I felt the familiar rush of blood to my limbs and drain of blood to my brain, both happening at the same time. The warm tingle, the quickening heart rate—I immediately recognized this as the activation of fight or flight in my body. I didn’t look like I was in fight or …
The ABCs of Getting Good ZZZs
I have always been jealous of people who seem to do great on four to five hours of sleep. I function very poorly on anything less than eight. When I get less sleep, I am in increased pain and I feel fuzzy, reactive, easily frustrated, and depressed. I often slip into the inviting …
When Depression Pulls Me Under, My Life Raft Keeps Me Afloat
When I was 13 years old, I told my parents I really didn’t want to be alive and I wanted to kill myself. Instead of getting me the counseling and therapy that might have helped me, my parents punished me. Read More on Amplitude
If you want better promises, make better requests
“Strategy is a commodity. Execution is an art.” – Peter Drucker If you want to get things done, I invite you to start by making better requests. A request can be described as a conversation of coordinating action (266, Brothers and Kumar) and in and out of organizations we have …
Living in Questions and Conversations
“In coaching, we embrace not knowing so that wisdom can show up.” ―Julio Olalla Ontological coaching in part embodies the distinctions of language. As an ontological coach, we spend time deeply engaged in conversations, conversations that create possibilities and change. A coaching session in its simplest explanation is a conversation …
Distinctions and overlaps between therapy, consulting and ontological coaching.
I would like to offer a few distinctions between therapy, consulting and ontological coaching from my perspective. I am not a therapist. I have worked as a consultant for more than a decade providing professional advice, strategy, and services to clients in the realm of business development and marketing. As …