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Into the Divide: How to Be Kind to Yourself
As much as it is important to look at how we can come together within our families and communities, it is equally important to look at how to align within ourselves. One of my clients recently commented that after doing the work within themselves (inner work), they...
Into the Divide – What Brings Us Together
Heading into the holiday season it feels like a good time to look at how we can be kind to each other, honor each other, and get along more easily. As I’ve read social media posts and listened to conversations, it is difficult to miss the divisiveness that lives...
Not Good Enough – Uniquely You
I was listening to a conference recently and one of the sessions was about the often discussed thread of “not good enough”. I was struck by something the speaker said when describing an experience she had before writing her first book. When someone casually suggested...
Not Good Enough – Perpetuating a Myth
I recently had a conversation with someone about a completed project. During the conversation, a comparison was made between the project and an outcome it was never meant to achieve. In that moment, I had a clear insight into how someone can create or perpetuate an...
Choice – Impossible Choices
At times we have a single option, while at other times we have too many, making it difficult to decide among them. We hear stories about individuals who have to choose between paying their rent and buying food or those who have to make a life and death decision very...
Choice – A Core of Transformation
It seems that choice is a word frequently in use - even more so these days - as we get closer to the election and hear the criteria people use to make their personal choice. Choice is one of the core concepts in transformational work. I realized that all of the...
Cause and Effect – One Thing Leads to Another
During a recent presentation, I asked the audience If someone remarries, is their first spouse part of the family lineage or not? The responses were a mixture of yes, no, and yes, if there are children involved. The answer is yes. The first spouse is part of that...
Cause and Effect – A Reverberating Gift
Throughout my years of personal transformational work and trainings, the approach of family constellations has uncovered many amazing insights and created profound change. A recent experience highlighted for me, not only the importance of this work but how the system...
Tending Your Personal Landscape – What Digging into The Landscape May Reveal
While we all have heard the importance of taking care of our physical bodies, my experience is there is less focus on other aspects of our personal landscape.
Tending Your Personal Landscape – What is a Personal Landscape?
Earlier this year, the Program Chair for the Raleigh Chapter of the International Coach Federation asked me to be the theme coordinator for the Q3 programs. The Board selected themes for each quarter and with the third quarter’s focus on Tending Your Personal Landscape, she felt that aligned well with my background and interest.
Finding the Good – Revealing the Hidden Lesson
For a long time, I was challenged to see the good in things that happened to me growing up. How could the way certain people treated me possibly contain anything positive? The traumas, the being excluded, feeling deep fear and like I was never enough – these experiences felt overwhelmingly negative without an ounce of positive in the mix.
Finding the Good – What Generalizations Leave Out
One of my grade school teachers recommended that we refrain from using words like never, always, forever, everyone, and no one. While I don’t remember the name of the teacher, I clearly remember what she said.