People Pleasing & To-Do Lists?

I was listening to a podcast about people pleasing the other day. The host was sharing a long list of signs and behaviors of a people pleaser. As a recovering fixer, people-pleaser and rescuer, I am quite familiar with the signs and behaviors, as well as the internal...
The Self-Care of Boundaries

The Self-Care of Boundaries

It felt so good to be back partnering with the horses and doing group work! There is often a theme that arises when working with groups and last Saturday it was healthy boundaries. If we don’t have them, we teach others they don’t have to respect us. If we don’t teach...

Mom’s HSH invitation

My mom was a inspiring writer.  She made copies of some of her works for family and did a small self published book. Her writings were deep, inspiring, profound, spiritual and more. I have boxes of her poems and writings that I hope to someday get out to the world....

The Downside of Over-Responsibilty

Responsibility It’s important in order to be successful in life, in our jobs, in our relationships, in our financial lives, all of it. The positive of responsibility is being accountable, reliable and dependable to do the things we are expected to do or say we are...

Change and our old stories

Change. It’s constant. It’s normal and unavoidable as we move through our lives.  These past few years have certainly brought unexpected, life altering, sudden changes, running parallel or perhaps taking the stage of our own life changes.   How we respond to...

Grit with Grace Motivation!

This time of year I really start thinking about Grit with Grace – the kind that sometimes stretches my self-reliance skills – a lot of “do it herself” tasks. This kind of Grit with Grace is having some self-reliance skills, what I call basic...
Shifting Stories

Shifting Stories

The first part of this year has been a doozy with many demands and the sudden loss of my mother in the spring.  Along with this brings a realization that my story is shifting. The story I have told myself for the past many years about push and do and do for has...

Yes you can ~Confidence

During a quick and much needed mini-vacation to feed my soul with my friend Linda at her beautiful farm, Soulful Prairies, I was pondering my recent experiences and states of being. I was thinking about what gets in my way of not taking action or what keeps me from...

That Old Story

Just a few days ago I sent out an email to my list about how powerful the Equine Gestalt Coaching Method is to help us change our old stories that no longer serve us. Today I was bumping up against a few of my own old stories and had to chuckle at myself. It went...