How Coaching and Positive Psychology Go Together
by Phoebe Atkinson In one of WBI’s first iterations of the Certificate in Wholebeing Positive...
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Inspiring Change – Who am I in the Presence of This?
by Maria Sirois I’m staring as I write this at two bookcases full of self-help and psychology books. They represent a small portion of my collection of texts, cds, videos, tapes, poems, and...
Inspiring Change – Facing Reality
by Maria Sirois Sorrow lifts. Joy fades. After the darkness comes the light. As Pema Chodron reminds us, things come together, then they fall apart. Nothing lasts forever. Accepting this reality is...
Inspiring Change – Hacking Life
by Maria Sirois Making the rounds of TEDx is 13 year old Logan LaPlante, who speaks about hacking his education. Homeschooled for years now, the criteria for what he pursues in depth is what he...
Your Body: A Priceless Work of Art
by Megan McDonough In a well-known Washington Post experiment, one of the world's best violinists, Joshua Bell, played a Stradivari at a train station during rush hour in D.C. Hardly anyone noticed....
Inspiring Change – Barriers are Just a Story
by Maria Sirois My son Jesse sat on the bench in the running apparel store, listening to the owner, Ken, discuss how the training they were going to do over the next two months would prepare him for...
How to Meditate
by Megan McDonough Research has shown meditation's many benefits from stress reduction to pain management. Yet anyone who has tried to meditate knows it can be harder to sit for ten minutes than to...
Inspiring Change – It’s About the Return
by Maria Sirois Last night I watched The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and was moved again by the sentiment toward the end when all seems dark and our heroes and heroines are fighting a...
Inspiring Change – Kindle the Light
By Maria Sirois “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” - C.G. Jung Darkness is long now in this part of the world and...
Inspiring Change – One Chance
by Maria Sirois No one knows when the bus is coming to take us to another realm. And we have no idea how long we have once the bus shows up. When we face this directly and honestly, we can become...