Mastering Transition after Trauma
For those of you who’d like to master transition after trauma without inducing more pain, I’d like to offer a little guidance. As a coach, I can speak from experience and how I’ve helped clients. The goal is not to re-traumatize you in transition, but give you the agency needed to take control.
Just Keep Moving
Regardless of what you have faced or what you’re facing now … just keep moving. It’s easier to steer a moving ship.
A Forced Break.
Many years ago my sister was traveling home going north on icy, wintery roads in a small Toyota Camry. The route was familiar. About 30 minutes from our parents, she put her left turn signal on to exit off the highway. As she started to turn, the semi behind her had already began to pass at 70 mph. He didn’t see her turn signal and she didn’t see him alongside her …
Find Your Answers
The answers you need to not exist outside of yourself and they are not here. They are within. Learn how to find them …
How to Measure Real Time
They say, “Timing is everything.” Everyone is given the same 24 hours in a day - or are we?
Time measured by minute is the same. Time measured by energy is not.
Do I Need a Life Coach or Counselor?
The most common question I get every week is “Do I need a Life Coach or a Counselor? What exactly does a life coach do? Isn’t it the same as counseling?” Well, not exactly. Here’s why …
Inexpensive Mistakes
Let’s dig a little deeper and talk about what happens if you don’t perform perfectly. Or better yet, if you make a mistake.
Crumble With It
It’s not weak to crumble with it. What you find face down on the floor you’ve been avoiding might be the exact place you find what you’ve been looking for. Perspective changes everything that is exactly the same because of how you see it.
Why Settle Now?
Don’t settle now.
You’ve waited this long as others challenged your values, pushed your boundaries and made you question yourself. You stayed strong with your quiet, “No thank you” and “interesting” replies. I know you’re irritated and want to give an answer ….
Let Pain Be Your Teacher
My personal experience with health trauma (prior to covid) has taught me to sit in my pain and rise from it for the better. Let me explain …
Tired of Being Scared?
Do you want to know what the real fear is? The fear is not in the unknown, the fear is that we don’t trust ourselves to handle that worst case scenario day or days after. We don’t believe that we could handle it and instead, it would handle us. We would lose control.
Quit Journaling and Get Ahead
I’m changing the emotional landscape around traditional journaling to attract what I want more of and acknowledge what I’m capable of.