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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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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Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org
