Part two of my life coaching journey is the reality of running a coaching business. (Warning: this is another long one.) After training to be a life coach, it took me about two years before deciding to do it full-time. I was coaching while having a standard 8-a.m.-to 6:30-p.m. corporate job. When I left that […]
I wrote this the day before my birthday—another birthday spent in ECQ lockdown. No outdoor meal in a restaurant. No planned beach trip. No socially-distanced visits with family and friends. I could wallow in self-pity. But that would be indulgent considering the number of people experiencing a more difficult day. I could be consumed by […]
I’m writing this exactly one year after the Philippines went into lockdown. I remember our collective fear and anxiety. I remember the long lines in stores, the scramble for face masks, the questions over whether a face shield was really necessary. Another thing I remember is generosity and kindness as people reached out to give […]
Every weekend last February, I have been attending pottery class. This is a long-held dream of playing with a pottery wheel and creating beautiful things from a mound of clay. Happily, unlike other dreams where I had very high expectations, pottery school did not disappoint. I wrote exuberantly in my journal after one class: My […]
As the pottery wheel whirled around, I confidently placed my wet hands on the clay and started molding it upwards into a skinny cone and down into a dome. That was me last weekend, a far cry from when I faced my first mound of clay, six classes ago. That first day, it seemed I […]
It’s a few days after Valentine’s Day and I thought it would be the perfect time to share my intention for 2021. It is to DO WHAT IS LOVING. In a book I’m reading now called Writing Down the Bones, the author emphasizes over and over again that you learn to write by writing. In […]
