Psychology Today lists 10 reasons why journaling can be beneficial to your health. These reasons include: helps reduce anxiety and stress, enhances creativity, improves memory, boosts self-awareness, good for your mental health, provides motivation, gives you a sense of accomplishment, strengthens your relationships, helps your productivity and leaves a legacy! Sounds great right? It really is great to journal but sometimes the words don’t come easily. This is where journal prompts [...]

Merriam Webster definition of the word triggered: A : occurring in response to a stimulus typically perceived as negative or harmful Triggered reactions can be intense and unpleasant, and may even overtake our consciousness, as with a flashback experienced by a war veteran.—Kate Manne As the body moves quickly, the heart rate and breath speed up, which also occurs during a triggered "fight or flight" reaction.—Lindsey Pearson B : caused to [...]

My Lesson for Today As a Life Coach I enjoy helping people discover the answers to their problems. Together we look at the circumstances in their life and discuss what’s working for them and what’s not working for them. From there we are able to develop plans and goals to get them to the place they want to be. If a client decides they don’t want to do the work, then [...]

How dependent are you on someone else to make you happy? If you crave attention and approval from others, begin by asking yourself why you need that? Take some time to really reflect and try writing down the answers that come forward. Try to come to an understanding that you are responsible for your own happiness and do not need others to find your own happiness. Try one new thing a [...]

The title of this post is Who Needs a Life Coach Before the End of the Year but maybe the real title should be, Who Doesn’t Need a Life Coach Before the End of the Year? The reason for the change is because so many of us make those end of year resolutions and so many times we fail at them. First we have the pressure to make a resolution and [...]

Problems – We All Got ‘Em! Now What? When you are faced with a problem, how do you handle it? Do you fly by the seat of your pants? Do you get overwhelmed and paralyzed and do nothing? Do you look for someone else to handle it? Well what if you had 10 questions at your disposal that you could refer to when problems arise and have a methodical and effective [...]

The Power of the Word “Yet” As a life coach many of my clients reach out to me for improving an area of their life they may be struggling with. When I first meet them, I listen to the words they use to describe the issue they want help with. Often I hear these phrases, “I can’t” “I haven’t” “I won’t” “I am not able to” etc. Do any of those [...]

Not today Satan! Just for today try putting a moratorium on complaining. It might be harder than you think. And actually, to stop complaining you have to think before you speak in order to catch yourself. No more... it's so hot today, or I feel crappy today, my car sucks, my job is horrible or any other of the million things we unconsciously complain about. Each time you find yourself uttering [...]

I just finished reading a post by Chester Elton, author of the Gratitude Journal. If you aren’t a follower, I recommend you look him up. He will open your eyes to the power of gratitude. In this particular post, Chester mentions that many of us have the automatic habit of deflecting a compliment. He goes on to explain that many times when we received a compliment, we deflect it by downplaying [...]

I really like the Brendon Burchard quote. He says "First it's an intention. Then a behavior. Then a habit. Then a practice. Then a second nature. Then it's simply who you are. This quote came to me at a time in my life where I wanted to give up sweets. It wouldn't be the first time I tried to stop eating sweets but I never before had a roadmap to get [...]