“There are two major things I cannot seem to overcome. I’m too wounded to love … and I’m too wounded to love.” I saw the puzzled look on her mentor’s face as she tilted her head to understand what she had heard from a very broken hearted woman. She continued: “I’m too wounded by life,…
With a very timid and quiet voice she half whispered, “I’m barely hanging on by a thread!” I know you’ve been there before. A moment when things were not going well at all, and you felt like you have slipped from what was “the end of your rope” to “hanging on by a thread.” I…
“I thought you might like to have this rusty propeller!” It was corroded and not really anything that I wanted to touch. But I could see the sincerity in his eyes when he handed it to me and I accepted it graciously. He had just completed Life Coaching 101 and revealed, “I came to your…
“Did you know our friend Anne died from a systemic infection?” The words stung and I could hardly believe what I heard. I could not breathe. Surely, I misunderstood. She’d been my dear friend for over 35 years. We’d spoken days earlier. Now, she was gone. Several years ago I had conducted an online webinar.…
“So what the hell am I supposed to do when she says something so stupid that I want to beat the hell out of her?” My response to the rageful question was not what he wanted to hear: “Feel the feelings… And do the right thing!“ My response is wisdom I learned from my stellar…