Life coaching is growing fast. Yet despite its increasing popularity, life coaching remains largely misunderstood. Here are some specific things life coaches do—and don’t do—to help you bridge the gap between where you are now and where you want to go next.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a somatic practice of tapping acupressure points while focusing on a challenge in your life. The goal is to neutralize difficult emotions by sending your brain and body new signals. Here’s how to perform the standard EFT protocol.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping, is a simple practice that can change your outlook on life. It helps you explore and transform difficult emotions, which naturally starts dismantling the thoughts and beliefs behind those emotions.

Gen X, the generation born between 1965 and 1980, is often described as “highly capable” and “fiercely independent.” These characteristics are usually offered as compliments but what they’ve actually done is produced is a lot of uniquely exhausted people, especially women.

The seasons factor significantly into how we feel. Yet most of us forget we’re creatures who are influenced by the forces of nature. This makes us prone to lower emotional states and physical symptoms during seasonal transitions. Here’s what happens in summer.

To “yearn” is to have an intense feeling of longing for something. If I ask you what you want, you could probably rattle off a list pretty quickly. But if I ask you what you yearn for, how would you answer? When I ask clients to sit with this question, it brings them a level deeper.

Language—specifically, how you talk to and about yourself—is central to coaching. Putting your thoughts into words gives them power. Whether in writing or out loud, the words you use matter because they determine the frequency of whatever you're talking about.

I work with leaders: entrepreneurs, managers, designers, producers, lawyers, filmmakers, and writers. These leaders are also partners, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and neighbors. Being a leader is not about your job or even your relationships.

People don't hire coaches when everything's going perfectly. They hire coaches when something is off. People hire coaches to help them overcome or achieve something that they haven’t been able to on their own. For this reason, coaching by definition brings out resistance.

Presence, passion, and purpose are key ingredients of a meaningful life, and yet, without energy, they become almost impossible to prioritize. Energy coaching is a form of life coaching focused on helping you unlock your natural vitality so you can thrive in a life you love.

The decisions that have the biggest impact are not necessarily the ones we spend the most time thinking about. We tend to over emphasize the “big” decisions in life—what job to take, who to marry, where to live—when it’s actually the day-to-day decisions that matter most.

In the past few years, and especially since the pandemic, video has become the default technology for engaging from different locations. I still conduct most of my remote coaching sessions over Zoom, but I’ve noticed that coaching on the phone has some advantages.

When I decided to become a life coach, I had no idea how much I’d pull from my experience as an acupuncturist. The poking-people-with-needles part had to stop, but many of the foundational principles of acupuncture are surprisingly similar to those of coaching.

The seasons factor significantly into how we feel. Yet most of us forget we’re creatures who are influenced by the forces of nature. This makes us prone to lower emotional states and physical symptoms during seasonal transitions. Here’s what happens in spring.

On the surface, coaching and therapy can feel similar. You talk, we listen. Often there’s some emotional discomfort involved. Usually the client is looking for help getting to a better place. However, there are important distinctions between these two modalities.