Friday Fragments

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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 who honor it. I was…

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…

Issue 117. March 28, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ For years, I didn’t realize how brutally I spoke to myself in my own mind until I read a book that held up a mirror to my inner dialogue. It was When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth. She wrote out the exact…