by dmackinnon | May 29, 2012 | Healing Choices, Process
Sometimes I get this feeling of knowing. I just know that something is going to happen. Sometimes I even hear it as a voice, telling me something is going to happen. I have learned to pay attention to this feeling, this voice, even when it sounds crazy or seems...
by dmackinnon | May 23, 2012 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
For the past few months, I’ve been asking myself the same question every morning: How do I want to feel today? Most of us ask ourselves questions all the time, and there is usually one that we ask over and over again—Susan Hyatt and Brooke Castillo call it the Primary...
by dmackinnon | May 16, 2012 | Healing Choices, Process
I once had the experience of getting some feedback about a workshop I gave about letting go of energy drainers (anything that drains your energy). One woman who attended the workshop thought the workshop was terrible. How do I know? My husband told me. Let me...
by dmackinnon | Apr 27, 2012 | Healing Choices, Process
A friend and coaching colleague, Sarah Seidelmann, recently gave me a recorded guided meditation, called Guided Journey To Meet a Core Beastie. One evening, when I was feeling antsy, I grabbed my iPod, headed out the door to walk around (and around) my neighborhood,...
by dmackinnon | Apr 21, 2012 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
Recently my husband was adding a form to my website and he somehow made the whole website disappear from my computer. I have no idea how he did this (neither does he) but when he told me, I just said, “Okay, that’s fine.” And I meant it. I thought, I must need to...
by dmackinnon | Apr 14, 2012 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
A good friend, Jane, recently called me to vent about her husband. She’s married, has three beautiful children and a full-time teaching job. She said, “I was enjoying a yogurt after clearing the table, filling the dishwasher, and cleaning off the island, when Pete...
by dmackinnon | Mar 22, 2012 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
The other day my stepson and his friend came to my house to pick up some of the stuff my stepson had stored in our basement as he was moving to a new apartment. They said they needed to make another trip so I invited them to stay for dinner when they returned. They...
by dmackinnon | Mar 7, 2012 | Healing Choices, Limiting Beliefs
If you really want to know what I believe, look at my behavior. For example, I’ve been saying for years that I wanted to get out of debt, that having debt is not for me. But if you looked at my spending habits, you could see that I didn’t really believe this. I would...
by dmackinnon | Feb 13, 2012 | Healing Choices, Process
I truly believe that playing is an essential part of a happy life and, on a more practical level, I also believe that it is an essential part of a productive, useful life. The second part of that statement really appeals to my Puritan work ethic, so I’m going to go...
by dmackinnon | Jan 30, 2012 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
Who would you rather ask a favor from? Say you need a babysitter or even, God forbid, to borrow $100? Here are your choices: Friend A, who will interrogate you about why you need a babysitter or what you want the money for. You know she will do this as she always...
