I have a client who’s one of the brightest people I’ve ever met. She went to an Ivy League college and was a straight-A student her whole life. She used to help her older sister do her homework when she was in secondary school and her sister was in junior college. She was an investment […]
Mindfulness Is about Presence and Practice
Meditation offers you a way to deal with the stresses and challenges of everyday life. It facilitates self-awareness and self-acceptance through the mindfulness of feelings, thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness helps you develop a sense of presence and takes you to the root cause of stress, tension and anxiety so you can address it more effectively. […]
Why I’m Nice and You Should Be Too
‘You’re very nice…’ Ed said to me during his coaching consultation, unsure, unbelieving, almost accusing. I smiled, confused, as I thought to myself, is that a bad thing? According to him, yes. He wasn’t sure that being nice was an effective way to operate. He was hesitating and questioning his decision to hire me as […]
How to Take the Right Risk in Your Relationships
Recently I found myself in a sticky conversation that caught me off guard. I wasn’t expecting the other person to communicate with me in the way that he did. I didn’t know how to respond at first and told him I’d need some time to reflect on what he’d said. Then I felt into my […]