The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

We arrive in this world undivided, integral, whole. But sooner or later, we erect a wall between our inner and outer lives, trying to protect what is within us or to deceive the people around us. Only when the pain of our dividedness becomes more than we can bear do most of us embark on…

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Feast on your life.

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to…

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The Human Spirit

I am often asked, “What do you do?” When I was an Optometrist, it felt easy to answer (for several reasons). 1. People seemed to know what I did – what an Optometrist was: “I am an Optometrist”, and if someone didn’t know what that was, I could clarify with, “I am an Eye Doctor”.…

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What’s your approach?

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he didn’t start trying to improve the candle. He decided that he wanted better light and went from there.

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Work Smarter, Not Harder

Stress and anxiety often come from too much expectation and too much ambition. The Dalai Lama – The Book of Joy   Many of my clients are self-proclaimed Type-A personalities. They are very ambitious and have become very successful professionals.  What I (and they) often find interesting is that they realize that this ambition is…

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Are You Like Me?

Just over 6 years ago, I was a different person than I am today. I used to go at high-speed through my whole day. I would wake up early, jump out of bed to get the list of things I needed to do within the day done. I glorified and exemplified busy. I was not…

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To Live Intimately with Your Life

Before we begin this journey together, you have a right to know what motivates me, why I seek to live intimately with my own life and the world. The most truthful answer to this is the simplest: because I have to. I am compelled by some deep hunger of the soul, driven by a desire…

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Intent- HOW we do something- creates Impact

Letting go of obligation has dramatic impact. Sometimes, preparing a meal when I am tired and cranky and want to argue with the assertion that popcorn is not an entrée, I catch myself grumbling, and I stop for a minute. I sit down in a chair and take a deep breath. I feel my weariness…

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Coaching is about ‘Seeing Clearly’

In my first career I practiced as an Optometrist. I helped people with their sight every day for 16 years. I often joke that I got the message to work with people’s vision when I was 14, and after I took it figuratively for years, I realized that it was actually the vision of one’s life that…

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And, this is living.

This poem…. I am standing upon the seashore.  A ship at my side spreads her sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.  She is an object of beauty and strength and I watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky…

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