC right about now? Let’s talk about healing the wounded heart, which we’ll look at from the perspective of the ancient yogic system of the chakras. The challenges of the heart are love and balance. Located in the center position of the 7 chakras, or energy centers in the body, the heart chakra represents balance between the body and mind, and the material and spiritual aspects of life, meeting in perfect balance in the heart. In creating a strong heart chakra, we’re...
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