I have a confession: I am a control-freak. If you know me, or have followed my writing, you already know this. I want to defend it! It has it’s perks – I get a lot done, I get to be the boss of things, people listen to me like I am an authority… But the […]

I love working with creatives! As a life coach, it allows me to get creative in MY approach to coaching those with unconventional careers and dreams. Artists, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, career-shifters, rain makers…People who make things happen that have never happened before, who are trying to create something out of nothing! A song, a painting, […]

In the all-seeing, ever-connected social climate of today, we spend so much time honing in on our online personalities, and crafting profiles that best represent what we want to tell people about who we are. But of course, the question remains: How do other people in your life really perceive you? Do they see you […]

So, your last relationship ended a few months ago, and you feel ready to step out again. You’re over the hurt feelings, you dealt with your part gracefully and maturely, and you even learned a lot along the way. It’s empowering to know that you can put any situation in the rear view mirror, and […]

“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” – Phil Conners, Groundhog Day A few weeks ago I re-watched one of my favorite movies of all time, Groundhog Day. Bill Murray plays an arrogant weather reporter who wakes up […]

The first duty of love is to listen – Paul Tillich My wife’s father died recently and naturally things have been sad around our household. So the other day when I was putting a few towels into the linen closet, I was not entirely surprised to hear soft sobs coming from our bedroom. What happened […]

My daughter wants to be a fabulously wealthy, world renowned OB-GYN with an amazing husband, two or three kids and plenty of animals. She loves dreaming this dream. She is ten years old. My other daughter, age eight, wants to be an abstract artist or a comedienne, or maybe both. She has similar love and […]

This Valentines Day, let me let you in on a secret… everyone is so hung up on love! It’s one of the top concerns I hear from my clients–otherwise successful people who feel like they’re utterly failing at it. Luckily, love is one of my favorite things to coach! I love to unravel people’s thought […]

I was driving in my car the other day and heard on the radio that the number one New Year’s resolution people are making this year is to lose weight and exercise more. Not so surprising, right? IT WAS MY NUMBER ONE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION FOR YEARS. Every year at this time since my twenties, […]

A client recently asked what to do when people around her were gossiping, now that she has declared a new rule for herself that she would not participate in gossip. Awkward.  I told her to use the “crowd out” method. I first learned about the crowd out method in one of Patricia Moreno’s fitness classes. […]

Could you imagine throwing a holiday dinner party and not preparing for it? I’ll give you a scenario. It’s December 24th. There’s a knock on the door. Your family arrives all dressed up for a party and you are lying on the sofa watching Scandal in your sweats. You offer them a half bottle of […]

I took a class at Barry’s Bootcamp today. How to describe? One hour of non-stop huffing, puffing, panting and sweating. Three letters just keep coming to mind: O-M-G. I have never pushed that hard in my life. If you are not familiar with this particular brand of New York style fitness torture exhilaration, perhaps you […]