How Nourished Are You?
What feeds me - what nourishes me? This is an excellent question to have in your toolbox. So often, we forget to ask ourselves this question. We forget to check in to make sure the answers haven’t changed. This magical question is actually one that is extremely useful in two...
Are You Truly Listening?
Learning to TRULY listen to ourselves can take a bit of practice. With our busy lives and all the information and stimuli that is constantly coming in, there is often SO much noise - in the form of 'shoulds', of unwanted thoughts that don't serve us, of other people's voices...
Are You Committed or Feeling Obligated?
Every once in a while, it is an excellent idea to step back and reflect on what you are truly committed to in your life. Take a moment, now, to think about what is most important to you. Is it family, a passion, a certain relationship, a hobby, connecting with...
3 Questions to Lead You Back to Powerful You
So, you're moving along your day and everything is fine, maybe even much better than fine. Then, something happens. It might be a comment from someone, a phone call, a situation that arises or even something that you hear on the news. Suddenly it's like a little button is pushed...
Where did You go?
A client of mine, let's call her Lucy, and I were recently having a discussion about putting some more activities in her weekly schedule that would add to her overall well-being. These were things that would give her more energy and would both give her joy AND ultimately bring her...
Do You Practice TRUE Self-Care?
Recently I've been using strong language when it comes to Self-Care - talking about an epidemic of over-committed, over-worked, over-giving people (mostly women) & saying we need a Self-Care Revolution. Sounds a bit dramatic, perhaps, but I think we need to really look at the current situation. You hear the...
Are You Living Your Artful Journey?
A while back an author friend mine, Sally Wolfe, came up with a title for my coaching work & the product line I've created. Sally is an accomplished copywriter as well so when she got off on this tangent while we were casually having coffee one day, I was very...
Where’s Your REAL Focus?
There was a time that all I focused on was my weight. People who didn't know me then often find this surprising. Looking back, I see it as a very unhealthy obsession rooted much deeper than simply the extra 30 - 40 pounds that attached themselves to me and seemed...
3 Behaviors That Might Be Scaring Off the Clarity You’re Looking For
As summer is coming to a close (at least month-wise although not weather-wise for most of us), it's a good time to re-group, re-assess, re-align ourselves as we move into the last 4 months of the year. One thing we need in order to do this is Clarity - a...
1 Small Step Toward More Self-Care
My coaching and the products I've created, The Mood Ladies, are all about promoting self-care. I see so many people, especially women, over-committed, exhausted, stressed and overwhelmed. Often they aren't able to really enjoy the many good things in their lives because there are too many to-dos on the list....