Last week we went through the seven building blocks of a solid social house, one that will perfectly compliment your soul’s land. Today we’ll be walking through what foundation damage of the house might look like. If you recall from last week, a solid social house foundation would likely include the following: The belief that we are whole […]
7 Building Blocks of Your Social House
For the last several weeks, we’ve been exploring your soul’s land (if you missed it, you can read the posts or pick up the adventurer’s guide – click here to get your copy.) Your soul’s land is that part of you that is unchanging, no matter what your social situation. While your soul’s land is […]
17 Ways to Get to Know Yourself Better
To live a passionate, purposeful life, the first step is to get to know yourself better. Knowing your fundamental preferences, tendencies and traits – what makes up your soul’s land – allows you to start living from a more authentic place. “Get to know yourself better” is vague and it’s not always clear how to start, […]
Charting Your Soul’s Land
The last several weeks we’ve been exploring your soul’s land (you can go back and check out these posts if you haven’t had a chance to read them yet.) What we’re going to do today is see how that land translates to your true self. So from prior exercises you should know the climate, the […]
Soul Mapping: An Imaginative Way to Self-Discovery
Soul Mapping: An Imaginative Way to Self-Discovery by Nina Frost, Dr. Kenneth C. Ruge and Dr. Richard W. Shoup will guide you on a journey to the current state of your soul, how you got there, and where you are being drawn to go. It’s a fascinating, nuanced, exhaustive book of inquiry into your true […]
Seeing Your Soul’s Land
Questions and metaphors are two of the most powerful tools we have for revealing meaning and diving deeper into a complex subject, and there are few subjects more complex than knowing our deepest selves. Last week’s post introduced the idea of your soul’s land and invited you to begin charting that land with a series […]
Introducing Your Soul’s Land
Do you know the feeling when you recognize some fundamental preference of yours and finally accept it? It might be the moment an introvert finally turns down his friend’s invitation to a bar crawl and stays home and writes instead. It might be the moment that an extrovert decides to leave the solitary work of accounting and […]
Your Life as a House
In my work with clients transitioning out of therapy, I use a metaphor to help make sense of the whole process of therapy and coaching and why we often need both in order to live the lives we dream of living. In the coming months, I’ve planned a series of posts around each of these phases […]
The Death of My Embarrassing Fantasy Self
A couple of years ago, as part of my own personal coaching experiment, I strolled into Starbucks, got my favorite coffee, and settled in for some people watching. Normally I spend my Starbucks time happily engrossed either in writing or reading, but for this day, I was willing to set aside my books and pens […]
Will More Money Solve Your Problems?
Zach booked six months’ worth of sessions with me, immediately after being informed his was under consideration for a promotion at work. His company saw his potential to be a great leader, and selected him to receive coaching and grooming around his executive presence. If he was able to demonstrate his leadership capacity, the promotion […]