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In our society there are so many tools, techniques, softwares and coachings available to us. There are tons of different things that we can get and technologies we can put in place and people we can rely on to he...
There are so many coaching modalities to choose from...
Why is sympathy free coaching more productive than the standard counseling you would find at a brick and mortar?
At EncompassLIFE, we often work in small group environments. Meaning, we can really show people what we’re doing. I...
Here is a simple trick to get you "unstuck" when you draw a blank in the middle of a coaching session.
If the first thing that comes up when you get stuck is “Oh crap, I’m stuck.”, analyze the feeling that comes with that thought. The feeling is usually shame. More often than not, there is ...
A lot of coaches can easily coach others but experience stuck feelings and stagnancy in t...
Why you won't be able to move through not knowing what to do in the middle of a session until you shift your feelings towards the situation when that happens..
A good way to think of it is that everything is going to fall into the category of hate or love. If I don’t love something then I have less t...
Have you ever read the Foxfire books or remember the Foxfire project in the 1970’s? In the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, high school students interviewed folks living in small mountain cabins, free from plumbing and electricity, about their life experiences. Some of the residents were bor...
“People with a poverty vocabulary live in poverty. People with rich vocabularies live in riches.”
Those of us in America were born into a society with a limited use of language. Our common English is a watered down version of the original, which perhaps came together as a mish-mash of other European ...
Einstein once said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”
As the saying goes, “The quality of your...
Many people suffer from a condition that they label as anxiety. They complain about it. Stuff it down. Ignore it. Some escape and medicate it with alcohol, drugs, pharmaceuticals, sex, any excess to try to move away from discomfort and toward pleasure. There is another way. Let’s dissect the situati...
“Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
This quote, attributed to Albert Ei...
“Breathe it all in, love it all out.”
How much attention do you give your life-giving breath? What happens to it when you are laughing uncontrollably? When you are excited? When you are exercising? When you are cuddling with your favorite cuddle buddy? Now, compare that to what happens to your breath...
One of the biggest challenges as a coach is helping someone move from wanting to having.
The word want means to desire without ever having. Imagine if someone is living in that craving, without ever tasting those fruits, and the feelings that can arise in this situation: anger, frustration, hat...
Many of us were conditioned to believe that our emotions are low on the scale of daily importance. We were trained to button our lips, be polite, stay attentive, show obedience, and cause little disruption. To those others might have been added. Shush. Quiet your anger. Stop crying. Be quiet. Watch ...