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Do you really know deep in your bones that you – and only you – get to choose what your life is about?
A client of mine, in the corporate world as well as being a mother, realized that her high expectations of her mate kept intimacy at bay when she tried to get him to behave differently. [...]

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My invitation to you is to consciously spend time today observing the thoughts that pass through your mind. What do you notice?
How much of your thoughts  are focussed on expectations or desires?  How common are the phrases “I wish” or “if only” as you pay attention to thought?  In other words, how often do you [...]

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For many of the clients who I’ve been privileged to coach responsibility meant over-responsibility, in actuality. What I mean by this is that their openness to question and address what their part is in any relationship dynamic is in the ballpark of self-responsibility…and inner confidence. When responsibility was taken for the other person’s part as [...]

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Do you live your life like you are constantly  ’saving for a rainy day’?  Do you put off activities that you would love until some time in the future – who knows when?  Do you keep putting yourself on hold in subtle and not so subtle ways?
This can be a common habit – one that [...]

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Actively trying and striving to ‘make’ something happen can stop true creativity in its tracks. Spending conscious time in stillness plants the seeds for creativity to emerge. Easily. Fluidly. When a client and myself enter the stillness of our true nature, insights and new ideas burst forth in a way that is very different from those [...]

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Here in my part of the world, it’s summer. Spending time outdoors in nature is a must at this time of year, at least for me, as everything is so lush and green and fresh. All the wonderful colours of flowers and shades of green. The warmth of the light. Little animals darting in and [...]

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Anger is a feeling that is or has been a challenge for most of us to accept and express in healthy ways. Collectively, there seems to be lots of messages that we receive about anger being ‘bad’ or ‘negative’ or ‘wrong’.
The reality is that we all know that acting out anger can cause problems in [...]

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When you’re in the process of transition, particularly a major transition, there arises an opportunity to claim your own life at another level. It’s during these times of change that we get to honestly look at all the areas that aren’t working for us. It’s during these times that we get to set new boundaries, [...]

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In today’s world, we are all challenged to consistently open ourselves to learning something new. Life requires this from all of us. New technology, changing weather, a shifting economy, new careers or the upgrading of current ones, staying healthy, adjusting to the natural transitions of aging – the list of what is there for us [...]

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When you hear the words “the same old over and over” or “Here we go again”, what do you think of? Is it an old habit that you don’t like? Over and over feelings that cause pain? A part of your life that you wish would change? A dynamic in a relationship that you want [...]

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