What if I told you I could change your life in 6 weeks? I’m talking big change – your husband notices, your boss notices, even your kids notice. And so do you. You’re more awesome at home, the office, with friends, everywhere in your life … You in? Then keep reading, because I’m going to […]
Everybody has a few pesky personality traits, whether they know them or not. Bossy, short-tempered, melancholic, fake-nice, judgmental … these traits don’t just hide in a box under your bed. They follow you everywhere you go, at work and at home, tripping you up along the way until you deal with them and shut them […]
Sometimes, I get so involved in the process of coaching that I forget to stop and smell the roses. Until a client writes, telling me all about it! My friend and client Amy Butler recently shared a beautiful account of her journey through The Handel Method®, and I wanted to share it with you because […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Never go to bed angry. In Handel Group®, we refer to this kind of a statement as a Personal Law (and this example was certainly one of mine). WHAT’S A PERSONAL LAW? Personal Laws are rules that we live by which dictate how we feel we must behave and act in certain situations. We usually […]
