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Ordinary Hope vs Mature Hope
Coaches often say hope is not a strategy, and about one kind of hope, they're right. Reading Frank Ostaseski's The Five Invitations, I found a distinction that has stayed with me. Ordinary hope waits for something outside us to deliver. Mature hope asks something very different of us.
What is Parts Work?
We already talk this way: part of me wants one thing, part of me wants another. Parts work takes that seriously. Through a client who yells when she's angry, I walk through naming a part, getting curious about it, and finding what it's trying to protect. It may surprise you.
Excuses, Excuses – Learning About Accountability
Accountability is the foundation of everything I teach. But a question came up recently that deserves a real answer: if you miss a deadline and tell your boss why, are you making an excuse? The circumstances were real. You didn't make them up. So where is the line between an excuse and ownership?