You know those weeks where you are singularly focused and then you are at a Saturday lunch with a friend? You notice your shoulders are dropped, bellies out, and you effortlessly are listening, and engaging. You feel birthed anew. During lunch, I told my friend how vulnerable I felt crying in front of a new
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NATALIE CAINE, M.A. is returning to THE GOLDEN DOOR RESORT and SPA, near San Diego, April 10-16, 2016 to present and explore with you, “Life in Transition, Now What?” You are at a crossroad. You aren’t who you use to be and not yet who you will be. Time to take a
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Graduation, wedding, new job, parenting, grand-parenting, re-locating, new day, all happy changes. Behind your smiles and raised glasses are people standing for you. They believe in you. They give to you because they want you to feel that you matter. They want you to have bricks under your feet. They want you to feel hugged.
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The joy of being outside lifts creativity easily seeds calmness that may have felt buried for months. Welcome! I shared my new photography collage piece with a group of women while supporting them to dive deeper within themselves. With their permission, here are a few of their depths. 1. I can’t forgive because then I have to
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With the permission of the group and not revealing any names, I share with you: In our woman’s group, we began with that sentence. Each woman wrote a line and passed it around the table, adding on, not stopping to read. Kleenex on the table, white unscented tall candle lit, circled by yellow daffodils, chocolate
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Whether you are a first time parent of a college student or experienced, you are planning their favorite meals and watching the clock, hoping their plane or car arrives on time. All together again and finally seeing their faces! I remember a group of college kids shared with me that they have been so stressed
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Who doesn’t have habits they wish they could magically end and move into more peace and happiness? All of us have parts like the critic, the pusher, the judge, the punisher, the victim, the better than, that are annoying for us and others. In my breakfast support group, I shared suggestions for what to
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When women gather and share, they leave uplifted, and with new tools to implement. When women gather, they have a place of belonging and a place to add meaning for others. When women gather, they change what they want to change and appreciate what they love about themselves. I have been facilitating support groups since
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Presenting: Navigating the Unknown with Natalie Caine M.A. at the Golden Door, San Diego April 26- May 2, 2015 To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop
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Decisions. I don’t think any of us took classes in how to choose. A woman called me in tears about a challenging time of her life. Unexpected changes arrived. Her tolerance for her husband’s behavior made her pack her bags. Then she put the black suitcase back in their closet. Her immediate response to
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“Here it is the beginning of a New Year and I am already doubting myself.” Those are the words a sweet woman shared with me during our telephone conversation. She had a fight with her spouse and a zero on her 8 day chart of starting something new. I want to remind you and me,
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For me, happiness is effortless when I walk one of my favorite nature spots. I feel like a kid as I drive there, wondering what I will hear and see today. It never looks the same and yet I have expectations of what might be. Today, I got an unexpected view…two dolphins swimming side
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Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org