This has been a really useful technique. I'm cutting and pasting from a UVM Medical Center blog article, but I added my own spin. This exercise is about noticing that you are currently OKAY. You're safe, surrounded by beauty, everything is OKAY right now. It's to be combined with deep breathing at each step ( Read more... )

I finished "Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears" by Pema Chödrön and moved my bookmark immediately back to the beginning. This book is a series of wise thoughts that each need to be meditated upon. I feel like it's a book I should just read a chapter from each night for a while ( Read more... )

A book doesn't get much more woo woo than this one. A deeply troubled person figured out how to manage her mind so that she was less troubled. I got the tip to read this book from listening to Brooke Castillo's life coaching: Byron Katie was one of her influencers (among hundreds.) I think it's a pretty stupid treatment of stuff that you can get ( Read more... )

I started out listening to a weight loss coach's podcast, then discovered that she's a clone of a famous weight loss coach named Brooke Castillo who started a school to train OTHER weight loss coaches (and then life coaches in general). Her podcast, The Life Coach School Podcast, is the ultimate self-improvement podcast. I listen to one most days ( Read more... )

I listened to a podcast recently that made me want to go take notes. It was April Perry on Nov. 18, 2017 interviewing Dr. Matthew May (trained by Dr. David Burns) on how to overcome blockages.

Here are the show notes: https://learndobecome.com/episode21/I liked the therapist tools he used. It's worth listening to this podcast again sometime ( Read more... )

Instead of telling someone I am sorry, tell them I am grateful for them ( Read more... )

I am reading "Essentialism" by Greg McKeown and thinking about my Big Rocks. How to focus on the essential when I have seven core values? What is my main priority? Because, as McKeown points out, for several hundred years the word "priority" was only ever singular.

How will I spend my one wild and precious life, as Mary Oliver asks ( Read more... )

One of my clients just passed away in his late 80's. He was a Jungian Analyst who studied at the Carl Jung Institute in Zurich. (Have I mentioned lately how cool my clients are? I have really really cool clients.) Anyway, he used to talk to me about realizing my potential with analysis. I resisted his offer, but took note that people called him for ( Read more... )

I have a whole bunch of finished files that need to go back into my filing cabinet. There are several hundred files in my filing cabinet and I use a technique I call "alphebitizing" to keep them in order. I have a large bold font typed label for most of my client files (because previous staff had vision problems) and I underline the letter of the ( Read more... )

Quick background: The picture above was taken 11 years ago. I'd recently lost 80 pounds and was doing triathlons. I kept the weight off for five years or so and then gradually started regaining it. I now weigh about 50 pounds more than I'd like to. I couldn't deal with it before when I had other fires to put out, but now I have been focusing on ( Read more... )