Life Coaching Blog

A boundary is a line that marks the limit of an area. (Picture a fence around your house.)  Boundaries establish what behaviors you will accept from others and what behavior…

When Tara was little, I put so much additional stress on myself by trying to manage my family perfectly. As her stepmom, I felt I was under extra scrutiny. "They"…

What would it be like if you had 100% responsibility over your own life?  Amazing, right?  News flash. You do.  The only things you HAVE to do to survive are:…

I watched Oprah + Viola: the Netflix Special Event. Oprah said that she thought she grew up poor until she heard Viola's story of being poor.  I thought this was…

Have you heard Brene Brown's explanation- trust is like a marble jar? If not, you can Google it, but briefly: her daughter's 3rd-grade teacher had a jar where if the…

Even Pema Chödrön recommends we do this in her book, How to Meditate, A Practical Guide to Making Friends With Your Mind. “Decide when you are going to get into…

I met a dear friend for coffee today & one thing I heard her say that rings true for so many of my clients & me is- wanting to feel…

Right when you think things can't possibly get worse, they do.  One of my clients, who is a manager, would just shrug her shoulders at all the changes & think to…

So many of you think you're the only one. But you're not. I hear it from my clients all the time. The worry. The self-doubt. The not being sure. The…

In the last post, we discussed three things we can do with an emotion- resist, react to, or distract from them. Today we're going to talk about feeling & processing…