When did you last desire a different path? Did you take it?
When my kids were in middle school, I began thinking I wanted to be a stay-at-home for a bit. I kept doubting this voice and worrying about external consequences like what people might think or how it might affect my career down the line. Ultimately, I followed my inner voice. Permission to be a stay-at-home mom for a bit was a gift. I was able to sink into that experience. Ultimately, that time outside of work is what allowed me the space I needed to launch my business. Honoring my inner voice opened me up to other quiet dreams I had lurking.
One of the most rewarding aspects of my work is helping my clients listen to their inner voice and shed external expectation and old rules. When walking my clients through a process, liberation is the first step. Below is my process we take:
Liberation
You can take up space in your life and in your relationships. Sort through the external noise to forge your own path. Be a rebel. Identify and question assumptions and old rules.
I will support you by holding space for you as you try new things, get out of your comfort zone and move forward in your career and in your life.
Together we figure out what old expectations or external ideas are getting in the way or informing your choices in an unhelpful way. When we push away these distracting messages and realize there is another way, then we can move onto the next steps where you can figure out where you want to go and we can create a plan to get there.
Liberation can be:
Shedding a role you have outgrown
Following an alternate path
Releasing an identity
Adapting to a new life stage
If you are craving more liberation and would like to release external rules, I have several openings for 1:1 coaching. Click here to schedule a discovery call.
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My Blogs about Liberation- From the Vault
The Beauty of an Ordinary Live
Twenty Years Ago, Ten Years Ago, Last Week
18 Remote Job Boards You Didn't Know about (until now)
13 Best Career Tests, Assessments and Quizzes of 2024
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Below are blogs I have written in the past that reflect my thoughts about liberation:
Embracing your age: I’m Turning 52 and Apparently that is a Good Thing
Following your career preferences: Career Rebels Interviews
Embracing a new identity: My First Year with an Empty Nest
Stuck following old-outdated rules: Do Your Rules Make Sense?
Trying things on for size: Acting as If
Locked into a talent: Encanto and the Liability of Gifts
Permission to enjoy life:
The BEAUTY of an ORDINARY LIFE
Filmed in McGregor, South Africa. Featuring Annie Norgarb.
A lovely 8 minute video reminding us about the liberation that comes with aging. Enjoy!
Twenty Years Ago, Ten Years Ago, Last Week
December 22, 2022 by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
My yoga instructor Anna Guest-Jelly read this beautiful poem during yoga class and I was so moved I thought you might like to read it as well.
If I could go back in time
and offer advice to my younger self,
I wouldn’t.
I would let her fail all over again.
I’d let her falter. I’d let her lose.
I’d let her stumble
and struggle and bomb.
But I would lean in close
and let her know
I am deeply in love with her.
It’s so easy now to give her this,
this self-compassion in full bloom,
this thing she believed
was impossible.
18 Remote Job Boards You Didn't Know About (until now)
One of my favorite things is helping clients find jobs that allow them to have a LIFE along with work and sometimes remote jobs offer exactly that. This is the most comprehensive list I have seen.
13 Best Career Tests, Assessments and Quizzes for 2024
My favorite thing about tests, assessments and quizzes is that they can teach you what jobs are out there—jobs you may have never considered. Quizzes can help you hone in and they can help you expand your search. I don’t put too much stock in quizzes, but they are another way to learn more about yourself and about the careers that exist in the world. And they are kinda fun!
Don’t Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino
In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She's Up to No Good.
When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter's reputation, it's Philadelphia's strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye.
To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac convertible. She's sharp, straight-talking, takes her job very seriously, and abides by her own rules...mostly. As the summer unfolds, Ada and Marilyn head for the Jersey shore, where Marilyn helps Ada scope out eligible matches--for anyone but Marilyn, that is.
Because if there's one thing Marilyn's learned from Ada, it's that she doesn't have to settle. With the school year quickly approaching and her father threatening to disinherit her, Marilyn must make her choice for her future: return to the comfortable life she knows or embrace a risky, unknown path on her own.