Never before has there been more of a need to tap into your resilience.â
This world right now requires GRIT.â
The hunger to get back up again, to go back into the proverbial arena, and to show up boldly like never before. â
People are looking for leaders. I don't care whether you have one person following you, 20 people in your group, or 20,000. â
To paraphrase one of my awesome clients, Jessica McCann who wrote her thesis on resilience and grit, shared on my podcast, the life experience and training ground of strengthening your resilience muscle is waaaaaaay different than theorizing about it.â
You know the payoff.â
Maybe it's having that amazing body that you feel so confident in...so you get up and you go for that run or you do that ...
When I was a kid, I would have nightmares - horrible dreams that someone was chasing me with the intent to hurt me. After weeks of experiencing the same dream over, and over, my mom told me, âTurn and face it. Whatever it is that youâre running from, turn and face it?â
Maybe itâs grief.
Maybe itâs fear.
Maybe itâs anger.
Maybe itâs shame.
Maybe itâs guilt.
Maybe itâs a combination of all of them.
Your subconscious mind represses negative memories until itâs ready to process them. It does it because it loves you. It does it to keep you safe, to protect you. It does it because it loves you.Â
In times of crisis, sometimes this repressed, hidden, shadow side comes out. It gets triggered. The sleeping giant awakens.Â
You fear itâs too big. Too powerful. Too strong to face.Â
Youâre David and it feels like a mother-fucking behemoth, roided-out version of Goliath.
It doesnât take much to face the shadows. But it does take courageâŠand maybe on...
Ever look back on an event in your life and see EXACTLY why that happened to you?
You see the lessons, the learning, the growth. Maybe you see how it shaped you as a human to be more compassionate or more ambitious or more organized. Maybe you look back on that thing with appreciation, or gratitude or just a deep satisfaction that you were strong enough and had the resilience to pull through, even when things looked their bleakest. Maybe youâre just fuckjng grateful you survived, because, there were times when you didnât think you could...but you did.Â
Youâre here. Reading this.Â
When you were in it, you didnât know how it would turn out. You didnât know youâd be okay, days or decades later.Â
You did the best you could with the information and the resources you had at that time.Â
Looking back now, from this new place of courage or boldness or motivation, is NOT who you were back then.Â
Youâve ch...
In times of crisis, whether it's COVID-19 or the threat of another financial recession, what do you do with a problem?
One of my favorite books to read to Declan is âWhat Do You Do with a Problem.â (I recommend it to my adult clients as well...as basically, everyone.)Â
In the story, a little child discovers he has a problem. He didnât want it. He didnât ask for it. He really didnât like having a problem...hey, who does, right?Â
He tries to avoid it. He tries to pretend itâs not there. He tries to ignore it but itâs still there.Â
And the more he ignores it the bigger the problem becomes.Â
Kind of like our emotions.Â
Everyone experiences negative emotions. I donât care how positive you are, or how many OMâs and affirmations you do, as we go through this life we experience a rainbow of emotions, some darker shades than others.Â
But we donât like those negative emotions. They feel icky. Yucky. Or way too powerful to âdealâ with.
Most of our conditioning has taught us to âdea
...In times of crisis, whether itâs COVID-19 or the looming financial crisis, where is joy? Where did that illustrious angel of vibrancy go? Did she disappear?
No. You just missed her.Â
Joy is only found in the present moment, really being 100% fully in the present moment.
She is rarely found in the past for she is either tainted with âwhat could have beenâ or âwhat should have beenâ or âwhat would have been.â
And she is rarely found in the future, where Fear is a stakeholder in monopolizing your thoughts.Â
No, joy is in the present. She lives and breathes there, praying that you will tap into her.
Sheâs in the whisper of the wind against your skin. Sheâs in the experience of your partnerâs touch as he passes you. Sheâs is in the burrowing of the large bowling ball of your childâs head into your chest as he says âmama, cuddle me.â
Yes, joy lives in the moment - in being fully fucking in it, present in the experience of life, both in what you do and who you be.Â
Youâre breathing ar...
