It’s been a rough two months, and during it all, I’ve been thinking a lot about caregiving and compassion. By that I don’t just mean simply compassion toward others, as important as that is. I mean compassion toward oneself. In reflecting on this, I’ve begun to believe that guilt in a caregiving situation may be […]
Category Archives: Lessons Learned Along the Way
Compassion, Discernment, Discomfort Series, Finding Your Balance, Finding Your Own Path, Health & Fitness, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
How Do You Treat Yourself When You Fall Down?
15
Dec
Dec
Failures, mistakes, embarrassing fumbles – we’ve all been there. We’ve all found ourselves in that agonizing moment of realizing that we just put our foot in it… or made a thoughtless error… or got rejected… or failed to produce our intended result – or, or, or… the list goes on. These things happen to all […]
Compassion, Discernment, Discomfort Series, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Resilience, Self-Awareness
The Gift of Discomfort
30
Nov
Nov
Have you ever noticed how desperately we as human beings want to make things better for people we care about? I’m thinking of those times when someone we love tells us something that feels painful or defeated or self-critical or stuck. It’s so natural for many of us to jump instantly into soothing or problem-solving […]
Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Finding Your Own Path, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
Setting Healthy Boundaries
15
Nov
Nov
In my last two articles, Finding Time When You’re Too Busy to Breathe and How to Make Choices When Everything Is a Top Priority, we dove into the challenges of finding time for yourself in the midst of a busy schedule full of obligations and important responsibilities and of making conscious choices between competing priorities. […]
Finding Your Balance, Inspiration, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
How to Make Choices When Everything Is a Top Priority
30
Oct
Oct
In my last article, Finding Time When You’re Too Busy to Breathe, we explored how to define our personal goals in a flexible and sustainable way; how to integrate the activities to achieve those goals into an already busy schedule; and the values conflict that can arise when we’re having to make choices between incompatible activities […]
Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Health & Fitness, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Resilience, Self-Awareness
Finding Time When You’re Too Busy to Breathe
15
Oct
Oct
The majority of the coaching clients I work with are juggling numerous roles, projects, demands and priorities. Typically these include things like owning and running a business, being a parent, working a job, birthing a creative or entrepreneurial project, helping a spouse, caring for an aging family member or ailing friend, volunteering their time, and […]
Discernment, Finding Your Own Path, Inspiration, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
Honoring the Shape of Your Own Life Journey
30
Aug
Aug
When it comes to our life journey, where did we get the idea that we have to move through it in a straight line? We’ve all heard the phrase “It’s the journey that matters,” and yet we still persist in judging ourselves based on where we are in that journey relative to our goals: those […]
Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Get Motivated, Health & Fitness, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Self-Awareness
Being Fully Present for Daily Life – The Art of Showing Up
30
Jul
Jul
There’s a phenomenon that takes place when exercising that’s been catching my attention lately. I’m talking about the tendency to be less than fully present for our immediate experience. This can come in a couple different forms. How Absence Emerges Anything that takes us outside ourselves distracts us from the actual experience we’re having – what’s […]
Compassion, Discernment, Finding Your Balance, Finding Your Own Path, Happiness, Inspiration, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Resilience, Self-Awareness
Restorying Your Life
15
Jul
Jul
Have you ever wished that you could live a different life? Or felt tired of the story you were telling about the one you have? When we cast ourselves as a desperate victim, angry instigator, or caterer to everyone else’s whims and needs, we may not realize it, but we quickly wear a groove for […]
Entrepreneurial Spirit, Finding Your Own Path, Get Motivated, Inspiration, Leadership, Lessons Learned Along the Way, Resilience
Creative Thinking: How to Move Forward with Your Ideas
30
Jun
Jun
Whether you are an entrepreneur, an artist, or a community activist or are engaged in solving a family dilemma, you have likely experienced the precarious point where ideas must turn into action. This usually involves the generation and identification of viable options (i.e., creative thinking)…followed by a decision of some sort, whether made by you […]
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