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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…
Why FOMO Is Really Self-Abandonment (and How to Heal It)
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…
You Deserve a Better Garbage Can (and a Better Life)
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,…
Why I Thought Hope Was Dangerous—and What Changed My Mind
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…
The Humbling Truth: You’re Not Alone, and That’s a Gift
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…
How to Teach People How to Treat You—With Boundaries and Consequences
Issue 119. April 11, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Have you ever set a boundary with someone who didn’t honor it, and then you did nothing about it? That was me when I first started setting boundaries. I thought I could just state my boundary and people would honor it. I was…
The Real Reason You Keep Attracting the Wrong Partners
Issue 118. April 4, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Have you ever been in a situation where you were convinced that other people were the problem, and then you found out, “Oh, wait – it’s me? I’m the problem!” That may sound disheartening, but in fact it’s empowering. It’s empowering because, if…