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One Incredible Strategy for Reducing and Managing Emotional Pain

Issue 70. April 12, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Valeriia Miller Emotional pain sucks. Sometimes, it’s worse than physical pain. I’ve got some ways for you to reduce the amount and frequency of your emotional pain. I’ll share those at the end after sharing the ways I prolonged and increased…

How 12-Step Recovery Taught Me to Let Go and Become Accepting

Issue 69. April 5, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Jenny Ueberberg One of the most important things that 12-step recovery taught me was acceptance: how to accept things I previously considered unacceptable. I didn’t really understand just how important the lack of acceptance was in my life. I was filled…

How and Why Courage Is Contagious

Issue 68. March 29, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: allgo When I was younger, I believed courage meant not being afraid. I didn’t understand how people could have no fear. How did they get rid of it, or just not have it in the first place?? I’ve learned that courage…

How to Transform Envy into Motivation for a Fulfilling Life

Issue 67. March 22, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Malcolm Lightbody What’s interesting to me is that when presented with the same set of circumstances, some people will feel envious whereas others will feel inspired. For example, when some people hear that I’m in a loving, healthy romantic relationship that…

How and Why to Allow Natural Consequences to Unfold to Break the Cycle of Enabling

Issue 66. March 15, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Getty Images So many of us try to step in and prevent or buffer those we love from experiencing the negative effects of their negative behaviors. If you do this once in a while, that’s fine. But if it’s a pattern,…

The Power of Letting Go:

Setting Boundaries for a Stronger You Issue 65. March 8, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Andriyko Podilnyk I’ve read the quote below many, many times. “The level of choice we develop is proportional to the integrity of our boundaries. The more we let go, the stronger our boundaries become.” Adult Children…

Unlocking Freedom:

Reclaiming Your Energy from the Cycle of Controlling Help Issue 64. March 1, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Ephraim Mayrena If you’ve been giving advice to somebody over and over and over again and they never take it, this essay is for you. We do this in an effort to…

Navigating Urgency:

How to Slow Down So You Can Spot and Avoid Red Flags Issue 63. February 23, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Bernd Dittrich If you want what you want when you want it, you’re not likely to be able to delay gratification. This often happens when you have a sense…

My Top 12 Relationship Tips from 12-Step Recovery

Unlocking Intimacy:16 Transformations in 12-Step Recovery for Better Sex Issue 62. February 16, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Getty Images One of the many benefits of my 12-step recovery that I would never have guessed at is that sex has improved dramatically. I’ve learned to keep the focus on myself,…

My Top 12 Relationship Tips from 12-Step Recovery

Issue 61. February 9, 2024 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Photo Credit: Kelly Sikkema Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here are the top 12 relationships tips I learned from 12-step recovery. Seeing as I’m now in the first (and only) healthy relationship of my life after about 40 years of dating, you…