Posts by Barb Nangle
Breaking Free from Old Patterns: The Power of Asking for Clarity
Issue 90. August 30, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ It used to be that when things would happen I’d decide, “It means this.” This was especially true of negative things, but sometimes also true of good things. I’d place a meaning on something and then continue on with my life as if…
Read MoreWhy Affirmations Aren’t Just Wishful Thinking: How to Transform Your Inner Dialogue
Issue 89. August 23, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ I know sometimes people gag when they hear the term “affirmations.” I get it. You can’t just sit around saying “I’m rich” and get rich. That’s not what affirmations are for. They’re for clearing up the negative stuff that’s often swirling in the…
Read MoreMentoring Lessons from 12-Step Recovery: Making It Work for You
Issue 88. August 16, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Mentoring has been practiced for millennia. It’s a fantastic way to build community, groom new leaders, forge ties between various groups, pass on institutional knowledge and culture, and feel connected to others. I’ve learned a ton about both being mentored and being a…
Read MoreHow to Change When Helping Hurts: Lessons from My Codependent Crisis
Issue 87. August 9, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ The incident that landed me in a 12-step recovery was that I hit a codependent bottom. It happened as a result of inviting my homeless friend Dan from church to stay overnight at my home during a really heavy snowstorm in January 2015.…
Read MoreHow to Go from Neediness to Fulfillment: Let Go of External Validation
Issue 86. August 2, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Reflecting on my journey through the 12 steps of recovery, I can see that I previously expected the world and the people in it to meet my needs. I mean for things like validation, love, and acceptance. That seems pretty normal. But what…
Read MoreMy Top 3 Tools for Life: Part 3 – Rediscovering Yourself Through Inner Focus
Issue 85. July 26, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Marcus Aurelius This is the third part of my three-part series on my most important tools for life, which is learning to keep the focus on myself. If you missed the previous two, they’re Mastering the Art of Pausing and Embracing…
Read MoreMy Top 3 Tools for Life: Part 2 – Embracing the Power of Reaching Out
Issue 84. July 19, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Nini from Paris This is part two of my series about the top three tools for managing life that I gained from 12-step recovery. If you missed part one of “Mastering the Art of Pausing” you can read that here. Today’s…
Read MoreMy Top 3 Tools for Life: Part 1 – Mastering the Art of Pausing
Issue 83. July 12, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Gary Barnes This is part one of my series about the top three tools I learned about in 12-step recovery. Mind you, I have an entire tool shed of tools now, thanks to recovery. But these three have been at the…
Read More7 Insights into How I Learned to Relinquish Control and Embrace Serenity
Issue 82. July 5, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Getty Images Since doing the 12-step recovery, I now have the ability to look back at my life before recovery and see it with crystal clarity in a way that was just not possible before. I’m frequently able to look back…
Read MoreHow and Why to Transform Your Life Through Curiosity and Positive Questions
Issue 81. June 28, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Jair Medina Nossa Seek and ye shall find. We all know this is true. When we look for happy joyful things, we find them. When we look for evidence that there is evil all around us, we find it. Same world,…
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