It was the spring of 1993… I was working as a sales rep for a plush toy company. Yup, that’s right… I sold teddy bears for a living! Sounds kinda fun, right?! Uhhhh. No. It wasn’t. (At least not for me.) To be honest, I freakin’ hated that job. Hated. It. Everything from working from home alone. Driving …
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“My life is so cluttered with should’s, that I can’t get to my want-to’s.” That’s what a coaching client, a woman in her 60’s, said to me once. She was stuck in a loop. Going round and round. Doing what she thought she should do. Rather than what she wanted to. No surprise she felt trapped. …
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When I was a child I loved to play. On any given day you could find me happily: 🚲 Riding my blue bike furiously up and down the street. My rainbow-coloured handle-bar tassels and messy blond hair flying in the wind. 🏠 Building elaborate doll houses (using scraps from my Dad’s wood pile) for my …
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Have you ever thought about your life as a book? And each stage as a chapter? I hadn’t. That is, until I found myself sitting in my therapist’s office back in 2004. When my son was just a baby, and I was going through a painful divorce. In the middle of my session that day, my …
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I have a confession to make… I hate gardening. OK, maybe hate is too strong of a word. I dislike gardening. A LOT. You see I’m a finicky Virgo, and I can’t stand getting my hands dirty. Totally creeps me out. Always has. Not to mention I’m afraid of bugs! Especially spiders! (I once jumped …
“I’m so tired.” Those were the words I heard myself saying A LOT recently. Which surprised me. But in hindsight, really shouldn’t have. It’d been a bumpy two months. Shortly after returning from a fabulous trip to Mexico in February, I got hit with covid. Which flattened me for a week. Then Vancouver had one of …
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