I recently was in a session where the client stated they were waiting for a sense of "normalcy," where nothing in their life was happening. They felt that there had been constant events throughout the last year, which wasn't normal. They mentioned the word "stability," waiting to be stable.Often, analogies help my clients to understand …
Self-Love Equals Self-Care
Looking forward into February, there are many different holidays, daily, weekly, and monthly. We observe Black History month, American Heart Month, and others. There’s Presidents’ Day, we get that day off as a bank holiday, Groundhog’s day and that is shared on February 2nd with Self-Renewal day. But noted, there is the most popularly celebrated …
The Good and the Bad
From the book The Women at Brewster Place, author Gloria Naylor writes “yea’ know you can’t keep him running away from things that hurt him. Sometimes, you just gotta stay there and teach him how to go through the bad and good of whatever comes.” This coming from a wise older woman giving advice to …
The Hand We Are Dealt
I once heard Amy Morin, LCSW, being interviewed on a podcast. She posed the following question: How do I live my life based on the hand I was dealt? Something to think about! Photo by Anna Tarazevich on Pexels.com With social comparison, social media and advertising efforts, many people are led to believe they are …
I decided
Ever so often I hear my clients or friends say this phrase, “I don’t have a choice." I’m always stumped by the statement because it seems as though people don’t realize that they always have a choice. When you are faced with adversity, you might not always recognize all the options in front of you …
What I’ve learned in Life Coaching
A letter from a life leader from Learning Leaders Life Coaching. “I realized not too long ago that when I was alone, I was at my best. When I was around him, I would second guess. Wow!! I would shrink, not shine but make myself smaller when in his presence. Like who I was, could …
Leading as a Parent
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com As a parent, there is high level of leadership in a family as we have little ones paying attention to everything we are doing. As they get older, teens notice more of what we do as parents and will point out things they see that may be contrary to what …
Knowing When to Let go
How not to cut the cocoon I was on the phone with a friend of mine who was in the car on the way home with her kids. Once she parked in front of the house, she wanted to continue the conversation so she gave her two children the key to the house so they …
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