Posts by Barb Nangle

Issue 129. August 15, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ If you’re in 12-step recovery, the phrase “entirely ready” might sound familiar because it comes from Step 6. But even if you’re not in recovery, this concept can be life-changing. It is about getting to the place where you’re truly willing to do…

Issue 128. August 8, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Turn your people-pleasing tendencies into powerful tools for recovery I’m pretty sure I coined this phrase years ago, and I’ve used it ever since with clients and recovery fellows: Leverage your codependent powers for good. It might sound a little playful, but it’s…

Issue 127. August 1, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ I didn’t know I’d been living in a state of urgency my entire life. That might sound strange, but until I got into recovery, I had no idea that urgency was even “a thing.” I was so used to the pressure, the rushing,…

Issue 126. July 18, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ “I would die for my children.”Yes, but not at their hands. I had a powerful session with a client recently that I want to share with you because her story is not unusual. In fact, it’s one I hear all the time in…

Issue 125. July 4, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ How to Purify the Well: From Negative Self-Talk to Loving Yourself If you’ve heard me speak before, you may remember this metaphor: negative self-talk is like poison in the well. It seeps into everything. And when we stop the self-hate, the guilt, the…

Issue 124. June 6, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Step 4 and the Power of Honest Inventory For those of you not familiar with the 12-step recovery process, Step 4 is where we take a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. That sounds pretty daunting just to read those words. And…

Issue 123. May 16, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ FOMO, Self-Abandonment, and the Power of Refocusing on You I got a message recently from someone who’s constantly battling FOMO—the fear of missing out. She’s overwhelmed by where other people are in their recovery and how far behind she feels, both in her…

Issue 122. May 2, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Perhaps some of these snippets will resonate with you:  One of the really interesting aspects of 12-step recovery is that we start noticing things like this. We realize we don’t have to live like that anymore. We get to purposefully occupy our homes,…

Issue 120. April 25, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ The most important thing I want to offer you today is hope. Because when you have hope, you have a reason to keep going. And once you have even a glimmer of hope, I want to give you practical tools and mindset shifts…

Issue 119. April 18, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ You Are Not Uniquely Flawed Many 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…