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Life Coach Notes: Post Holiday Resting?
I am remiss in taking so long to write this, but I’ve been a bit busy. I’m going to role-reverse and share a bit from my life first. During the course of the last two months, my Paleo food plan went missing and my daily exercise program ran away from me. My daily meditation and…
Read MoreA Brief Rant on Mood, Food and Attitudes
“…the direct medical cost of overweight and obesity combined is approximately 5% to 10% of U.S. health care spending.” National Institutes of Health Houston, we have a problem. These words couldn’t be truer if you look at the dysfunctional romance we’ve developed with food. We are literally eating ourselves to death. I write “We”…
Read MoreCommunication 101: Emotionally Intelligent Communication Strategies and Tactics to Save Time, Money and Energy
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” ~John Wooden Shifting into a more emotionally intelligent communication style may seem like it’ll take more time, but in reality it will save time (hence the above quote). Misunderstandings, misinterpretations and faulty assumptions lead to ineffective and…
Read MoreDon’t Blame the Wind: Taking Response-Ability in Life
When I was in my early teens I was a bit of an athlete. Other than one very infamous year of Little League, it was mostly just playing football, baseball and basketball with the neighborhood kids. I was never very big or fast, but my mom said I was “graceful” and I guess that meant…
Read MoreThe “Other” A.D.D.: Addiction, Depression and Divorce and an Emotionally Intelligent Curriculum for Prevention, Expression and Connection
Addiction, depression and divorce…oh my! Like the unknown yellow brick road into the Land of Oz, confronting these three maladies can be very scary. And, from the statistics you’re about to see, apparently not important enough for us to put more resources into the prevention thereof. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse: The…
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