Carrot and Stick
I don’t know about you but I seem to have an almost magical ability to catalog every moment in my life where I fell short. All those times I was […]
Tag Archives: coaching
IRL
In my current love/hate relationship with social media its easy to forget why I liked it in the first place.
Thank you Donald Trump
Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to American women since Seneca Falls. In my work I get to facilitate conversations about implicit bias (racism, sexism, classism etc.) usually by […]
Self-Care
I took a 30 minute walk outside today. A lunch time walk may not sound like big deal but I have an unhealthy habit of forgetting to get up from […]
Frus Stra Shen
I wish I had a truth mirror. I would hold it up in front of my clients so they could magically see what others see. One of my biggest frustrations […]
Amanda Bear with Too Much Content
When our daughter was younger she was really into The Bearenstain Bears books and cartoons. The books, if you have managed to avoid all 300 of them, dealt with single […]
Crazy Busy is Not a Thing
I recently described the last six months of my life as a time of “unprecedented stress.” What would have been more accurate is if I had said to my friend […]
Losing Your Rhythm
Anyone needing an easy laugh should come to my Jazzercise class on days the instructor works in routines that require clapping. Since I have yet to master the ability move […]
Talking About Race
Given their druthers race is not usually the go to conversation topic for most people. It’s not hard to understand really, when you think about the ever present fear of […]
Why We Still Need Women’s History Month
As Women’s History month drifts to a close I feel like we are running in place with once step forward, two steps back on improving gender equity. And don’t get […]
Story Weaving
This morning, I heard someone say “women hold up half the sky”, and I thought, “I would be happy if most people just held up their half of the conversation.” […]
Cowardly
I asked my daughter what she might say to help a friend have the courage to do something new even though they were scared. After clarifying that the scary thing […]
10 Things I Learned in 2014
I recently saw a picture of Cinderella’s slipper with the caption “If Cinderella went back to pick up her shoe she wouldn’t have become a princess.” Whatever your feelings about […]
They Know Not What They Do Because They Know Not Who They Are
I’m working with one of my coaching clients – I’ll call her Sally because I don’t know anyone called Sally – on strategies to manage a couple of her problematic […]
Pandora’s Jar
Every once in a while when I am coaching a client I get to witness a moment when they realize possibility. An almost audible “click” as thoughts crystallize and the […]
