Inspiration

I’m So Glad that I Did Not Leave

I’m So Glad that I Did Not Leave

“Let yourself be open and life will be easier.” Buddha Siddhartha Recently, someone asked me, “Can two people who have been disconnected for YEARS ever find their way back to one another?” The...

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A Mic Drop Marriage Moment

A Mic Drop Marriage Moment

“Difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations.” Zig Ziglar I have been working with R. for some time and she and her husband’s relationship have gone through plenty of high and low points. But...

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Begin Again

Maybe this year wasn’t what you had expected and didn’t exactly go as planned. Begin again. Maybe this past year brought you more heartbreak and pain that you thought was possible. Begin again....

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My Musings on Marriage

My Musings on Marriage

“Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch.” Wynonna Judd   I love the idea of having someone to walk beside in this life. I love that...

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Why We Avoid Setting Boundaries

“When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the...

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Sharing Some Gifts with You

“Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.” Pablo Neruda At this time of year, we’re thinking a lot about presents. Let’s also...

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Judgement Doesn’t Help

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Theresa   Women who have lied find me… Women who have cheated find me… Women who have engaged with married men find me… Women who...

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Challenging the Inevitable Truth

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde   Virtually everyone believes their thoughts as Truth (with a capital T). No one walks around thinking, “I think I’ll believe that lie.”...

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How are You Showing Up as a Woman?

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” Simone De Beauvoir My client, who I’ll refer to as Tammy, is getting ready to have that incredibly difficult conversation with her husband. She’s been...

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This is What to Do with Drama and Struggle

“It’s not somebody’s fault if their father was an abusive alcoholic, but it’s for damn sure their responsibility to figure out how they’re gonna deal with those traumas and try to make a life out of...

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When We Withhold Love

“If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?” Donald L. Hicks   Here’s how most relationships work: When my spouse is doing the things that I want them to do, I show...

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What has been Your Biggest Mistake?

“Sometimes our biggest mistake gives us our greatest reward.” Namita Budhiraja   I received an application today that read something like… Our relationship has been one roller coaster ride...

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Choosing Peace is a Gift to Yourself

“Inner peace begins the moment you choose to not allow another person or event to control your emotions.” Pema Chödrön   Here’s something you may not know about me: I am horrible at arguing. I...

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To Love takes Courage

“Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe.” Martina Boone The word courage has a Latin root, cor, which means heart. The heart has long been a metaphor used to depict...

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We Do What We Want to Do. Period.

“Adults get to behave however they want.” Brooke Castillo My client, Maggie, has begged her husband, Joe, for years to spend more time with her. The kids are grown and off on their own now and...

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I Wish He Would

“What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing.” Jim Rohn I used to be that person that would see people in the potential of who they could be, rather than...

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How Is This Possible In Coaching?

“What is now proved, was only once imagined.” William Blake   I’m in a coaching session with my new client Eve. She tells me about how she used to be so brave in her life, traveling to...

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You’ve Changed…

“You’re always in the process of becoming. You aren’t who you were and you aren’t who you are going to be.” Rob Bell Maybe some of this sounds familiar: "You've changed. Now you're too...(fill-in...

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Compare and Despair

“The Reason We Struggle with Insecurity is because We Compare Our behind the Scenes with Everyone Else’s Highlight Reel.”  Steven Furtick   We live in an interesting time of sharing snippets of...

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My Life Needed to be Blown-Up

“When your life shatters, you’re being awakened.” Martha Beck   Ten years ago, I was submerged in a life and a career that I thought contained all the keys to happiness, but instead was a life...

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The Most Important Thing a Man Wants

“(on love) It’s the only thing that allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down…bring them low…and make them crawl.”  Stephen King I was asked to...

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My Biggest Beef with the Self-Help Industry

“I dislike the work self-help. Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.” Deepak Chopra   Okay…..I know…..I know……Clearly, as a Love Coach I exist and live within the self-help industry. I’ve...

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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” Louise L. Hay   My client Jennifer seems to be getting judgements and...

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A Little Distraction Goes a Long Way

“Don't wish me happiness I don't expect to be happy all the time... It's gotton beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.”  Anne Morrow Lindbergh...

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I’m so Selfish

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” Oscar Wilde   You know when you go to the hair salon and it’s like sitting on a therapist’s...

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What I’m Learning from Coaching Men

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”  Viktor E Frankl   From the beginning, I always knew I would work with women – particularly women of a...

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Soften Up, Baby

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” Washington Irving   During my first marriage, I wasn’t a Master Life Coach. I was in corporate...

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The Good in Goodbye

“Thank God I found the good in goodbye.” Beyoncé Knowles   My client, Karen got out of a marriage that lasted almost three decades and although she would admit that she wasn’t happy in the...

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Life Outside Your Safe Zone

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” Jack Canfield   When people approach me as a coach and trust me enough to share with me their story, there are some common threads in those...

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Seeing through the Eyes of Love

“Every loving thought is true. Everything else is an appeal for healing and help, regardless of the form it takes.” A Course in Miracles   I have a client in Europe that I’ve been working with...

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Why I’m Not a Fan of Affirmations

“…before a wound can heal, it must be seen.” Julia Cameron   It’s not that I think affirmations are a bad thing; I don’t. The mind can be incredibly powerful. But too often, we try to use...

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What’s Whispering to You Right Now?

“Let your heart guide you. It whispers…so listen closely.” The Land before Time   I believe that our souls are always speaking to us, whispering to us. And our souls love nothing more than to...

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Love is My Religion

“In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.” Mesut Barazany I’m sitting in the waiting room of my doctor’s office completing the paperwork they need me to fill-out before seeing the...

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