by dmackinnon | Oct 17, 2015 | Communication, Healing Choices
Two weeks ago I was sitting in the front row of a classroom, trying to listen to a lecture. The speaker projected her voice, but the two women sitting to my right were having an animated conversation, occasionally punctuated by giggles and chuckles. I found it...
by dmackinnon | Sep 30, 2015 | Coaching Tools, Healing Choices
There’s been a lot of talk around my house lately about problems: Specifically, problem solving. I often say to my 5-year-old son, when he comes to me with a complaint: “That sounds like a problem for you. How do you think you could solve it?” We have a lot of fun...
by dmackinnon | Sep 22, 2015 | Healing Choices, Process
I’ve been writing about cognitive dissonance lately, on Live to Write–Write to Live, a group blog I’m a part of with 7 other writers. You can check out those blog posts here and here. I thought I was done thinking about—and writing about—cognitive dissonance for...
by dmackinnon | Jul 29, 2015 | Healing Choices, Process
Lately, the concept of “comfort zone” has come up with multiple clients during multiple conversations. I used to think getting out of your comfort zone meant making a drastic change. Over the years I’ve come to see that if we can get out of our comfort zones in very...
by dmackinnon | Jul 23, 2015 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
Last week I gave a presentation titled: Becoming Conscious and Aware. During the presentation I talked about Wordlessness, which is when you drop out of language and enter a state of being. The participants and I did a number of exercises together and I thought the...
