Enjoying Coaching
On a break in between client sessions...Coaching is so rewarding! It's so fun and wonderful, and an honor, to see people's lives, and selves, transform.
Coach Michele
Inner Freedom Quote
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. The Buddha
Enneagram Types in Star Trek
The Enneagram is a powerful system for understanding our personalities, and our true natures. Now, I'm quite sure the characters in Star Trek (in this article I'll use examples from TOS (the original series), TNG (the Next Generation), and Voyager) are not as...
Supplement to Minding Your Own Business
Aha! That tricky ego is finding it's way around that whole Minding Your Own Business thing... Yes, it is your business what you think, feel, say and do...But there are some caveats! - Major caveat: All of the above must be IN THIS MOMENT. It is not your business...
The Best Teacher in the World
Last night, I met the best teacher in the world. I've always contended that coaching is different than teaching. Now I'm not sure. Being in the presence of this "teacher" changed me wholly and deeply. Why? What was going on? I was made more fully aware of my...
Why Backdoor Methods to Self-Development Work
I posted a short article on the MyLifeCoach.com blog, on the Top 5 Backdoor Methods to Holistic Health and Self-Development... These are all goals that have handles...Things you can grab onto and manipulate and try and improve in your life. These are also all goals...
The Beauty of Emergence
Ok, so I'll try not to get too effusive here. It is simply amazing to see a person, already of very high performance, discover whole new levels of satisfaction and fulfillment. To see that they don't need to suffer they way they've been suffering. To see that a...
Minding Your Own Business
My Business/Your Business/The Universe's Business My Business: What I feel, think, say and do, and where I place my conscious focus Your Business: What you feel, think, say and do The Universe's Business: EVERYTHING ELSE. Outcomes, results, happenings, events. Not...
How Do You Feel? It’s a Good Reflection of Connection!
Here's a great blog post, Blessed are the Cheerful!, by Wayne Dyer... Excerpt: "Ask yourself this key question, 'How do I feel most of the time?' If your answer is that you feel anxious, anguished, hurt, depressed, frustrated, and so on, then you have a spiritual...
A New Bluey?
Bluey, "my" blue coloured green frog (Rana clamitans) that lives (used to live?) in my pond has been missing for a long time. I really miss him, and I always keep an eye out for him... This spring, there are LOTS of frogs...Maybe the most I've ever had! There seems...
Join Me on CTV’s the Marilyn Denis Show
The series, Mommy Weight Loss, in which I am one of the three guest experts, will air this week (week of May 9th, 2011) on Marilyn, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings. The show starts at 10 am eastern, though they may not always run the series at the...
The Science of Enlightenment – Shinzen Young
One of my most treasured clients gifted an amazing audio series to me, it is called The Science of Enlightenment, by Shinzen Young. This audio series strikes a delightfully refreshing bridge between reason and mysticism. An intelligent, rational, practical...
Why Hire a Life Coach?
It's funny, I haven't addressed this question before. Yet, it is a question on all of my potential clients' minds Not mention on the lips of their friends and family should they chose to share their interest in having a coach! Forgive me, but I'll skip over the...
Coaching Chronicles Newsletter
I'll be a regular contributor, in a series entitled Energy Management, in the new Germaine Life Coaching newsletter, Coaching Chronicles. The first issue just came out! If you are interested in leadership, performance, careers and/or coaching, you couldn't find a...
Why You Feel Crummy – You Are Lying To Yourself
When you feel mad, upset, out-of-sorts, off balance, not-yourself, etc., there is only one reason why: You are lying to yourself. You are holding an idea in your mind, that is not true, and/or taking an action you don't believe in. When we lie to ourselves, we feel...
Coach Michele
Imagining Déjà Vu – A More Powerful Visualization Technique
Anyone that has done any studying of optimal performance, creation or attraction knows about visualization. Visualization is a technique where we "picture", in our minds, a desired outcome, programming our brains, and our larger selves, as to what we want to have...
Anger vs. Abuse
Has anyone ever said to you "can't I even get mad?" Have you ever said that to someone else? Well, is it OK to be angry? There is such a thing as a healthy expression of the emotion of anger, and something that seems like anger but is really just abuse. Dr. David...
Your Most Important Choice in This Moment? Your Focus.
Read more about the importance and movement of your focus on MyLifeCoach.com. You Always Have a Choice
A Way Out of Pain – In Relationships, and Life
This video might also be considered as...A way out of suffering, if we make a distinction between pain, the sensation, and suffering, our (common) overall experience of pain...Because Matt Kahn asks us to relate to pain in a way in which we are not resisting it's...
What’s Scarier? Following the Fear to Find the Truth
So many times when communication seems painful, there is an obscuring of the truth. A dancing about with layer upon layer of defense mechanisms and egoic beliefs that SEEM like something important to talk about, consider, or be upset about, but are actually orders...
Coach Michele
Imagining Déjà Vu – A More Powerful Visualization Technique
Anyone that has done any studying of optimal performance, creation or attraction knows about visualization. Visualization is a technique where we "picture", in our minds, a desired outcome, programming our brains, and our larger selves, as to what we want to have...
Anger vs. Abuse
Has anyone ever said to you "can't I even get mad?" Have you ever said that to someone else? Well, is it OK to be angry? There is such a thing as a healthy expression of the emotion of anger, and something that seems like anger but is really just abuse. Dr. David...
Your Most Important Choice in This Moment? Your Focus.
Read more about the importance and movement of your focus on MyLifeCoach.com. You Always Have a Choice
A Way Out of Pain – In Relationships, and Life
This video might also be considered as...A way out of suffering, if we make a distinction between pain, the sensation, and suffering, our (common) overall experience of pain...Because Matt Kahn asks us to relate to pain in a way in which we are not resisting it's...
What’s Scarier? Following the Fear to Find the Truth
So many times when communication seems painful, there is an obscuring of the truth. A dancing about with layer upon layer of defense mechanisms and egoic beliefs that SEEM like something important to talk about, consider, or be upset about, but are actually orders...