The #1 Way to Avoid Settling in Relationships

A warm body in your bed isn’t enough. Wait for someone who knocks your knee high socks off. Who makes you forget about time and who you used to be. Who understands and accepts you completely. Today. As you are. Where you are. Who you don’t have to…

Sometimes We Need To Ask — Are We Part of the Problem or Are We a Solution?

Hey guys, let’s step up…

Is Your Life Coaching Career a Dream or a Goal?

Your answer to this question will determine whether you will actually become a life coach or just think about being one.

For most people, life coaching is a dream. It’s an idea that has been brewing inside them for years…

Life in the Catalyst Intensive: Your Story

Dear Self,

I bet you had no idea your story was going to be this way.

Two years ago, your heart was suddenly ripped from your soul and you were left exposed without a plan on how to save it.

It’s OK to Treat Yourself to the F’ing Coffee, Already

If you’re the type who consumes financial blogs, books and articles as I do, you’ve read the tip a hundred times to skip the morning coffee to save $5 a day, and just over a grand a year. If that’s the bit of your life that needs…

Life in the Catalyst Intensive: Ego

When Empathy Gets in the Way

I’ve been through three weeks of the Catalyst Coaching Intensive so far. Even at this early stage in the third week of the program, it’s difficult for me to express and comprehend how this course is changing my…

Growing Older and Nurturing Your Younger Self

Thanks to the way our brains are wired, we tend to focus on the negative. Painful life experiences stick out at us like Gertrude (your ever-persisting zit, making a constant return to your forehead). We find it easier to recall proof of how we…

Letters to Tender Heart — Be More. Be You.

Dear Heart:

Have you ever heard the term “Wallflower?” No? How about this one — “Shrinking violet?” Still nothing? Well then, I’ll tell you.

Telling Your Story to Achieve Growth

I was sitting across my boss in supervision, prattling on and on about the catastrophe of the stress inducing evening session. Heavily immersed in my story telling, sharing the details of what I was thinking, feeling, and experiencing, he politely interrupted and…

The Rules of This House

Vulnerability will be a strength. Not a weakness. We will try to understand before being understood. We will never walk away during a fight. Never assassinate one’s character. Never talk behind one’s back. There will be no labels in this house, only encouragement, support, and respect…