Friday Fragments

Issue 119. April 18, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨You Are Not Uniquely FlawedMany people come into therapy, recovery, or coaching believing they’re somehow uniquely flawed, so broken, so different, so damaged that no one could possibly understand or help them. They believe they’re beyond repair, that no one knows what they’ve been…

Issue 119. April 11, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Have you ever set a boundary with someone who didn’t honor it, and then you did nothing about it? That was me when I first started setting boundaries. I thought I could just state my boundary and people who honor it. I was…

Issue 118. April 4, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Have you ever been in a situation where you were convinced that other people were the problem, and then you found out, “Oh, wait –  it’s me? I’m the problem!” That may sound disheartening, but in fact it’s empowering. It’s empowering because, if…

Issue 117. March 28, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ For years, I didn’t realize how brutally I spoke to myself in my own mind until I read a book that held up a mirror to my inner dialogue. It was When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth. She wrote out the exact…

Issue 116. March 21, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Are you spiritually fit? Or are things just going your way? We’ve all had those weeks where everything seems to go wrong. But how we handle those moments reveals a lot about our inner strength. Are you spiritually fit? Or are things just…

Issue 115. March 14, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ How to Go from Fear to Freedom: Bookending Your Way to Healthy Boundaries Bookending is a concept I learned in recovery that I found extremely helpful when setting difficult boundaries or having really tough conversations. If you’ve ever had an accountability partner for…

Issue 114. March 7, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Imagine realizing that a habit you’ve had for decades, something you thought was harmless, was actually sabotaging your relationships. That’s what happened when I discovered my gossip problem. When I first got into recovery and learned that gossiping was one of my worst…

Issue 113. February 21, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ If you’re never seen the Mr. Rogers movie “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” with Tom Hanks, I highly recommend it.  It’s a fantastic movie for a variety of reasons. It’s especially poignant for people in 12-step recovery.  I saw it in the…

Issue 112. February 14, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ What if I told you that the strongest foundation for love isn’t passion or spontaneity—but boundaries? On this Valentine’s Day, I want to share how setting boundaries from the start helped build the happiest, healthiest relationship I’ve ever had. I’ll start by telling…

Issue 111. February 7, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ There’s a distinction I often reiterate to my clients between what we get to do versus what we have to do. When we think “I get to do this” we’re framing things in terms of having a choice as opposed to being something…