I’m an expert…. an expert at feeling stuck in my life. It seems I can’t just rest in a happy plateau. Always a hunger, a longing, a nagging pulling on me. Can you relate? Do you or have you ever felt stuck in any part of your life? Maybe it’s a job that sucks your soul. A marriage that feels compromised or lifeless. […]
My client Felicia is in her car. Her kids are driving her mad fighting in the back seat. It’s after school. She’s at her wit’s end, compounded by other stresses – a bungled work email, an IRS tax bill she forgot to pay, her husband’s complaint about something earlier that morning. She fears the soccer coach taking it out on […]
Last week I wrote about the claustrophobic mindset that does not trust that everything will be okay. Trust that I’ll be ok. Trust that I’ll make my mortgage. Trust that I’ll succeed at work or in my marriage. In distrust, a rabbit hole emerges and anything to get out of it is in vain until something else happens. Something to […]
I wake up in the middle of the night. It just happens. Often. I’m forty-nine. Seems to be part of my life at this point. My thoughts get churning. Sometimes it’s first thing in the morning. How will I keep a roof over my head over these next few years? Will I ever see her again? Will my business be […]
I lost my way. Yes, and that’s a good thing. I was on a contrived Super Stu Coach path. An image of me more than what I really wanted. It took breaking an artery in my leg, 30 nights of waking up with “knife in the leg” pain, and five weeks of being “on my back” – to get the […]
I did the young love in the 20’s thing without kids. I did the mid 30’s with kid. And then I did the mid 40’s thing with older kid. And yes, all with the same person. In all phases of relationship, I know firsthand that an energized and…
It’s a powerful word. To be free or freed from a confinement, enslavement, or restriction. To enter a new and open landscape of possibilities and opportunities.
