For Your Life Coach

10/09/2024

For those of you not playing the home game with me, I've been living in Miami since the middle of June and expect that to continue for several months. I have been caring for my critically ill mother having had a couple weekends off. This is not a situation where she will recover. Nor is it a situation where she is going to die. No need for speedy recovery wishes, that's not in the cards. I'm cleaning up her past, guarding her present, and creating a path for her next chapter.

Unfortunately, I was to attend the wedding of very dear friends but cannot leave due to Milton. We're as ready as possible. We have homes on both coasts of Florida. We are in the area that Hurricane Ian nailed. That place is as prepared as possible. I've done all the things for the tropical storm we'll experience here in Miami. I'm an old hand at hurricanes-- you can't be a Florida coastal girl and not know. I consider myself fortunate for the full tank of gas, having handled all the outdoor everything, and food is being prepped in case of electric outages.

I hope everyone on the west coast has come inland or left Florida. Milton, with it's tiny little eye, is not playing. I'm thinking of all of you up and down the west coast and really hoping everyone comes through this. Stay safe.

02/08/2024

Did you take time to do something for someone else not because you were compelled to do so, just because it was the next right thing to do?

Meet people where they are and at their pace.

02/03/2024

Please help Ms. Mia and her family who are a cherished member of the SELF tribe. They have experienced such heartbreak and need our communities at this time. Please be generous. Please share the post. Please tag people. Let's get this goal done.

Adolfo U. 09/03/1942. —- 02/03/2024 Born in Colombia, SA. Our Ms. SELF 2022 nee… Catherine Gross needs your support for Adolfo U. beloved father.....

11/23/2021

Create you own best outcomes.

Study says that physical activity later in life shifts energy away from processes that compromise health and toward mechanisms in the body that extend it.

09/23/2021

Having parts of your identity respected can be crucial to feeling understood.

Despite debates over which term best describes a population of 62.1 million, embracing their identities on their own terms is empowering and necessary.

09/15/2021

Celebrate the history, culture and contributions Hispanic and Latinx Americans have made!

06/30/2021

We are living in a changed world. We are not who we were in March 2020. Our work lives need to shift with us. Find the space and pace for your better mental health.

Forget the company retreat. Workers want actual time off — and some companies are willing to give it to them, recognizing that bringing workers back to the office is creating additional stress.

03/29/2021

Exercise your ability to feel happy. Take the time to use your imagination. Allow yourself to dream about what makes your happy. Take some time to recall what it feels like to be happy.

Try not to focus so much on what makes you happy and perhaps you’re missing or have not had access to enjoy. Just hone in on how you feel. Let your focus expand around being happy.

Deliberately smile. Now smile more broadly. Let your smile broaden as if it’s responding to your focusing on feeling happy.

Do this for three minutes and comment below to tell me how it worked out!

02/11/2021

If not today, then when? Caring about another person and expressing authentic concern for another is an inroad to your own happiness. Give and create a return path to yourself. It's a miracle how much we receive by giving to another.
Find your groove where you give to yourself in equal measure and how so much you can give to others. Hold yourself in the same regard you hold another. If that feels like a stretch-- just do actions and say words that you would admire someone else saying and doing. Give it a try and see what happens.

02/06/2021

Do you feel that you're on solid ground? If so, what keeps you there? If not, what is missing for you?
The pandemic has changed everything. Maybe what grounds you has changed also. I know you are good at change. You've been doing it your whole life. And if you're laughing, now-- that's great. You still can change even when it was not your first choice. Give yourself a bit of change. It does not need to be massive, just a little something different that makes you smile.
Feel your own roots. Dig down to where you know yourself and connect to yourself. It's really where safety and security lives.