“Well, how about this. How about you go ahead and start the medicine. Let’s see how you do on it. Then, we can make a decision from there. Who knows? It might not agree with you and all this worry will be for nothing. We won’t know until you start. We can figure out the…
When the days of mom stress are long and full, you need some ways to reduce stress. Ways to handle the extra pressure and stress that is stealing your joy and keeping you from being the mom you want to be each day. Mom Stress is that overwhelmed feeling you get when everything around you…
Feeling emotional can truly take you by surprise. The moment you are sitting there and find yourself saying, “I don’t even know why I’m angry.” Why is this upsetting me so much? Why does this hurt so bad? Sweet clients who look at me and say, “I didn’t think I’d cry in this session,” while…
Imagine your daughter is standing before you, red face with all the tears. Her sniffling nose and tired eyes are speaking to you louder than her words. “Yep. Bedtime,” you think to yourself while grabbing a kleenex from the box next to you. You can see the signs all over her that she needs a…
After a season of ignoring my favorite things, my counselor encouraged and asked me to greatly consider doing my favorite things. Fun things. Crazy things. My own things. Interesting things. My mentor coach, in another way of encouraging growth, told me to stop hesitating and just jump out there and do the things! Stop overthinking,…
Books are a very important piece of personal growth. There was a time that I purposefully ignored all the growth books around me because I had a feeling I knew what they would tell me. I knew once I started on the journey to growth, things would change. I would change. Life would change. The…
Research is showing that accountability coaching is extremely effective for many areas of your life. Having someone ask the right questions, help you establish the next steps, set goals, and hold you accountable to those goals can be beneficial for lasting, real change in life and work behaviors. Reducing overwhelm, halting procrastination, breaking down large…
There is something about growth, about being the healthiest you, the healthiest version of yourself that has captivated my attention and led me to coaching. After waking up this morning and taking a sip of coffee, I contemplated the journey I’ve been on to find that place of health. We all know that in the…