It is in the face of chaos on and crisis that who you are, who you have been working on becoming comes to light.
This is when the rubber meets the road, sweetheart.
Who do you BE when fear smacks the world in the face with a two-by-four?
Coronavirus is one thing. Yes, it is contagious and there are fears when it comes to that.Â
And, sure, you may have some fears about staying at home for a few weeks cooped up with the fam.
But, the financial impact of shutting businesses and schools down when 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck will hit...hard.
The fact that the stock markets just hit their largest dip worldwide since 1987.Â
The fact that the Federal Reserve just 96 hours ago invested $1.5 Trillion dollars in short-term loans. (HINT: the last time they did that...it was 2008.)
And, the mentors, experts, doctors and top-level investors that I listen to are saying...
As you know, I made my commitment, I would be finished with this book by Summer. Summer is nearly here.
And I am much closer, far closer - 76,000 words.
Between 200-354 pages.
Now Iâm just filling in the gaps, connecting the dots between the Virginia Woolf stream of consciousness stories, analogies, and metaphors to the meaning, the meat, the action steps of personal development...
And I go deep - into the fears, frustrations, programming, patterns, myths, trends, and collective issues as a whole that one by one we MUST reshape around our perceptions of what and how we eat and how we perceptive our bodies.
It is an outpouring of the ten years of pain and frustration that I had figuring out HTF was I going to heal from an eating disorder. How did I need to start thinking about myself? And how
...The creative process is a lot like eating shit.
How do I know? I've literally tried it. Obviously this was not an intentional thing...
Over a delicious Sunday breakfast of waffles and jam, I was sitting with my son on the couch, reading as we gloriously reveled in carby goodness - okay, I was the one doing the reveling. Declan was enjoying the usual.
Heâs recently discovered textures - bumpy, sticky, gooey, rough, smooth, tickly. So, when it comes to food weâll normally play a game if his hands are sticky with jam. Heâll hold out his hand with a whine, saying âdirtyâ and Iâll be the vacuum cleaner and gobble up his fingers. Cute, right? Right.
Until itâs notâŠ
I missed the moment in our interchange - it was probably in my own moment of bliss, closing my eyes and savoring the sweet, figgy taste of waffles - when Declan stuck his fingers in his diaper.
It was him saying âdirtyâ and the whine that followed that jolted me out of my mouthful of meditation.
Mom was ready to play the âL...
I see it, day in and day out. Women who are overwhelmed, overworked, over-stressed, and underappreciated. With so many things hanging over our heads these days, it's no wonder we can some times feel like "It's killing us."
But is it really?
As a coach in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, when I work with my clients, I take what they are saying LITERALLY. So, sometimes, like in the case of a client saying "it's killing me," it may sound extreme, but I take them seriously. You see...
Your language is a command to consciousness itself.
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If I ask you to create a picture of your dream life, and you say you can't "see" it. In NLP, I take it as, you LITERALLY cannot make a picture of your dream life in your head. You don't see the snapshot of that vacay photograph of you sipping a latte across from your lover while working on your laptop after some damn good lovemaking. You can't see it.Â
If I ask if you understand the concept, and you don't, I haven't given you enough logical evidence to help you gai...
Iâll never forget the feeling of my head hitting the bathroom wall as I stumbled over the tub, stunned that Iâd been pushed violently across the room by a man I loved. Iâll never forget the time I was sitting in a truck at a gas station in New Orleans, waiting on my guy to pay for gas, and a random man stuck his hand through my rolled down window and felt up my thigh. Iâll never forget the time my Krav Maga training came in handy at a nightclub in Vegas, when a man tried to physically restrain me from leaving âhisâ VIP table.Â
I say that though not as a victim, because, for me, if I identify with that label (consciously), then it takes me out of my powerâŠand it gives it to those men. Now, I love men. Iâm married to a great one and Iâm raising great one. My mission, though, has always been for women and as a coach, I focus on the future.Â
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