What does it mean to create thought?I mean consciously.We all create thought all day long inadvertently.But what does it mean to consciously create the thoughts we think? Create: make or cause to be or to becomeThought: to form or have in the mind How many of us create the form we have in our minds?How [...]

Some of the common questions I get from clients are about making decisions.  They want to know if they should quit their jobs, leave their husbands, or move to a new city.  My direction for them is to clean up their thinking around the issue and then make the decision from a "clean" place.  There [...]

If you can allow for others to have judgments of you with no resistance back, you will taste a freedom most people will never experience.  Other people's judgments are about other people. Their opinions tell us about them, not you. Byron Katie taught me that pretty much any judgment anyone makes about me is somewhat [...]

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When we are upset, why do we call a friend?  I thought about this yesterday when a friend called me to tell me how upset she was.  After we talked for about 20 minutes (not coaching, just chatting) she told me she felt so much better.  I hung up the phone and thought about why. [...]

I don't like feeling the emotion of disappointment.   It sucks. I had to do a self coaching model (ok five self coaching models if you have to know the truth) on my feeling of disappointment over the last few weeks.  I have really been diving into this feeling and getting to know what it is [...]

Think about how this statement makes you feel.  Suspend your judgment of her (or him) for  a minute and think about what this thought causes you to feel. Check in with your body. Not so good right? I know that you think it is her you don't like, but really it is your THOUGHTS about [...]

You have heard me say it often: "The only reason you eat is a feeling." Your thoughts cause your feelings which cause your actions. So you have a negative thought that causes you to feel a negative feeling which causes you to fog eat. My advice is to feel the feeling instead of eating. But [...]

Recently, I was struggling with what to do in a highly tense situation. There were many people involved and some of them were having conflict and I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or make the conflict worse by making the “wrong” decision. I struggled and struggled in my mind asking myself, “Which course of [...]

I had a yucky experience today. It wasn't the circumstance so much as my thoughts about it that upset me. I realize that my thoughts create my feelings, but today it just didn't seem that way. It seemed like someone else was the cause. Someone I thought was my friend, someone I thought liked me [...]