Essays

Meeting life as it shows up

An evolving collection of reflections on coaching, careers, leadership, and the experience of being human.

Cat's paws standing on a digital bathroom scale.

Coaching Through Weight Loss

Weight loss can be about health, habits, identity, aging—or simply wanting our clothes to fit again. For coaches, the invitation is to stay curious without imposing meaning, and to explore what change might look like in the life a client actually has.

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Colorful anemones, sea urchins, and mussels visible among rocks in a tidal pool.

Beyond the Question: Eight Ways Inquiry Deepens Coaching

Great coaching inquiry isn't about finding the perfect next question. It's about widening our curiosity, noticing what emerges, and staying long enough to explore it.

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Off-road vehicle tire spinning in deep mud, illustrating the experience of feeling stuck despite continued effort.

Coaching Through Stuckness

When clients feel stuck, the instinct is to create movement. But coaching stuckness may begin by getting curious about why movement has stopped.

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A red Start/Finish race sign stands against a white sky, symbolizing the relationship between achievement, ambition, and what comes next.

Coaching Through Ambition

Ambition can keep us reaching for the next finish line—or change as we do. What happens when coaching helps clients become more conscious of what they want?

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A narrow dirt path winds through a meadow of yellow and purple wildflowers toward an old tree and rolling green hills.

Coaching Through Everything: A Reflective Practice

The Coaching Through series began with a simple observation: everything human may enter the coaching room. Here's what I'm learning by paying attention.

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