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Many times, clients will come into my practice and, though they don’t know each other, there will be the same general issue going on with all of them. Sometimes the main problem is lack of faith in themselves, or unresolved anger from the past, or spiritual malaise. During one patch of time in 2011, the trend was repeat heartbreak from choosing crappy partners. Both the guys and the girls in my practice seemed to be struggling with this. One Saturday I sat down and thought,”If I could give them …

Thomas J. Leonard was my very first coaching mentor. I happened upon his work when I was researching the option of becoming a virtual assistant back in 2002. After participating in the CoachU community for over a year, I decided that my path was to be a life coach/healer. Thank you Thomas Leonard! : )

Thomas had a knack for simplifying distinctions so that anyone – especially the beginner – could understand and apply the tools. I adored him for that. He wrote the following article about …

 
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.

She let go of the fear.  She let go of the judgments.  She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.  She let go of the committee of indecision within her.  She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.

She didn’t ask anyone for advice. She didn’t read a book on how to let go.  She …

I’m participating in Shaytember and working on a personal goal to run 10 miles by Thanksgiving. This is going to be quite a feat, given that I have just been able to reach the one mile mark, huffing, puffing, lungs exploding. There is a special reason why I’m taking on this personal conquest. I explain here (Make a dream happen by picking a bigger problem).

Each day in September I am running 1 mile to prepare myself habitually to run and train in …

So I wasn’t gonna post a video until October, when I hopefully felt more confident. But I woke up this morning and said eff it-I’m doing it today. ) haha!

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A love affair imparts adventure, not merely because it is unsanctioned and risky, but because it proceeds on part-knowledge, like all creative endeavor. And it is risked because the longing to find home is one of the sharpest hungers a human can know. For this a man gives up an empire and sails the open sea….
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Part of falling in love is the heady blend of familiarity and strangeness. Here is someone at once so like you that you have come home, and yet so different …

This is what life does. It throws its arm around you when your pregnant with your first kid and says “Hey Sugar. I know you’re all concerned with your swollen ankles and stuff, but we’ve got bigger fish to fry.” With only 8 weeks of pregnancy to go, I got this sudden, gut intuitive hit that I should go au naturel with my birth. Epidural-free.

Crazy, I know. It seemed preposterous to me too. I was not a “granola type.” I was deathly afraid of pain and had no idea …

Some time ago, in the middle of the night, I landed in New York. I had 2 suitcases, a twenty dollar bill, some credit cards, and a high school diploma procured in the eighties. I didn’t know a soul, except for the nice recruiter man who had promised me a job interview Monday morning.

This is a (sorta) cool story for a freshly sprung college grad in their twenties. But I wasn’t. I was a 40-year-old single woman with three teenagers, starting over. And …

Last June I decided to take a year off from dating and romantic relationships. It was one of the most ballsy, scary decisions I’ve ever made, but after spending my entire adult life either married or in relationships, I knew that I had to do something radical in order to bust out of the pattern I was in and learn something new about myself.

A yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Oh yeah. I went cold turkey. After the first few rocky months of love detox and hugging my cat a …

I love this from Tony Robbins:

Love is so important. We want to give and receive love, and we want it to be healthy. We want to be in life-long relationships where problems get worked out, communication fosters intimacy, and our sexual desires are met. This is all good stuff.

We live in a time of self-improvement and expanded human potential. If you are a woman, you have been reading articles about how to improve this and enhance that since you were a teenager. And right after our bodies, the target for improvement has been our …

“To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
-Newton’s third law of motion

SO. I’m humming along through January like all you guys, full of ideas and new projects, and the third law of motion is starting to show up. The push-back.

This causes an emotional reaction, because it feels like I’m being stopped. When resistance shows up, it can feel like your goal is too hard, ill-conceived, or ultimately going to fail.

The belief that we are being stopped by outside forces is …

 
This is #7 in the series: 5 Daily Questions

Why are the 5 daily questions important? I wrote about that here.

Every once in a while, I’ll take a break from my writing the Daily Note Card to give you guys a piece of music or art that I find exquisite. I have been receiving a lot of mail lately about the topic of fresh starts. Many of you are trying to move on after a hellish 2011. Or a heart break. Or a haunted past that keeps whispering in your ear.

I found something for you.

Regrets collect like old friends

Here to relive your darkest moments

I can see no way, I can see no way

And all of …