Posts Tagged ‘Relationships’

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…