The world today feels pretty chaotic for many. Are you responding with fear and angst, or with love, compassion and joy? Those who respond with fear, give the other side an advantage.

In order to move forward with grace, it’s important to cultivate self-awareness and intentionality in our reactions. Every challenge we face, whether personal, societal, or global, offers an opportunity to choose our reaction. We need to decide if we let external circumstances dictate our emotions, or if we ground ourselves in values that promote connection and growth?

In the last newsletter, we explored the practice of keeping a positivity journal, a sacred record where only the good things in our lives are noted. The purpose of that exercise is to help retrain your mind to feel more optimistic about life, and to actually recognize and appreciate the positive experiences that are happening in your life.

By capturing moments of joy, gratitude, and success, we train our minds to recognize and attract more positive experiences. Studies have shown that the more we focus on the positive, the more we will revert to a positive outlook, have better relationships, and increase our immune system.

Deciding what you want to call into your life is more constructive than deciding what you want to destroy. When speaking with others, choose to explain how you want to experience the world, rather than what you don’t want to see in the world. Rather than saying what you are against, state what you are for.

If you are planning to join a movement or demonstration, declare what you are FOR, not what you’re against. Follow leaders who envision a world you want to live in, not one that fills you with fear.

When we choose love over fear, we contribute to a world that thrives on kindness rather than division. Compassion allows us to see beyond our own experiences and recognize the shared humanity in others. It’s easy to react in frustration when faced with uncertainty, but taking a moment to pause, reflect, and act with integrity can shift our perspective and influence those around us in positive ways. Intolerance breeds division, while open-mindedness creates space for meaningful dialogue and progress.

What path will you choose to travel?

This has been a difficult election season, and I believe the stress won’t end on election day. However, we can try to control how we choose to be in the world. Below are some suggestions that I invite you to consider, and hope that I can be mindful of these reminders during the next however long. [Read more…]

My clients have found Tarot can be a powerful tool for personal growth and transformation during the coaching experience. Before reading the cards, I call on the angels and guides to use Tarot to help us find the path to the change the client is seeking. I call on the angels and guides because we ALL have our own guides, and their single purpose is to help each of us [Read more…]

Very often a life coach or therapist discovers several clients have the same, or similar, issues at the same time. Actually, if you consider the universal energies from numerology or planet alignment, that makes sense because the universal energy will bring up related concerns for different people.

Recently, a few of my clients have been dealing with issues related to the way they were treated as a child. The messages sent to children last a life time. It’s often sad to think that what a 3, 7, or 12 year old hears or feels affects the actions and self-concept of a 30, 40, or 60 year old adult.

This is an issue that has come up for me in the past, and the following is a simple exercise I gave myself to help me get past the feeling of not being good enough or smart enough. I share this with you from my child as well as my adult.

Exercise: Find a picture of yourself as a child and place it where you can see it. As an adult, review the positive, and only positive, things you have achieved in your life. Did you make it through school? Have you had a healthy relationship, or have you removed yourself from an unhealthy relationship? Have you had a job you feel you excelled at? Do you have hobbies that give you great joy? Do you have good friends? If you aren’t sure of the positive elements in your life, ask a friend to help you identify them.

List the accomplishments you have had in your life, and share them with that little person in the photo. As you share them, assure that little girl her life will be all right. Love that little person, and give her the support that she needed in real time when she was small and not in control of anything in her life. Love her more, and support her again.

If there are still changes you want to make in your life, assure the little girl that you are now strong enough to make those changes. Then, as the adult, begin a list of the changes you want to make and start that journey. Get help if you feel you need that. You are alive, and you are in charge of many aspects of your life. Celebrate who you have become because you are worth it!

Very often a life coach or therapist discovers several clients have the same, or similar, issues at the same time. Actually, if you consider the universal energies from numerology or planet alignment, that makes sense because the universal energy will bring up related concerns for different people. [Read more…]

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