Terry Horton Coaching
A lot of life coaching is about creating a compelling vision for the future and stepping into it. Visualizing that future where you’ve already made the changes you’re trying to make now, where you’ve already rewired your brain and your heart for greater equanimity, and...
Tara Brach, the author and meditation teacher, describes habitual ways of thinking that don’t serve you as “sticky thoughts.” They’re the habitual thoughts that don’t help you but stick to you – they’re on repeat. These are usually thoughts that are...
Shonda Rhimes has a great Ted Talk from 2016 (and an eventual book), where she says,
“For one year, I would say yes to all the things that scared me. Anything that made me nervous, took me out of my comfort zone, I forced myself to say yes to…. And a crazy thing happened: the very...
Gay Hendricks, in his book, The Big Leap, has an excellent concept that I’d love to share with you: your Upper Limit Problem.
Hendricks describes this phenomenon with the analogy of an inner thermostat. “Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love,...
Have you ever had a week where your pet needs to go to the vet, the car needs to go to the mechanic, and the washing machine needs to be replaced? We’ve just had one of those weeks at my house. These converging challenges reminded me of the title of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s fabulous book,...
One of my favorite coaches and authors, Shirzad Chamine, shares a tip to reclaim your Sage perspective – your inner wise perspective – when things seemingly “go bad.” The idea is that when your brain perceives the outcome of a situation as bad, you must immediately get...
I often notice clients exclusively leaning on their cognitive skills while ignoring their emotional reaction or knowing something intuitively is a bad idea, yet agreeing anyway because intellectually, it seems correct. Your cognition, emotions, and intuition all get to be honored as you move...
