It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.—Maya Angelou – American Poet 1928-2014 We underwent a home renovation and like most, it was horrendous to live through. During the process, we had a small fire, a flood, and the entire interior of the house was painted a hideously wrong...Read More

[gdlr_space height=”20px”]Last Fall I received a call from a young mother, LW, who was given 6 months of wellness coaching as a gift. She wanted to be a size 12, she felt sad, overwhelmed, and was very fearful about her and her family’s future. Having been overweight all her life, she had never had a...Read More

Its Always Hard to Leave Home: The Challenge of Change Change always comes bearing gifts. —Price Pritchett, PhD Change Management Expert Five months into the “New” year how many of us have broken promises to ourselves? New research suggests that it is not due to inertia, laziness or lack of willpower. Harvard professors Kegan and...Read More

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. —Viktor Frankl Besieged at every turn with stress, work, family, and traffic? Ambushed by the emotional wake of others or a toxic food environment? Have you tried to...Read More

Vulnerability (latin wounding first known use 1605) No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis When we are going through an exceptionally hard time in our life, we may find it irritating or insensitive to hear about the tenants of positive psychology. The full experiencing of grief makes us...Read More

Worry is a Choice Worry: wor·ry ˈwərē/ old English- to strangulate To worry is to feel troubled and uneasy, true fear is a gift, unwarranted fear is a curse and misuse of imagination. —Gavin De Becker, author the Gift of Fear An excessive degree of worry impacts our health and well-being. Many of us latch...Read More

The Anti- New Years Resolution Does your New Year’s resolution look like this? Of the 45% of Americans that make resolutions, only 8% achieve their goals. This bleak picture may stem from not applying proven methods in human change science. In order to avoid magical thinking on setting New Year’s goals, the strategy of mental...Read More

Clearing Clutter* to Honor the Self Clutter (noun) \ˈklə-tər\ middle English first used in 1556, Cloterne: Clot We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. —Tao Te Ching There is a link between a disorganized home or office and the messy thoughts that can muddle well-being....Read More

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. —Simone de Beauvoir The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology went to scientists who discovered the intelligence of cells was not its nucleus, but its membrane. The cell membrane, it turns out, is the “brains” of the cell and is fully in charge of how...Read More

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. —Rumi Almost universally, when a person is feeling overwhelmed in life, it is due to the tragic expression of unmet needs. We are all dealing with the demands to do more with less, we have multiple, and sometimes conflicting roles (parenting...Read More