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What is Your Original Medicine?
“You can’t work someone else’s medicine.” ~ Michael Trotta I’ve just returned from the Martha Beck Summit in Phoenix, where I had the honor of meeting so many inspiring teachers, connecting with good friends, meeting new friends, and experiencing so much that words can’t describe. I will likely write many blog posts with all the…
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Career Possibilities
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of a free podcast series — Possibilities Ahead — I’ve created with the supremely talented and organized Kanesha Baynard. Kanesha and I were in Martha Beck’s Life Coach Training program together, and she is a fireball of energy and ideas! We have collaborated on this podcast series to answer…
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Value
My minister is doing a series of sermons on the Beatitudes, and one statement he made last week really stood out for me: “Success doesn’t make you more valuable. Failure won’t make you less valuable.” Wow. That hit me dead-on. I’ve always been a bit of an over-achiever, a perfectionist, pushing myself to achieve MORE.…
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Calling Your Energy Home
“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld We often get so scattered, pulled in different directions by our families, our work, our electronic devices, the multitude of marketing and advertising around us vying for our attention. While our culture prizes multi-tasking,…
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Open to Adventures
I’ve been leading a virtual book club this month for Martha Beck‘s newest book, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World. One of the benefits of holding this virtually is that participants come from varied places, from Canada, Austria, and multiple states in the U.S., including Alaska! I love how technology can be such…
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For Love of Travel
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller My father came to the United States when he was just 17, looking for job opportunities that weren’t available to him back home in Runcorn in the United Kingdom. He found and worked at several different jobs before finding…
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When is the Right Time?
“Your journey has molded you for greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the Now. And Now is right on time.”– Asha Tyson Often times I hear clients or friends asking, “when…
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Pain and Suffering
“Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” – first noble truth of Buddhism This past Friday, I finally decided to have a root canal done. The tooth that has been annoyingly painful…
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What’s Your Rhino?
In Martha Beck‘s new book, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, she recounts her thrilling up-close experience with a protective mama rhinoceros. Martha uses the rhino as a metaphor, as she describes, “Your ‘rhinoceros’ is anything that so fulfills your life’s real purpose that if someone told you, ‘It’s right outside – but…
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What to Do When it Sucks
My normally positive, sunshine-y niece had a rough day and told me, “You know what I learned? ‘Life sucks and then you die.’” I was so sad to hear that jaded phrase from her. Now, granted, she is getting to the precipice of puberty — you remember, that fun time when your hormones are bouncing…