Wanting More in Life

Do you have that restless feeling of wanting more?  Most of us experience that in our lives. Seeing someone in need may provoke your feelings of wanting to serve more – to find the time to volunteer. Feeling lonely may provoke you to want more connections with people, to build your friendship base. Being with someone who is dying may provoke us to wanting more presence in our lives. To find a way to live a life of awareness,...

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Do You Feel Light?

Sometimes we let life and all we have to do bog us down. Because I actually like to learn and to have a to do list, I can recognize that I haven’t laughed in a while when my head is down and I am producing. Life needs to have lots of humour and at least some spontaneity. We need connection with others to feel light. Enthusiasm for and with others helps to make everything go better. Knowing what gives you meaning and knowing your very...

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Moving Relationship Challenges to Personal Strengths

We have all noticed the changes in our society in the way in which we interact with each other. For those who want to live above the norm, we can understand that the pendulum has swung from the Victorian era to now where children were seen and not heard to the place where children are known to regularly aggressively swear at their parents and even worse. From children to adults, relationships regularly break down. It is very hard to...

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Therapy vs. Coaching

Because I have a long history as a psychotherapist, I find one of the questions people ask me most is, ‘what is the difference between coaching and therapy?’. There are certainly many similarities as there are in a lot of helping professions. The people who come to both professions want change for the better in their lives. The field of therapy is much broader then it has been in the past and so you can encounter...

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Learning

How fun to learn. I just got back from my re-certification of High Performance Coaching (have to re-certify every 2 years). There was beauty everywhere in the hotel. It was in the warm climate of Arizona and I went with a friend. It is so good to have a long time, very special friend on the same journey as you are so that you can share the learning. Socializing adds to the learning for me and cements it all in with fun. We went to the...

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