Category: coaching
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The Passion vs. Purpose Series III: Redefining Life After 55
Welcome to the third and last part of the Passion vs Purpose Series. It has been quite the journey writing these entries and I hope that this one will resonate with many of you. All three parts have been written from a very personal perspective, based on most of my own experiences. The thing is,…
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The Passion vs. Purpose Series II: Finding Your North Star After 40
As I slowly approach my 60s, I felt the need to look back on my life and break it down into decades, as one does, and compare them in order to understand my present state. I have to admit, my 40s were full and busy, but also a time when I felt lost and alone…
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The Passion vs. Purpose Series I: An Inspired Life for 18-25
Welcome to the Passion vs. Purpose Series! This is a three-part series subdivided into age groups that I have been meaning to write for a long time but life got in the way somehow. But I trust that universe had a reason for waiting until I was ready to finally buckle down and share my…
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Life Coach vs. Therapist: Who Should You Call?
I was recently asked what the difference is between a life coach and a therapist and that question became the springboard for this blog entry. I could bore you with the formal definitions and lose your attention after the first paragraph, but I would rather take you by the hand and walk you through it…
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Feng Shui Tips: Don’t Eat At Your Desk
The worst enemy of productivity is clutter, regardless of whether you approach this from a psychological or esoteric perspective. In Feng Shui clutter leads to an imbalance if Chi and consequently, stagnation of growth and progress. Let’s talk about workspace clutter and why you shouldn’t eat at your desk. If you have your own office…
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Using Animal Reiki With Feral Cats
One of the more challenging experiences as a Reiki practitioner is animal and pet reiki. Unlike humans, animals don’t verbalise their needs like humans do, so you have to rely entirely on energy body scan to detect what is lacking and what they need. I have been using animal Reiki to “communicate” with the feral…
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Jumpstarting Your Mornings
Why are some days more difficult to get out of bed than others? This can be attributed to a number of factors, ranging from lack of sleep, stress that awaits you in the day, or from an esoteric perspective, an imbalance of energies in both your body and immediate environment. When you open your eyes,…
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Soul Time Checklist**
There comes a time in our lives where we undoubtedly ask ourselves whether we can still do, reach, obtain, attain, understand, pursue, appreciate, enjoy certain things that we thought we would never outgrow or swore never to tire of. Sadly, we tend to surrender certain luxuries that used to nourish our souls from within for whatever…
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Allow Yourself
Some years ago I found a poem by Catherine Pulsifer, originally published in 2009. It stopped me dead in my tracks. Allow Yourself Allow yourself to dream,And when you do dream bigAllow yourself to learnAnd when you do learn all you canAllow yourself to laughAnd when you do share your laughterAllow yourself to set goalsAnd when…
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Conversations with Buddha
My neighbour in Berlin once invited me to tag along to a Buddhist Meditation Center in lieu of our planned cup of tea on the balcony. There was a lot going on at the Center that weekend, she said, so it might be worth checking out the activities. It was a great pleasure to step…
The Esoteric Frog 