What You Need To Know About Lying to Your Therapist
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5M ago
  Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels Clearly seeing reality is a waystation toward the goal of enhancing your wellbeing. As you might imagine, lying to your therapist impairs both your and your therapist’s ability to see that reality. If you’re like most people, you’ve probably lied to your therapist. In their book, Secrets and Lies in Psychotherapy, the authors report that between 84 and 93% of clients lie to their therapists, often about multiple things. This isn’t terribly surprising since research has shown that the average person lies once or twice a day. Consider yo ..read more
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Before Offering Advice To Adult Children Consider This One Question
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8M ago
Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich on Pexels   When I decided to marry at the ripe old age of 19, I did not seek my parents’ advice. They thought it was a terrible idea (spoiler alert: they were right) but they did not let on. Had they, I would not have listened. And I would have been angry. I knew what I was doing. At a certain age, we all become experts. We have advice for friends, co-workers, acquaintances, and, of course, our adult children. Whether married, divorced, remarried or never-married, we believe we know what everyone else should do on these matters, and myriad others ..read more
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Buy Less and Use More? Explorations in Changing our Consumption Patterns
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1y ago
Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels Underuse and overbuying lead to too much stuff. Understanding why you buy and contemplating changes in your behavior is the road to change.   Did you know The Princess of Wales wore a rented gown to a gala in 2022? It was an event focusing on solutions to pressing environmental concerns and attendees were asked to focus on sustainability in attire, but she’s not alone. Cate Blanchette opted to re-wear only, i.e., no new outfits, at a film festival in 2020. In 2019, Jane Fonda vowed not to buy any more clothes. The average garment is worn only ab ..read more
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What Makes A Marriage Work Long-Term?
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1y ago
In "25 Experts Explain What Choices Make A Marriage Actually Work Long-Term," you'll find suggestions for making your relationship be the best it can be. My recommendation is: Always make new memories. Communicate, compromise and connect.  Talking and listening lead to essential compromise on the changes that inevitably occur as the years go by.  Connect by doing things together, creating new memories, and you keep things fresh! Read more here...   ..read more
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What Can You Do About Ageism? Play By Your Own Rules
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1y ago
Photo by Vlad Sargu on Unsplash Take charge and do things that create wellbeing regardless of your age. While minding my own business, reading a book review on-line, up pops an ad, “Finally, A Great Lipstick For The Mature Woman.” Later, on a weather app, “Trendy Dresses for Older Women.” Google, as always, was minding my business. It’s not just the internet pointing out your age, it’s other people. From the physician telling you after a fall that hiking is something to reconsider, to the endless griping about the gerontocracyin our government, people tell us we’re old and t ..read more
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Eulogy For My Post-Divorce Cat
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2y ago
The loss of a pet yields a unique type of grief. Some people’s, post-divorce acquisition is a home, other’s a car, but since I got the house and did not need a new car, mine was a cat. It’s a rite of passage for the newly single, perhaps the first time they have made a major purchase solo. Or, as in my case, the first time in a long time. The cat was not really a solo acquisition. It was my son and me. It was the first big thing we did together post-divorce that was just the two of us. Eighteen and a half years ago we drove to a double-wide in a slightly more rural area than ours, too close t ..read more
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The Quest to Mindfully Engage with the Moment
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2y ago
Learning to let go of each moment in order to be fully present in this moment is key to mindfulness.  Being present in the moment is a mindfulness essential. Unless you've willfully ignored 15 years of health and wellness articles, you know that research shows that mindfulness meditation improves health and wellbeing in a variety of ways (e.g., it reduces anxiety, depression and blood pressure). The jury is in: Cultivating mindfulness makes a lot of sense. To be in this moment, you must release all those moments that came before. This idea of letting go of each moment before the present ..read more
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Coping with Anxiety is Not One Size Fits All
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3y ago
Whether your anxiety predates the pandemic or not, the solution is unique to you. Photo by Tom Fisk from Pexels During the pandemic I learned I am an ambivert. It was the A.Word.A.Day, word of the day one day and it fits. Neither introvert nor extravert, ambiverts, according Anu Garg, have qualities of both. It brings to mind something I’ve been pondering during this pandemic—the notion that one size does not fit all, whether in clothing or people. Be it those one-size-fits-all running hats, how introverted you are, how you cope with your anxiety or how you grieve a ..read more
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Am I Allowed to Have Post-Pandemic Complaints?
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3y ago
 Because I have not experienced the bone-crushing losses due to COVID that many have, I hate to complain about how it will be post-pandemic. Nevertheless, as we are possibly just emerging from the thick of it, I'm going to give myself the grace I've been telling others to give themselves and go ahead and complain. Last week we went to Gibbs Gardens, a lovely, wooded spot in Ball Ground, Georgia—no, I'm not kidding about that name. You can see from my photos that it is indeed a beautiful place. The day was intentionally selected to avoid crowds. And it was not crowded. I shudd ..read more
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Bring Your COVID-19 Coping Skills Forward Into The New Year
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3y ago
  There’s considerable research in psychology to suggest that after a trauma we can come back stronger than before. We can become more resilient. Tragedy can trigger the development of new coping skills. This is the case with the coronavirus pandemic. Now is the time to notice any positive habits you've developed and decide to keep them moving into 2021. No one expects the virus to vanish on January 1st, but we're edging closer, so deciding on your intentions post-virus can help you maintain those healthy routines. Here are some examples: People are exercising and getting outside more. A ..read more
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