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All parents strive for what is best for their children. We create safe homes, cook nutritious meals, and provide them an education. Helping them learn often starts with reading them bedtime stories from the time they are babies. Watching parents decode the words in...

We've all been there. Or our child has. Needing to learn something but struggling to 'get it into our head' or 'figure it out.' Why is it sometimes so hard to learn, and other times it seems we aren't even trying? Is it the topic? Is it that we have the ability to...

There are a lot of interpretations of what coaching is and isn’t these days. It has become fashionable to say one is a coach even when most people have difficulty saying exactly what a coach is. I find an analogy with nursing helpful. Any person can support someone...

and that's a good thing. This week I lived through a personal experience that exemplifies to me how the ontological interpretation of emotions is useful for understanding and navigating life. The event that put things in motion was that an organizational client I...

and we never know where we'll end up. One of the great things about true conversations is that we end up learning things and exploring places we had no idea existed before. Sometimes they change the way we think and sometimes they reinforce it but somehow we see...

Recently this email arrived from a former student and coach: "Thanks so much for your email. I cried when I read it but, this time, the crying was good – felt nourishing. The emotion of 'dignity' feels very right. I was trying to get to “hope” because I thought...

I’ve always thought about awareness as something a bit mystical and difficult to pin down. It seemed like a good idea but I had put it into the “either you have it or you don’t” column. I’d come to think that either people “were" or "were not” aware. Very black and...

Looking back over the past 60 years of my life I can see that I have had several distinct relationships with my emotions and various strategies for how to co-exist with them. If it sounds like I am referring to them as something separate from “me” that is because...

We all know that emotions are not always easy to pin down. Somehow they seem a little slippery and, darn them, always changing. It is a big enough challenge sometimes just to name the emotion we are feeling precise. To make things even more interesting we not only...

Last week I wrote that we have emotions about our emotions. This week is a bit similar but in a different direction. We humans are “assessment machines”. It seems we cannot stop interpreting, developing opinions or creating beliefs about ourselves and the world...