People lie in all different ways. I am a goody two-shoes, so mine are pretty hard to detect, usually not outright lies and I am happy to say, I almost always catch mine and confess. Do you? I caught my dear friend the other day and caught myself in the process. Let’s call her Susan. […]
If you know me at all, you know I deal with fear all the time, but sometimes it’s hard to recognize. So, I want to teach you some of its favorite disguises and share how I learned to spot fear in my life. About eight years ago, I was a mother of two young children, […]
At MIT, we teach a course called Designing Your Life, which is a pretty broad topic, but we break it down to the 18 major areas of life: relationships, family, body, health, career, money, fun, love, romance, sex, etc. Now I feel the need to break it down even further because of what happened for me […]
What’s the difference between therapy and life coaching, is the most frequently asked question we get. Even if you haven’t asked it, you may have wondered, so I am taking a crack at it. I’ll start with caveats. Therapy has its place and life coaching has its place. They overlap in many goals, but they […]
When a great new opportunity comes across your desk, is your first thought:“YES!”Or is it:“How could I make THAT happen?”Upon reflection, I am sad to find my mind usually tells me, and everyone else “no” in response to anything new, at first. Sure if the idea is about where to make dinner reservations, no problem, […]
Today we have a guest blog from Dr. Samantha Sutton, a Senior Coach and the Director of Courses and Seminars at Handel Group Life Coaching. Samantha is the leader of our flagship workshop, Design Your Life Weekend. Please enjoy; I’ll be back next week! – LaurieMany of us are stuck in one area of life […]
I was recently embarrassed while shooting my TV show and realized the power of the experience. Let me explain.I love my producer, (let’s call him Joe); he found me after interviewing many, many candidates, so I was so excited to be chosen. For the past nine months we’ve been planning and strategizing and shooting. We […]
A client, Diane, we’ll call her, recently reported in an email to her coach and me having two really difficult conversations: one with a former love-interest and one with a friend. In both, she had to admit some embarrassing thoughts she was hiding. She did NOT get the response she was hoping for or feel […]
This story cracks me up every time my husband tells it. He used to head up an elementary program at a Montessori school and he had a room full of 6-10 year-olds to deal with every day. There was always conflict, but there was one boy who repeatedly got into physical altercations with other kids. […]
I have had quite a journey with beauty. In seventh grade I wanted to be a model and even went to modeling school. (You gotta love it! Only a looks-obsessed teenager would dream this up at 5’3”.) In high school, I downplayed it for the girls and worked it for the boys. By college, I […]
When I talk to leaders, I find out a lot of them struggle with feeling like frauds. After all the work you do to succeed, do you sometimes still end up feeling like a fraud?Recently my leadership capacities took a leap forward when I realized I was being a hypocrite. I was telling other people […]
My rabbi once told me “don’t be so open minded that your brain falls out.” Sometimes when you work so hard on yourself and you want so much to do “the right” thing and be a good person, you can end up with one heck of a fake life. Is it possible to be so […]
