Are you done trying to please everyone else and feeling inauthentic, disappointed, and stuck? Have you been on a treadmill in reactive mode, rather than living with intention, proactively pursuing your desires? Have you looked back on your life recently and thought "how did I get here"? Has the term "life balance" seemed more like [...]
In our many articles, we have talked about gratitude, mindfulness, stress reduction, manifesting, living with intention, releasing anxiety, and finding a life of joy. As life coaches, we facilitate a client's progress to their goal with tools and techniques that enable them to live their best lives. The results are stunning and our many testimonials [...]
Many of you have asked us about our favorite practices for wellbeing, which is a journey as much as it is a destination. Summer can be a wonderful time to take care of ourselves, slow down, and recharge. Helene's Favorites .... Emotional Housekeeping It is important for our mental wellbeing to know "what's up" emotionally [...]
by Helene Verdile Facing fear doesn’t mean bungee jumping from the highest cliff if we are afraid of heights. While it may help in the short term, the root cause of the fear remains. To reclaim our life from fear, we must learn to face our fear in a different way. We must make friends [...]
I believe joy is accessible to everyone. I believe that gratitude is the key to a life of abundance and joy and a way to heal fear, worry, and judgment. I work with clients to open up to a new way of living and being with them and for them in their lives. After years [...]
Stress is everywhere. We see it in virtually everyone we come in contact with and we certainly feel it ourselves. It resides outside our bodies in the form of noise, pollution, temperature, physical condition, and family and work pressure. It resides within our bodies as thoughts, emotions, and even in the form of high blood [...]
So many of us live most of our life by default. We enter jobs by default, find ourselves overloaded with too many tasks by default, and end up dealing with stress by default. While we may have started with a plan for our life, we can be quickly swept away if we are not intentional [...]
Mindfulness is accepting what is happening in the present moment without judgment. An example of a mindful moment is "I hear children playing down the street." It is neither good nor bad, it just is as it is and your ears are processing sounds around you in the present moment. A non-mindful moment would be, [...]
Recently, my husband Dave and I planned a return to our honeymoon destination for our 24th wedding anniversary. Our anniversary is January 16th and leaving the northeast for this year's symbolic vacation at a Jamaican all-inclusive resort was highly anticipated. The travel was long and when we arrived the weather was odd - extremely windy [...]
There comes a time in life when self-care is impossible to ignore. When self-care becomes a priority on the heels of a health issue, tragedy, or crisis, the individual usually champions the change and revels in their new sense of wellbeing. Should it take a crisis to recognize its importance? There are many reasons why [...]
