by dmackinnon | Sep 11, 2013 | Coaching Tools, Healing Choices
A new client recently asked me why she wanted to eat all the time, even when she wasn’t hungry. “It’s a coping mechanism,” I answered. “It’s a way to not feel your emotions. You eat and feel comforted or satisfied rather than sad, bored, or lonely.” My client argued...
by dmackinnon | Sep 9, 2013 | Communication, Healing Choices
Ever since I’ve lived in my own home, I’ve always hated cleaning the floors. I would look at the wall-to-wall carpet in my apartment and think, Someone should really vacuum this carpet. Did I mention that I lived alone? When I moved to a house with hardwood floors, I...
by dmackinnon | Aug 30, 2013 | Communication, Healing Choices
My email inbox got to overwhelming proportions this summer. As I worked on clearing it out last week, I realized that I’d missed a number of not-earth-shattering-but-not-trivial emails from a good friend of mine. I sent her an email apologizing for missing the emails...
by dmackinnon | Aug 15, 2013 | Healing Choices, Process
I once read a story where someone was in a “Pay It Forward” kind of mood and left notes on six different windshields in a parking lot. The person who left the messages had no connection to anyone who owned the cars. It was a completely random act of kindness, or so...
by dmackinnon | Aug 7, 2013 | Healing Choices, Process
A recent conversation with a good friend reminded of the amazing book, You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise L. Hay. I read the book years ago, and had forgotten all the great information about the mind-body connection in the second half of the book (or maybe I never got...
by dmackinnon | Jul 31, 2013 | Healing Choices, Process
I recently spoke to a group about decision-making. At the beginning of the talk, I asked people to get into groups of two and discuss a time when they had made a good decision and why they thought they had been able to make such a good decision. I partnered with one...
