Hello, dear friends. I hope you are all finding health and happiness these days, and are in touch with all the ways that you stay grounded and empowered in the world. There are a lot of people who are feeling deeply challenged by these modern times, but today I’d like to specifically address the LGBTQIA+ community and [...]
Here we are, my friends, officially in 2025. I hope it has been, thus far for you, a time of re-gathering, re-grounding, and rejuvenating. I invite you to take good care of yourselves this coming year; you are the source of all your power, and that requires nourishment! What might that look like for you? Does it [...]
Hello, dear friends, and happy September to you! Does this time of year find you in the throes of back-to-school? Are you freshly back from travels? Or perhaps the shift out of summer simply means a continuation of your work, whatever work that may be? No matter what your situation, I hope you find yourself in a [...]
Well, dear friends, here we are at the beginning of August 2024, and it’s not new news to anyone that our political future is in a state of deep uncertainty. I mean, really, we’re steeped in this reality, and it’s awfully hard to get away from it. In that sense I apologize for bringing it up here, [...]
Happy July, everyone! It’s officially time for summer fruits, hot weather, and possibly some summer getaways. And for many recent graduates, it’s also time to think about getting jobs. Be they career jobs, summer jobs, or exploratory jobs, I know several people who are turning their attention toward this topic. Two of these people are my nephews, [...]
I was sitting in the middle school library at my son’s school earlier this week for a very informative meeting, and I became completely distracted by something I saw posted on the wall. It was clearly applicable to the lives of the students, but as a coach, I was really tickled to see how applicable it is [...]
This is a guest post from Linda Chase who is joining me at Nurture Life Coaching to offer resume writing and consultations and interview preparation! I'm excited to send clients to her once they have identified what they want in their career transition. She can help close the deal! You can find out more about her here. [...]
Most life and career coaching clients come to me because they want to solve a problem. They are willing to pay for expert support because they have tried everything on their own: read all the books, talked to friends and family, analyzed and over analyzed, consulted psychics/astrologers, prayed a lot, taken online tests...you get the picture. Maybe [...]
As a life coach for women, the month of January always brings the conversation of New Years Intentions. I prefer the word intention to resolution for a few reasons: Intentions are more flexible and adaptable. Resolutions carry the pressure of performance and obligation. And, our culture is just too fixated on the usual suspects when it comes [...]
This week I received an email from a discouraged career coaching client who didn't get the job. From her words, I could feel all the self-criticism and hopelessness that she was feeling. I am sharing with you my email pep talk because it applies to you (and me) too when things don't go the way we had planned. "YOU [...]
I have a favorite exercise from the wise Martha Beck that I like to use with clients to help them gain more clarity around decision making. Martha calls it the "Shackles On, Shackles Off" exercise. Here is my personal adaption: 1. Bring a memory to mind of a person, experience or place that makes you feel relaxed [...]
I’ve done a lot of scary things in my life, especially when I was younger and didn’t realize the risks I was taking. As we grow older, we take on a new relationship with risk. We begin to analyze more, make “better” choices, and think twice before doing things outside of our comfort zone. The funny thing [...]
By Zohar Manor-Abel, shared via Flickr To begin 2014, I have a simple question for you: Who do you want to be this year? You, like me and everyone else I have met so far, have many different selves inside. It is almost like we have an inner choir of voices, often singing in different keys. You [...]
A couple of years ago, I completed a two-year intensive training in Hakomi Therapy with the META Institute. The most recent research in neurobiology shows that mindfulness-based therapy is very effective for long term sustainable change. My life and career coaching clients come to me for one primary reason: They are ready for Change! This recent article [...]
Since the recession, I have had more career coaching clients come into my practice even though I have always thought of myself as a life coach. It seems that the economy crashing encouraged people, even ones who still had fairly secure jobs, to question how they were investing so many of the precious moments of their lives. [...]
