I recently hired a new coach. We’ve worked together several times so far, and I’m really enjoying our process because she offers new insights into the way the world perceives me that I hadn’t previously realized and she relates to me as the greatest version of myself. I’ve heard people …
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The 3 Pieces of a Traumatic Event
Expectations and perceptions are so important. They can lift us up or hold us back, and we’re creating them all the time as we go through life. I talk to my clients a lot about specific events that have affected their perceptions and expectations of themselves and the world around …
Celebrate Your Strengths
Through my work with female entrepreneurs, it’s not uncommon to discover an underlying sense of “stuck” in any particular area. The feeling of being “stuck” is something to which everyone can relate at some point in their life; it’s the sense that you don’t know what to do next, how …
Stop Running from Your Own Success
For most of us, the thing we’re running from is almost always the pathway to our biggest growth and the doorway to deeper peace. Gaining perspective on what’s blocking your way to success can be difficult and it’s normal for some unpleasant stuff to come up along the way. When …
You Can’t Grow a Successful Business Without Continuing to Grow Yourself
Many of us have this idea that at some point we’ll “figure it all out” and be on a trajectory that only goes upwards. Unfortunately, that’s just not realistic. No matter where we are in life, we’ll always hit challenging moments. It’s through those challenges that we experience growth. You …
Honor Yourself and What You’ve Created
As entrepreneurs, it’s so easy for us to think that everyone knows what we know and that what seems basic to us is basic to our clients. We lose sight of the natural gifts we possess or exactly how much time and energy we’ve put into becoming the best at …
Connect with Your Ability to Persevere
A few years ago I read a story about a fifteen-year-old who had developed a test for pancreatic cancer. This teenage scientist wrote to 200 professors asking for laboratory time so he could develop his idea. 199 of those professors either outright rejected him or ignored his request. For one …
It’s Not About You, It’s About the Fit
One of my clients recently started reassembling her team after letting a few people go. Because of the work we’d been doing together and the work she’d been doing on her own to clear out and understand her old ways of operating, she was able to see that these people …
Just Because You Feel It Doesn’t Mean It’s the “Capital T” Truth
One of my clients said something during a recent session that really struck me. He told me that he was finding himself moving away from his routine of safely doing what needs to be done to get what he needs to have. Instead, he said, he was starting to allow …
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Reconnecting to Your Dreams
My oldest daughter was very premature. Because of how early she was, she was at risk of developing a condition called Retinopathy of Prematurity, in which the blood vessels of the retina are not fully developed and have a tendency to grow in a circle instead of expanding out to …