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MORE…yes, more….a 2025 goal! We are often told to be grateful for what we have.  …but what if we are?…and what if we want more? REFLECT I was challenged by my good friend, Jenece, to find my word for 2025 at a retreat I led. I took her up on it and the word MORE came […]

Wanting And Getting More Of What You Want In Your Life

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Can take over your life.Hyper-vigilance means you’re on most of the time-which actually slows you down. It looks like:  It amounts to  I am not good enough; I need to keep going, striving, pushing…TO BE ENOUGH. REFLECT Why are you hyper-vigilant?   Does something not feel safe in your life or at work, forcing you […]

Hyper-Vigilance

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Wondering…helps our nervous system slow down and chill out, while creating a state of flow REFLECT Can you set up a time this week to just wonder?  No agenda, no goal, just letting your mind rest…

Wondering-The New Way To Rest And Refocus

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“We are born makers”…when was the last time you made something with your hands?   THE WHAT When was the last time you created something…? How far back do you have to go? Yesterday, last week, last year…?   If you cast your mind back to your childhood, do you have memories of making and creating? […]

The Power Of Creating With Your Hands

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some of my favorite people are intriguing, unique, and bold contradictions THE WHAT Being a contradiction and resisting fitting into a box allows you to embrace the full complexity of who you are, rather than limiting yourself to labels or categories.  THE WHY Authenticity  When you accept that you can be both bold and gentle, […]

Be a Contradiction..

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THE WHAT People are sometimes afraid of power.  Afraid of their own power. Power means operating from a place of inner strength, confidence, and authenticity. It involves being true to yourself and your values while effectively influencing and inspiring others. It feels like inner peace, calmness, clarity, a grounded confidence, a deep belief in your abilities, […]

POWER VS FORCE

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THE WHAT We all need V2 in our lives. We come to crave growth, change, or simply something new. Is it a V2 at work, with a new boss, with a new team, or an entirely new opportunity?  Or maybe in our lives with a new adventure, a new town, a new community, a new […]

YOUR V2 is going to be awesome! 

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Speaking up on your own behalf is the purest form of self respect. THE WHAT My practice is about helping people find their voices through building quiet confidence and undeniable presence.   Quiet confidence is not quiet, so to speak, and it’s all about self-advocacy.    Self advocacy is confidently honoring and expressing your needs, desires, […]

Self-Advocacy

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The Power of Quiet Confidence THE WHAT We all have a few people in our lives that that have quiet confidence.   It’s subtle, but strong, it’s genuine and kind, it’s grounded and unassuming, and it feels calming to be around.    Quite confidence is the idea of developing a self belief that is deeply rooted in […]

Quiet Confidence creates powerful waves

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THE IDEA We never really talk about what gives us energy and what drains us, maybe because we are expected to just accept things asthey are. Yet often we find ourselves exhausted, annoyed, anxious, irritated with others, maybe irritated with life and we don’t know why. Or the opposite-excited, joyful, light, curious, invigorated. The idea […]

What drains you? What gives you energy?

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