Recognizing My “Too Muchness” as a Gift

A couple months ago, I upset a friend. I told her how I needed our friendship to be. I’m not sure I picked the right time (I’m not actually sure there is a right time), I probably didn’t use the right words and possibly not the right tone, but it was the right…

How My Hope Warrior Emerged One Year After Graduating from the Catalyst Coaching Intensive

Last October, I was on vacation, sitting at a kitchen table on the Oregon Coast. Thanks to technology, I was taking my last two Catalyst Intensive Coaching classes with…

6 Steps to Bounce Back After a Breakup

A break up can send you spiraling downward head first into the basement where you collect old thought patterns and negative beliefs about yourself in dusty mason jars. OR it can be the greatest soil for growth. It all depends on how you decide to see your break…

Life in the Catalyst Intensive, Week 2: Embrace

I have a deeply reinforced belief that the events in our lives occur for very specific reasons, as long as we are open to embracing them, and this course has proven to be no different.

Life in the Catalyst Intensive Week 4 — Self-Compassion

Relationships are tricky. As Chad elaborated on this week in our class on human relationships. Any time two people interact, it is more than just that one moment. Both people are coming to the table with scars and prejudices from past…

Start Over Now. Fear Fearlessly. Love Endlessly. Just Love.

Are there some days you wish you could just start over?

In my mind, starting over would begin at the beginning.

As a child, the meaning of life was inherent in my little soul, filled up with…

Growing Out of an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

Both of my parents were alcoholics and both died with many years of sobriety under their belt. After being a child of alcoholics, I became an alcoholic. But, I have not had a drink in almost 14 years. Having alcoholic parents set me up for…

The Lesson My Four-Year-Old Taught Me to Deal with Overwhelming Expectations

Some is better than none… a lesson from my four year old in facing anxiety and overwhelming expectations of day-to-day life.

Personal Growth Means Giving Up Something You’ve Held Onto for Way Too Long

Get honest, be accountable and own your crap.

Yikes.

As a clinical social worker, anytime I say that to a client I usually end up getting either a…

Changing Change During the Holidays

As our families change, so do our feelings. It may be the first Holiday when you are dealing with doubt, mistrust, anger or blame after divorce, separation. Or maybe that happened years ago, but you’re still triggered by the Holiday dance of events: who is going with…