From time to time I receive requests for tips from people who are thinking of becoming a life coach. Here are my top 12 tips: Hire a coach and experience coaching as a client. This will help you: Gain experience of what it is like to be coached and an appreciation of the power of the coaching process. Gain experience Read the Rest…

I am overjoyed to celebrate the good news:  THE MINI-RETREAT SOLUTION is a Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient. The Mini-Retreat Solution has now been honored 4 times: Mom’s Choice Awards®: Gold Living Now Book Awards: Gold Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Gold National Best Books: Finalist I am especially proud to receive this recognition because of the rigerous judging process Read the Rest…

My recent move to Victoria reminded me of the nature of transition with which I am intimately familiar through my work as a life coach and my own life experience. With each occurrence of a change we created, we naturally receive the gift of open space. Now open space is something that tends to be avoided at all costs and Read the Rest…

Love is …. not a box of chocolates, not a bouquet of flowers, not even a brand new sports car. Today as we are celebrating love, let’s remember that love is an action. Take action and take a few Mini-Retreats to help spread the love today. Mini-Retreats in your community: Make eye contact with a stranger as you are passing Read the Rest…

Frazzled and rushed? Struggling with the pressures of daily life? – You are not alone! Join us for an interactive Mini-Retreat workshop at Harmony Wellness Centre in Vancouver. Learn how to improve your health & happiness in minutes a day. I will share successful strategies of how to relax in quick, fun and guilt-free ways in the midst of your Read the Rest…

I came across a great book, “The Myth of Stress” by Andrew Bernstein.  He challenges the concept that stress is  ”occuring in response to adverse external influences” . We have been trained to accept that certain situations and events in life are inherently stressful: traffic jams divorce death of a loved one moving finances Holmes and Rahe even developed a scale that lists all the Read the Rest…

I have discovered a wonderful new way to relax:  Giving and Receiving head massages with a stainless steal head massager.  You can give yourself an energizing head massage, or you can give and receive head massages with your partner or a good friend. It is such a great idea that it has already been copied many times and now comes Read the Rest…

It is fascinating that the expression “to swim against the stream” is a metaphor for making choices in life that go against prevailing opinions. This is considered to be a challenge that is hard to attain. How interesting that we perceive natural phenomena to be difficult. When we think of salmon swimming upstream back to their place of birth or Read the Rest…

The New Year has just began and you may already be struggling to keep your New Year’s Resolutions. Even with the best of intentions to resolve to quit smoking, work out regularly, or make more money, many of us don’t follow-through and stick to our plans. It’s because many of us create expectations to live up to, rather than a Read the Rest…

How do you feel about making New Year’s Resolutions? Even with the best of intentions to resolve to quit smoking, work out regularly, or make more money, we already know how it’s going to turn out before we begin. Come January 5th, we won’t feel like it anymore. We create an expectation to live up to, rather than a vision Read the Rest…