MAKING CHANGE: Create the Life you Want

03/01/2024

Hello! I am moving to a new page: James Yates, PhD, Awakening Coach Hope you will join me there! I will be closing this page April 1st (no fooling).

09/20/2023

Tap into your compassion for the earth at my upcoming online workshop, Thursday, October 19th, 6:30-8:30 pm.

We need to wake up and fall in love with the Earth. Our personal and collective happiness and survival depend on it. — Thích Nhất Hạnh

08/11/2023

There's still time to sign up for my upcoming free workshop. There are 2 contact hours of Continuing Education credits available for $15 through NBCC for mental health professionals. To register, go to http://www.agti.org/free-seminars.html.

04/05/2023

Want to make some changes?

You are invited to the next FREE Third Thursdays Online Workshop, THE POWER OF INTENTION, Thursday, April 20th, 6:30–8:30 PM (see below for details). This workshop is open for everyone. Invite a friend for an informal evening of discussion and interactive activities. The workshop is sponsored by t...

04/04/2023

Want to makes some changes?

You are invited to the next FREE Third Thursdays Online Workshop, THE POWER OF INTENTION, Thursday, April 20th, 6:30–8:30 PM (see below for details). This workshop is open for everyone. Invite a friend for an informal evening of discussion and interactive activities. The workshop is sponsored by t...

04/29/2022

Learn how to envision a circle of allies for rallying support for all the challenges you face and all the changes you want to make in your life. You are invited to my next FREE online workshop on Thursday, May 19th, 6:30-8:30.

04/28/2022

Learn how to envision a circle of allies for rallying support for all the challenges you face and all the changes you want to make in your life. You are invited to my next FREE online workshop on Thursday, May 19th, 6:30-8:30 pm.

03/05/2022

Learn how to facilitate cooperation between Top Dog, Underdog and Shepherd Dog — three aspects of your personality that are often ensnared in a dogfight, preventing you from making important changes in your life. My next free online workshop: Thursday, March 17th, 6:30-8:30 PM.

01/09/2022

Discover the meaning of your dreams at my next free online workshop, Thursday, January 20th, 6:30-8:30 PM.

01/01/2022

I was on Courteney Stuart’s radio program discussing how to make new year’s resolutions. Let’s make ‘em stick!

Podcasts Photo: clipart.com, NewsRadio WINA How to Make Your Resolutions Actually Stick | CRN Posted on December 30, 2021 by sfederico Psychotherapist and life coach James Yates offers tips on how to make New Year’s resolutions that actually stick.

06/26/2021

Excellent discussion and guidance regarding how to develop and set liberating intentions, and identify and transform unaware, self-defeating intentions that undermine our conscious intentions. https://www.tarabrach.com/from-limbic-to-liberating-intention/

We align life with our heart by becoming conscious of intentions. Discovering deeper longing - liberating intention - guides us to freedom.

06/26/2021

This is a great dialogue about all the ins and outs of nurturing self-compassion, including how to be compassionate towards our inner critic. https://www.tarabrach.com/fierce-compassion/

This conversation is on her latest book, Fierce Self-Compassion, which helps women awaken both receptive and active dimensions of compassion,

06/20/2021

I'm going to give this a go this week and see if I can find more time.

Sign up for A Better Week at any time and you’ll receive Day 1 the following Monday. You’ll get an issue every day through Sunday with productivity tips.

04/11/2020

This is a great opportunity to participate in a live online workshop with Rupert Spira.

Rupert Spira is inviting you to join him at his residence in Oxford for a Weekend Retreat at Home. Join him each day for two sessions including guided mediations followed by answers to your questions.

12/09/2019

I highly recommend this book for those of us white folks who intend to raise awareness of and uproot the often unaware, implicit racism (in our thoughts, emotions, speech and actions) that contributes to and is an extension of systemic racism. Here is a quote from the book:
"White people in North America live in a society that is deeply separate and unequal by race, and white people are the beneficiaries of that separation and inequality. As a result, we are insulated from racial stress, at the same time that we come to feel entitled to and deserving of our advantage. Given how seldom we experience racial discomfort in a society we dominate, we haven’t had to build our racial stamina. Socialized into a deeply internalized sense of superiority that we either are unaware of or can never admit to ourselves, we become highly fragile in conversations about race. We consider a challenge to our racial worldviews as a challenge to our very identities as good, moral people. Thus, we perceive any attempt to connect us to the system of racism as an unsettling and unfair moral offense. The smallest amount of racial stress is intolerable—the mere suggestion that being white has meaning often triggers a range of defensive responses. These include emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and withdrawal from the stress-inducing situation. These responses work to reinstate white equilibrium as they repel the challenge, return our racial comfort, and maintain our dominance within the racial hierarchy. I conceptualize this process as white fragility. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fragility_(book)?fbclid=IwAR0eK9BCxy1uRoHNT7et2on3kZagNrcwmXPYLUesqY2a3gixyyW4kDYTs-U

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism is a 2018 non-fiction book written by Robin DiAngelo.[1][2]

06/22/2019

What would it be like to meet your childhood self? Until time travel is invented, we’ll probably never know. But Montreal-based photographer Conor Nickerson used a handy little time machine called Photoshop to travel back in time photographically and hang out with his younger self. He photoshopped...

04/13/2019

If you, family members or friends have been taking SSRI’s (see below) over two years, I encourage you to read this article.
Citalopram (Celexa)
Escitalopram (Lexapro)
Fluoxetine (Prozac)
Fluvoxamine (Luvox)
Paroxetine (Paxil)
Sertraline (Zoloft)

Long-term antidepressant users are risking permanent damage to their bodies, according to leading medical experts.

04/06/2019

Researchers at Tufts University made the case that subsidized fruits and vegetables could prevent millions of cases of chronic diseases.