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Luella’s pened thoughts on topics relating to emotional fullfillment and personal achievement. New posts weekly.
Why Women Especially Need to Use Caution Before Signing up For Coaching
You probably have a friend who either signed up for coaching or perhaps decided to become a life coach. Coaching is not new, but since Covid, it especially became popular because of many women needing to stay home to homeschool or possibly losing their jobs and...
I Think, I Can
Life is great until it isn’t. Your life can change on a dime. Whether it is the end of a relationship, caring for a sick parent or child, your own diagnosis, a pandemic, job loss, body image, or constant bouts of anxiety…none of us are immune to this. So why are we...
It’s Interesting How We Dislike Pain…
And yet, it is what promotes us to make a change. A change that often appears to be for the good. I have rarely seen anything bad come from change. It just sucks that we have to go through ‘the journey of self-inquiry’ to get there. Why do we need to go through the...
What To Expect When You Sign Up For Therapy
I visited the College’s website the other day and saw a description of what psychotherapy is and decided to include it below. I also decided to include this as part of the consent form that you check off when signing up for my services. You need to be clear on what...
Wake Up!
We must realise that we are going through our lives interpreting our surroundings through a lens of both ‘what commonly happens to me’ and with a type of ‘trepidation’ of what could go wrong. Please step out of your perceived reality, which is all based on your past...
Falling In Love With Yourself Again
For those of you who need to fall in love with yourself a little more…rather than spend your days pleasing others, this is for you. I love a specific piece of writing from Frederick Buechner, where he describes how loving yourself is like loving your neighbour, but...
The Gift of Therapy
Have you ever thought of giving the gift of therapy? A way of opening the door for a loved one who may not otherwise have accessed this wonderful opportunity to look within? If you would like to do this for someone else, reach out to me and let me know who you feel...
How to Prepare for a Difficult Conversation
Business partners conduct good business by removing the emotion and bringing in more logic. One could even argue it is not logic, but PSYCHOlogic. Such as an Olympic athlete would do to achieve success, you focus on your goal. In relationships, your goal is to reach a...
Why You Need to Bring More ‘Work’ Home From the Office
Most committed couples (common-law, married) treat their current partners with less respect than their business colleagues. That is just the plain truth. Often, when couples want to part ways but have no temporary place to go (family member, friend's couch), I...