Newsletter Archive

O​ver the last two months, we’ve been through it. I’ve have many  conversations  with clients about managing fears while so much change is happening so fast, and yes, I’m referring to the pace of changes with the US government. Plus, during February, many of you found yourselves in bed with nasty bouts of covid, flu,

My 10, 11, and 11 year olds play sports on club teams, and that means we often shlep to sport. There are tournaments everywhere and as a result, I spent last weekend at Lake Placid. (I’ll get into the kid-sports industrial complex another time, but for now I’m going with it.) As a coach, my

As the year comes to an end, I like to evaluate. And I like a new toy that helps me go wider, deeper, more thoroughly into where I’ve been so that I can catapult forward. A client passed this nifty tool to me, and I would like to share it with you:https://yearcompass.com It’s a downloadable

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about moving through challenges. It’s an occupational hazard – you don’t book a session when things are easy, you come when things are hard. People come when the flow ain’t flowing, and we work to get it back. I recently met with a trusted advisor. She diplomatically observed, “Some

I used to have a word of the day calendar when I was a kid; I loved reading the words each morning. I bought one for my kids, they broke it and had no interest.  I’m still a word geek. When I took my son to Boston this weekend, I had to introduce him to a great local

I got into a semantic debate with a client recently around the word “fight”. He argued he needed to fight for his goals and I suggested a gentler approach, that the right choices would be revealed. He did not like this.  In time, we aligned on the concept of downhill skiing. The mountain helps you,

Ahhh…the glorious, magical, life changing 24-hour rule. My son’s hockey club references the 24-hour rule in their club rules. Sportsengine, a popular sports scheduling app, describes it here. But you don’t need paragraphs of explanation to get it. It’s as basic as the golden rule: If you’re losing your cool, take 24 hours to chill out so you

I have two clients who returned to grad school this season. Neither of them started working with me thinking this would happen, but now they’re as happy as pigs in mud.  And they didn’t just enter any programs, these are save-the-world folks who will be helping us to combat climate change and the national loneliness