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Seven Ways to Heal Your Holiday
For many, the holiday season is a season of joyful expectation, reunions with loved ones, and merry parties and group events. This year is decidedly different for most everyone who has a proper respect for the power of viruses. Yet, even in the best of circumstances,...
The Season to Heal Perfectionism
‘Tis the season to be jolly? NOT! For a lot of people this holiday season is particularly not a happy one with pandemic lockdowns, masks, unemployment, physical hunger, and the threat of being homeless. Millions are emotionally drained; extroverts who depend on being...
What’s UNDER Your Foundation?
Life. Your life is unique and unrepeatable. Every life needs its own foundation to support it. What is this foundation? It is a combination of your core values, religion, relationships, careers, and more, and the way you balance all of it. But what is...
Nine Points of Empathic Leadership
One of the top saboteurs to a successful business is in the area of leadership. And the top Saboteur that undermines leadership is the lack of Empathy. If you are to become a “Success Master” you will need to perfect your empathy in dealing with all people. Being a...
The Cost of Choice
Most people in the Western world take for granted their freedom to make choices. Yet what does our freedom of choice cost?What limits our freedom to choose?How might our choices either unite us or set us apart from others? For most of us our culture has been...
Longing to Belong
The happiest memories I have are when I felt as if I belonged to something larger than myself: family, church, cadre of friends, orchestras, choruses. As a life coach I am privileged to help create this kind of “instant” community for an hour or so whenever I offer a...
Neglect: The Silent Killer of the Soul
Three kinds of neglect that affect our spiritual lives and cause tremendous wounding: emotional neglect, physical neglect, and neglect in spiritual communities. Regarding emotional neglect, we are fortunate to have the work of Dr. Jonice Webb available to us in her...
Healing Our Spiritual Pasts
Today I want to begin a conversation about past experiences that have wounded us. Specifically, I am focusing on experiences associated with spiritual or church organizations. We usually belong to a religion or congregation for some great reasons. We’re looking for...
Emotional Neglect
I just finished one of the best books I’ve ever read: Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb, PhD with Christine Musello, PsyD. (2014, Morgan James Publishing, NY). Dr. Webb has opened my eyes to a whole, new way of looking at...
Who Are Your Kindred Spirits?
I have very few friends. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be for me. The six or so true relationships I enjoy are not just friends; they are kindred spirits. We give each other the emotional and spiritual support we need to stay in balance and show up in the...