Donna OLeary, LLC

09/28/2021

A few ideas about managing old diet mentality thoughts.

Here in Tucson, the heat continues with added monsoon humidity. This is also the month where I find myself getting SICK of wearing the same summer clothes. Today I randomly grabbed a shirt from my closet that happens to ...

01/12/2021

An inspiring message from an old friend who is an example of leaving the comfortable corporate world and creating her own success. If you work with QuickBooks, this publication is for you!

Mastering QuickBooks 2021 - Second Edition: The ultimate guide to QuickBooks Online and bookkeeping

12/11/2020

Gretchen Rubin with some good ideas when your holiday travel plans are cancelled.

I wrote before about how I was dealing with the uncertainties related to the holidays.Well, now those uncertainties have become certain.Every year, we go to Kansas City to spend the holidays with m...

12/07/2020

Some good thoughts from the Life Coach School.

10/20/2020

As always, a thoughtful article by my friend Dr. Georgi Rausch. What are you tolerating?

My friend recently shared a story about a man whose dog was howling and crying and his neighbor asked him what was going on: “The dog is sitting on a nail.” “Well, why doesn& #8217…

07/25/2020

Did you weigh yourself this morning? Such a loaded question, right?

In my years of coaching I can only recall one client who weighed herself regularly; many women didn’t even own a scale. We are obsessed with our weight, yet we don’t really want to know what it is. Psychology might call ...

07/16/2020

Like so many other businesses impacted by the pandemic, my local yoga studio closed this month.
Out of this unhappy result came some happy results in the form of online classes. I was skeptical
that it would really work but a great in-person teacher is also great online. This is a link to
free videos by one of the best, Becky Thomas. I hope beginners and experienced yogis will
give it a try. She doesn't disappoint.

Let your breath and movement shape and build these yoga poses. This is a soft flow of movement and breath inspired by Bruce Lee's quote: "Don't get set into ...

07/10/2020

Some of you might remember a very popular memoir called The Liar’s Club by the author Mary Karr. Karr’s father was a working class Texan who belonged to a group of men who hung out at a poolroom telling stories, some r...

07/05/2020

Just found this website. Lots of good ideas for better living. I especially liked this article because we all need a sanctuary where we can breathe, right?

Breathe more life into your space.

07/01/2020

Emotional eaters cause ourselves so much unnecessary suffering and cognitive dissonance.
In this blog you can read about how to let go of the suffering...and how I won $5

When people ask me what a Weight Loss Coach does, I talk about emotional overeating and the unnecessary suffering we cause ourselves over our weight. We create our own pain with our thoughts and then we argue with our th...

06/22/2020

“I can either have a happy life, or I can eat lettuce and broccoli forever."

06/17/2020

My nephew is not sure what to do with his life. College has been difficult and disappointing. Add to that now everything is online and there are no summer internships available in his field. Because he can’t find any goo...