Getting In Touch With Your Emotions
In my work with coaching people, I often find that people are afraid to feel. In learning to avoid the negative emotions that produce pain, we inadvertently learn to turn off our emotions entirely. Much of the journey as a human being is often relearning how to feel. Each week, I will post a photo and ask two questions. What …
Coaching Insight: A Courageous Life
What is the most courageous thing you think you can do? This past week I’ve had several conversations and a coaching session around courage. And one person shared that he needed to do something really crazy courageous. As I asked him why, he thought that he needed to challenge himself in a way that would get him out of his …
Coaching Moment – Getting To Half Way
Recently I was working on a very large project for someone and I could just feel the burn. Everything inside of me was fighting the process of completing the project. And what was worse is that the resistance was coming form nowhere. I was competent, and capable. I had the resources. I just didn’t want to finish. The resistance was …
Coaching Thought – What Doesn’t Define You
Coaching Thought: I often wonder is life is the stage where we discover our mistakes and failures don’t define us. A little while ago I was coaching a guy who was wrestling with failure. He was lamenting the things he had done that had caused significant problems in his life. He was captivated by the idea that everyone saw him …
Coaching Thought – Projecting Fear
Coaching Thought: How much of our fears reside not in what is happening but what we think will happen? Recently I had the pleasure of working with someone who was really standing up to his sense fear. It was awesome to watch. And in the midst of our conversation, he had moments where he became captivated by his fear. It …
Coaching Moment – Leting Go Of The Victim
It’s easy to play the victim and it’s hard to play the victim. Recently I was coaching someone who was learning to move beyond the victim mentality. She had spent significant amount of our time recognizing the physical, emotional and psychological toll that went into holding onto the false identity of victim. She had gone through some significant work in …
Getting In Touch With Your Emotions
In my work with coaching people, I often find that people are afraid to feel. In learning to avoid the negative emotions that produce pain, we inadvertently learn to turn off our emotions entirely. Much of the journey as a human being is often relearning how to feel. Each week, I will post a photo and ask two questions. What …
Coaching Moment – Making It Through Suffering
A friend of mine called me this week. I’ve coached him on and off throughout the last couple of years. We talked for about an hour sharing stories about our families, our work, and our journey. He and his family have encountered some hard times during the recession and he’s still struggling. But the tone in his voice was noticeably …
Coaching Moment – A Powerful Story
What is the story behind everything you do? A little while ago I was coaching someone who was trying to overcome a deep sense of fear. This person was afraid God wasn’t going to like who she was if she was honest with herself about her own failures. So instead of being honest about them, she would overcompensate for them …
Getting In Touch With Your Emotions
Today I’m starting a new series of posts on Fridays called, Getting In Touch With Your Emotions. In my work with coaching people, I often find that people are afraid to feel. In learning to avoid the negative emotions that produce pain, we inadvertently learn to turn off our emotions entirely. Much of the journey as a human being is …
