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Why Not Everything Is About You (and How That Sets You Free at Work)

Issue 133. September 12, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ One of the biggest paradigm shifts of my recovery—and my life—was realizing how much I lived in a victim mentality. For years, I didn’t see it in myself. I could spot it in others instantly (and rush in to rescue them), but I…

How to Trust Yourself First So You Can Trust Others at Work

Issue 132. September 04, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ I had a realization recently that stopped me in my tracks: honesty requires trust. At first, I thought about trust in others. But the more I sat with it, the more I realized this: I can only be honest when I trust myself.…

How to Go from Resentment to Freedom: Meeting Your Own Needs First

Issue 131. August 29, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Back-to-school season can stir up all kinds of feelings. Whether you are a parent juggling schedules, a teacher preparing for a new year, or a professional adjusting to the post-summer rush, this time of year often exposes old habits: over-giving, people-pleasing, and waiting…

How to Go from Overwhelm to Empowerment: Mental Boundaries for the School Year

Issue 130. August 22, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ The back-to-school season can feel like a reset button. Even if you don’t have kids at home, there’s something about September that stirs up a sense of new commitments, new expectations, and often… old patterns. That’s why this is the perfect time to…

How to Move from Wishing for Change to Actually Making It Happen

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…

How to Leverage Your Codependent Powers for Good (Yes, Really)

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…

How to Stop Living in Constant Urgency and Finally Relax

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,…

When Love Looks Like Self-Betrayal: Why Tolerating Abuse Isn’t Loyalty

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…

How to Go From Poison to Peace: Healing the Voice Inside Your Head

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…

Why People-Pleasing Isn’t Nice—It’s Dishonest: My Recovery Wake-Up Call

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…