Tale of the Day: Sometimes all that’s needed is the right kind of listening Last month I taught the Meta Model in the Real World NLP Practitioner Training in Winter Park, CO. For those of you unfamiliar with the Meta Model, in a nutshell the Meta Model...
Tale of the Day: Core Transformation I met over Skype (this was before Zoom) with a young woman living in Italy. Danielle told me, “I want to become more confident with myself and be more courageous in following my goals, and I want to get free from...
Tale of the Day: Eliminating Performance Anxiety “I finished the audition and only when I walked out did I realize: I had no teeth chattering, no sweating, no shaking at all! It was just so crazy. I didn’t expect it at all!” Let’s rewind back to when I first...
Tale of the Day: Fun Last week I was re-reading one of my favorite nonfiction books, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.” Feynman was a young professor at Cornell, feeling somewhat “burned out” by teaching introductory physics classes. One day he was in the cafeteria when a...
Tale of the Day: One of my favorite mini-metaphors “But the fear keeps me safe!” “I can’t let go of the anger or I might get hurt.” This is the kind of thing I hear again and again from clients experiencing anxiety, anger, fear or other emotions causing...
Tale of the Day: Our problems are solutions After having spent a lot of his time focusing on his family, a client of mine from Alaska wanted to get back into focusing on his business and bringing in an income again. He said he wanted to get...
Tale of the Day: Befriending Critical Internal Voices Lucy was working on a manuscript and wanted to become more comfortable in her writing. She wanted to improve her ability to let the information flow easily into type when she sat down to write, instead of having...
Tale of the Day: Trusting the unconscious Recently I had a client come to me because of a “big black sea of emotions.” Frank told me he felt tense, like he didn’t even want to “go there.” I began by working with the part of him...
Tale of the Day: Rewinding out of a bad experience Did you ever wish you could press rewind and just reverse right out of a bad experience? Well it’s actually possible. I know because I do it about three times per year. And it works every time. I...
Tale of the Day: Sleepless Nights? Lack of sleep negatively impacts all areas of life. Countless studies show lack of sleep correlated with huge losses in productivity, happiness, safety, and long-term health and longevity. “Sandy” came to me recently complaining of severe lack of sleep. It could...