More than not, you focus on what needs fixed or what you need to do in the next year. Add what you are good at that you want to remember to appreciate in 2015. Sit right where you are. Close your eyes. With awareness of your breathing, in and out, five times, next say out
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She never said that out loud before. End of the year brought her into deeper conversations with herself. I am grateful I was with her. Am I just settling for what I have? I asked her to name what she does have and doesn’t have. I asked her to share what hasn’t come together that
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What makes your holidays happy or fall apart, whether it is the kids coming home from college, being newly divorced, recent losses, being with one friend, or solo, newly married, first time parents, grandparents, challenged with illness, well the list is long, is that you remind yourself that you are good enough. – Good at
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Thank you, Pacific Palisades High School, for inviting my photographs and gift cards, to be part of your fund raiser and holiday boutique. If any of you are in the area Saturday, November 22, stop by for fifty creative vendor gift ideas and delicious food. Enjoy your thanksgiving holiday. Natalie Caine M.A. Life
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A man shared with me that he felt numb in his relationship. “What does that feel like, numb?” He quietly said, “without, without anything.” His story is not singular. He would have gone on with his daily routine except that his girlfriend gave him a line, “wake up to yourself and then sleep with me.”
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Mistakes. We think we can explain to ourselves why we did what we did and then let it go, but that is easier said than done. In our group each of us shared what happened during the week that triggered our inner critic. “I talked too much and wanted to listen more. I over gave
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She had been so happy having a week together, for one of her family’s joyous celebrations. When it ended, the void dropped her to unexpected tears. She felt left, unseen, standing alone in an airport line of strangers, with nothing to look forward to when she would return home, opening her front door, to the
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Artists are gathering to welcome in the holidays. This will be a really fun group of women. I will be selling my photos and gift cards. Come join us. Your invitation is below. See you soon. …………. Natalie Caine Thursday and Friday, October 16 & 17, 9am-6:30pm 516 Arbramar Avenue, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 $5 Entrance
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She wanted to get a new perspective about being solo now that her divorce was final, but perspective was clouded by deep sorrow. “Just say I am sorry, just say it wasn’t your fault, just say I love how you raised our kids, just say your smile lifted me on those over worked days, just
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are nearing. A woman shared with me that she is no longer religious, but the memories of walking to temple, having family and friends gather, feeling a bond, singing together, and the predictable discomfort of the heat, all flood in, vibrantly. A part of her wants that again and another
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Transitions can bring forward your worst and best parts of you. What helps is to EXPECT BOTH. At one of my presentations, a woman stood and asked, “I don’t know why I get so angry quickly. It is embarrassing and I just can’t seem to stop myself.” She bravely shared more about her current change.
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I thought it would be fun, for end of summer, to share some of your happy moments. I will begin and you add on. 1. Walks on the beach in the evening 2. Jackson Hole hikes to lakes and views of Tetons 3. Being with friends, who had more free time, to deeply share and catch up on
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Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org