Understanding Loyalty
“Adult Children are intensely loyal, even in the face of clear evidence that that loyalty is misplaced.” Janet Woititz* When we are little, we depend on our parents or caregivers for our survival. The grown ups are literally the only things standing between us and extinction. We love them with...
Supervision – somewhere to put things down.
Coaching can sometimes be a very challenging profession for me. I hear all my clients’ secrets and hurts, fears and dreams. I share their joy and their sadness, their triumphs and their defeats. And then I go home and can’t share it with anyone. Part of my contract with my clients is absolute confidentiality...
Resurrect Your Dreams
In the early days of my being a coach I had a conversation with Martha Beck about what I wanted to do with my coaching. I hummed and ha-ed and spluttered and mumbled and talked around in circles for a while (it was my first real, individual conversation with her and I was completely overwhelmed by enormity...
Love and Work
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” Way back in 1930 Freud made the observation that much of our life purpose is influenced by our ability to do meaningful work and our ability to love meaningfully. Not much has changed since then. We are still defined – rightly or wrongly–...
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