Articles to Inspire
Are your survival skills keeping you from thriving?
As Life unfolds, we build up very useful survival skills.Thank goodness, we do. So we can survive a lot a circumstances, horrendous, traumatic, or just slowly spirit eroding ones…Our beautiful brain is constantly reshaping itself to adapt and integrate new data, new environment, new situations and so forth. From birth to death, our brain is
Life-changing agreements
A little while ago, in the course of a deep conversation with a coaching client of mine, we were contemplating the life changing habit of creating agreements vs having expectations, in ANY form of relationship. Seeing my client’s reaction to our exploration prompted me to share this with you. Choosing deliberately to create agreements is
Coherence as a tool for growth
No matter what we are after, we’ll get it best by being coherent on a daily basis.By that I mean that my daily choices, actions, words, intentions and ordinary behaviors have to be coherent with my purpose. And on a deeper level, my purpose has to be aligned with my core values.Seems pretty straight forward,
The full Monty
Here is something I’d love to share, because if you are at all like me (a human being living in the 21st century I mean), it might really resonate one day and be the hinge on which you’ll swing the door to a crazy good life. Many recipes, remedies, techniques, brightly promise to fix various
Dare being seen in all your glory!
Dear one, A couple days ago a coaching conversation got me all fired up on a subject particularly close to my heart and I thought I’d share my thoughts with you… In our world full of shiny objects it’s amazing how reluctant most of us are to beam out own brightness into the world at
The wind under our wings
Do you want more? More happiness, more peace, more money, more friends, more love… more freedom? More justice in the world? More respect for women? More sanity, more kindness, more whales, more clean air ? It is in our very nature to want growth, to reach out, to hope, to long for… No matter where
Berfriending what is
Any of us can remember a day recent or not when “bad news” punched us in the stomach out of nowhere. Unexpected death of a dear one, drab diagnosis at the doctor’s office, loss of a family supporting job, dismissal from a partner, or less dramatic but much disruptive news, mishaps or accidents, they are
Co-creation
We all have stories.Because we all have history. And we tend to take our stories (and oh! how they become well crafted with repetition) and use them as shields between us and the world. Between us and success, between us and growth. Between us and health. We identify to the person in the story (as
5 foolproof steps to have a good day
Most people (of which I was for a long time) start their day mindlessly and let outside circumstances have their way with them, merely living in reaction to whatever presents itself. There is a much better way: we can elevate greatly the quality of our entire life with a few simple daily practices that makes
Compassion vs depletion
While looking for the good in everything and practicing happiness from the inside out, I often come across people who feel depressed and defeated or angry and belligerent, by reaction to the state of the world around us and I remember that a long time ago I used to feel that way… From a dispirited
Wholeness in the face of circumstances
We are bigger than our circumstances. Resilience is what makes us stay the course and break through when most have given up. What keeps the athlete get back up up and finish the race. The grits to believe in betterment and solutions. Faith in being bigger than any circumstance. Resilience is the difference between breaking
The things we take for granted
The things we take for granted… As the first month of this year unfolded, and it seemed with great velocity, I found myself faced with a few unexpected challenges, one being a brutal cold that put me in bed with fever, for several days, weak as a kitten… I am very rarely sick and this