by Lisa Kohn | Jun 29, 2017 | Recovery
“If I want to be happy, I have to create the habit, just as I had to with daily writing, and flossing.” Anne Lamott As I’ve written here before, I am taking a certification course in Positive Psychology, and one of the things we’ve learned is that happiness and...
by Lisa Kohn | Jun 26, 2017 | Resilience
I’m sitting in the airport, waiting. Our flight is over three hours delayed. Ah well. It’s been a whirlwind of a weekend. My older child graduated from college yesterday (was graduated if I want to be grammatically correct, for Danny, my dad). Then we had lunch, then...
by Lisa Kohn | Jun 22, 2017 | Resilience
I have an acronym I offer to clients – WAIT, Why Am I Talking? It’s a coaching acronym we use to remind ourselves (us coaches) to shut up and let the client do the talking, the work, the thinking things through. As a coach my “job” is to listen, ask questions, provide...
by Lisa Kohn | Jun 19, 2017 | Hope and Amazement
If I were to be honest, I never knew a life like mine existed. I’m still trying to grasp it. I don’t think I could even imagine the love and ease I have now. I don’t think it was part of my vocabulary, or my understanding of the world. I was just talking the other day...
by Lisa Kohn | Jun 15, 2017 | Recovery
That’s the advice I heard. It’s very different from the advice I used to give myself. It’s very different from what I learned, and thought I had to adhere to, way back when. In fact, I think it’s the opposite of where I used to come from. I think my motto was to work...