While nature rests, hibernates, composts, and embraces fallow seasons, humans put an immense pressure on ourselves to maximize and "reach our potential." What happens when we are in a season of life that is urging us to slow down?

A reflection on coaching when the world is a mess, when the world breaks your heart.

Hating our current self isn’t the way to genuine, deep-rooted change. What if we let self-love guide our transformations instead?

In coaching we welcome our monsters and our magic. We take our disguises off and behold our full selves. From this place we can build the life of our dreams.

What happens when "the work" to change and grow ends up being about something totally different than we thought? How do we ride the wave as our real work reveals itself to us?

Trying is the beginning of everything. 

What is possible when we claim our desire over our fear? 

What if we let our longing lead us instead of our doubt?

What if some seasons of our life are about discovering who we are while other seasons are about remembering who we are? Seasons of discovery move us towards something new; seasons of remembering move us towards something familiar. 

What does it take to grow our capacity to be with uncertainty and discomfort? How do we meet every moment with more awareness and ability to face our feelings?

Maybe we, collectively, are growing our capacity to acknowledge we can transition from one year to the next however we want. Maybe the culture is getting better at a core part of Co-Active coaching: facing what is present with curiosity and tenderness instead of tough love.

What brings you aliveness? What do you love fiercely? Find your magic and the people who empower it. We need each other.

The longer I coach, the more I find myself conflicted about supporting clients in quickly moving from an “old” narrative to a “new” narrative. Is this…too tidy? Is this antithetical to living in a chaotic, ever-changing, incredibly mysterious world?

Coaching is also a unique, client-specific, client-driven space. Yet is there anything I hold true for all my clients? Do I hold some universal yet unsaid hopes for how coaching influences the humans I work with?