by dmackinnon | Dec 4, 2013 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
“Sometimes you have to break a promise to someone else in order to keep a deeper promise to yourself.” I don’t know who said this, or even if it’s a quote. Maybe I’m just paraphrasing. It’s something I read years ago and it stuck in my head. In November, I...
by dmackinnon | Jul 10, 2013 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
These days, I spend a lot of time observing my own thoughts. Sometimes I can see myself thinking a negative thought and see how that plays out in my day, and sometimes it all happens at a more unconscious level. When I see it, sometimes I just keep watching. Sometimes...
by dmackinnon | Jul 3, 2013 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
“Don’t believe everything you think.” I say this to all my clients, usually in the first coaching conversation we have. I write it on the white board when I speak in front of groups—doesn’t really matter what the topic is, this quote always applies. Most importantly,...
by dmackinnon | Feb 27, 2013 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
I’ve noticed lately that a lot of people are in my business—and I don’t like it. I think: They need to mind their own business. So now who’s business am I in? Right—their business. Byron Katie says there are only three kinds of business: your business, my business,...
by dmackinnon | Feb 20, 2013 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
Perfectionism is not only an impossibility, it’s the height of arrogance. Why? Because perfectionists (like me, although I like to think of myself as a “recovering perfectionist” these days) hold themselves to a different standard. Here’s what a perfectionist is...
by dmackinnon | Jan 30, 2013 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
My husband snores sometimes. Back in the day, when we were newly married, this drove me crazy. I thought we were going to end up in separate bedrooms—not something I aspired to that first year (or now, for that matter.) I would lie in bed in the middle of the night,...
