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The route to happiness is HOPE

“If there’s one thing that I knowIt is the two shades of hopeOne, the enlightening soulAnd the other is more like a hangman’s ropeWell it’s true, you may reap what you sowBut note that despair is the all-time lowBaby, hope deals the hardest blows” Have you heard this song? It’s […]

The Case for Vacation

Summer is over … Bummer!! As you look back … Were you able to take some time off? Did you stay local or travel? How long were you gone for? Was it restful? Rejuvenating?? Today we’re discussing the importance of TIME OFF as a form of essential SELF CARE. In other words, […]

Take heart, find COEURage

I’ve been “on the road” for a while, and it feels good to settle down for a minute and reconnect with you. I brought back a little “gift” in my suitcase from my latest trip: my very first case of Covid … Thankfully not too rough but not too smooth either. […]

6 Ways to Beat the Fall Blues

Has anyone else noticed what happens this time of year? The leaves start to fall, the temperatures get cooler, the days get shorter … and then on top of it all, “they” change the time on us!! NO WONDER October 10 is World Mental Health Day…  This year, our American […]

What is Adlerian Coaching?

By now you all know that I am a life and business coach (specifically The Challenge Coach). But do you know the story of how I became a coach? I promise you it’s worth reading 😉 23 years ago I became a mom for the first time. I had been wanting […]

Bridging Two Worlds: Coaching and Psychodrama

Coaching and Psychodrama

As I’m sure most of you know by now, my purpose in this world is to support people in transforming their challenges into growth and success. This is just a snazzy way of saying that I help my clients get better at life challenges so they can lead happier and more productive […]

Do you need coaching?

When I am not coaching, facilitating, training or speaking, one of my latest hobbies is to be a podcast guest. As a coach, my job and most important task – one could even argue my main responsibility – is to ask questions and listen. Which, for an extravert […]

Back to Basics

My February newsletter was supposed to talk about Love. But if you read it, you know that something personal and worrisome was going on so I ended up discussing how, when we are pre-occupied and in emotional reactivity, we can’t at the same time be functioning at peek brain capacity. […]

To Be or Not To Be

I’ve spent days agonizing in front of the proverbial blank page trying to write this month’s newsletter. There has been something personal and concerning going on that’s consumed me somewhat – and I just couldn’t get the words out of me and onto this page.  Then this morning, it hit me: there’s only so much […]

New Year…New Resolutions?

“Here’s to a bright New Year and a fond farewell to the old; Here’s to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold.” I imagine some of you going: “FOND memories?! Are you kidding me?!!!!” No, in fact, I am not: if you think back on this past year, I bet that […]