In my coaching work, I use the metaphor of an unfurling fern to help my clients see how to participate in bringing themselves more fully, joyfully and authentically alive. In the context of this metaphor, the act of unfurling is catalyzed by a message of “yes!” from within…
Category Archives: life coaching
Unfurling with Amy Oscar
Ah, cosmic voyager, if you only knew. You are a beloved child of the universe with a meaningful and important purpose. That purpose? To learn, to love, to live – as fully and deeply as you possibly can. You don’t need more training, more study, more stuff. No more penance. Nothing to fix. No…
Be your soul’s own gardener: caretaking your unfurling
As we all learned in the first grade when we planted sunflower seeds in Dixie cups, plants thrive when their optimal growing conditions are met : when they have enough sun, shade, nutrients, water and space to grow. Imagine a grove of succulent ferns. Or a meadow of clover and wildflowers. These plants live…
Unfurling with Tanya Geisler
Live it up. Light it up. Shine. Star. Tanya Geisler. Words to describe her: Irreverent. Delightful. Delighted. Intuitive. Catalytic. Funny as hell. Self-aware. Gorgeous. What she does: Helps others find their Thing. Revels in the joy of doing same. In her past: An outwardly successful and…
What Do I Want? 5 Tips on Navigating Uncertainty
“So it’s clear what you don’t want in this situation. What DO you want?” my alter ego coach asked me. I squirmed. I coughed. I mentally reviewed the landscape. I looked out the window. “I have no idea,” I finally admitted. Ah, yes. The messy, soupy place of not knowing. The vagueness, the restlessness,…
Unfurling with Rachel Cole
For me, the word hunger has several meanings. In general, however, food hungers are simply doorways into the disconnection so many women have with their deeper hungers in life – in their careers, relationships, creativity, self-care, and spirituality. The million dollar question Very occasionally I come across something that slips…
The ABC’s of Self-Love : E is for Enough
This post was written for a blog series put together by Molly Mahar of Stratejoy. The ABC’s of Fierce Love is a blog crawl + Treasure Hunt where 26 writers are blogging in an alphabetical sort of way about self-love. I wonder what X is for … It’s February,…
Unfurling with Amanda Farough
“Oh THIS is what being a woman feels like.” Painful. Ecstastic. Overflowing with LOVE. She’s sassy, she’s kind, she’s sharp as a tack, and she’s connected with all the fabulous badass leading ladies of a certain online space. She’s also a self-proclaimed Canadian geek who…
The Choose Love Project
My story is not unusual. If I gather 20 women in a room, my unscientific estimate is that 10 of them share some version of the same sequence of events, and have struggled to make sense of the aftermath. I hear it echoed again and again in the words of my clients, my friends and…
Fine-tuning your listening skills: hearing the voice of wisdom through the cacaphony of self-doubt
Sometimes the words we need to hear — those messages that really guide us — are blissfully easy to hear. They might show themselves to us as we wake from sleeping, fresh and still unencumbered by the busyness of the day. Sometimes they flash across our consciousness like billboard signs. Or they tumble from our…
