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How Transitions Help You Become More Recognizable to Yourself
Issue 180, August 14, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Last week, we explored how unexpected changes can become detours in our lives, even when we didn’t choose them and would never have asked for them. This week, we’re moving into the identity questions that transitions often bring to the surface. These questions…
How to Find Hope in a Transition You Didn’t Choose
You don’t have to call a painful experience a blessing to leave room for what may grow from it. Issue 179, August 7, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ My theme for August is transitions and resetting routines. Over the next four weeks, we’re going to explore what happens when life changes, especially…
What Self-Sabotage Really Is and How to Stop Abandoning Yourself
Issue 178, July 31, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Self-trust isn’t built by always making the right decision. It’s built by staying on your own side after you make one. When people talk about self-sabotage, they often describe it as though some inexplicable part of them is determined to ruin their lives.…
The Problem Isn’t That You Trust the Wrong People
It’s that you don’t trust yourself enough to believe what you’re already seeing Issue 177, July 24, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Have you ever looked back at a relationship and thought, I should have seen it coming? Maybe it was a friend who repeatedly broke promises. A partner whose words and actions…
Why You Say Yes Before You’ve Actually Decided
photo credit: Getty Images This is part of The Hidden Mechanics of Boundaries, a limited series about what happens under the surface before, during, and after a boundary. Someone asks if you can help with something, attend something, take something on, or change your plans for them. Before you’ve considered your schedule, your energy, what…
Why You Don’t Trust Yourself (And What Control Has to Do With It)
Issue 176, July 17, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ I have a quote taped to my bathroom mirror. It’s been there for years. The paper is faded. It’s covered with water spots. At this point, it’s held together as much by tape as by paper. I keep it because it reminds me…
When Your First Reaction Isn’t Really About Today (and How to Change That)
Issue 175, July 10, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Your nervous system and your thinking haven’t been updated yet. Have you ever found yourself reacting to something and later wondered, Why did I get so upset about that? Maybe someone misunderstood your intentions, and you immediately felt defensive. Someone didn’t respond to…
Why So Many Women Feel Trapped When They’re Not
Issue 174, July 3, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ One of the phrases I hear most often from clients is some version of “I have to.” Sometimes the language is a little different. People tell me they “need” to do something or that they “should” do something. But underneath those phrases is…
Why Difficult Conversations Feel So Hard and How to Feel Safe While Having Them
Issue 173, June 26, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ One of the most important things I’ve learned in recovery is how to have difficult conversations. For most of my life, I avoided them whenever possible. If something was bothering me, I would think about it endlessly. I’d replay conversations in my head,…
20 Years Ago Today My Brother Pat Died
June 20, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ 20 years ago today, my brother Pat died. He was 35. He was my “little brother“ (even though he was much taller and bigger than me). He died of Legionaire’s Disease, which only about 5% of people who get it do. He was severely debilitated…