13
February
2009
My next group teleclass will begin on February 20th. It’s titled:
“Becoming Your Child’s Life Coach: Guiding Your Children to Their Own North Star”
Parenting is by far the most rewarding job that I ever experiences. However, it was also the toughest and most important role in my life. My babies arrived healthy and brought to life the theme “bouncing baby boys.” However, there was no manual as to what to do to nurture, support, discipline and love my new little ones. As a Martha Beck Certified Coach, I wanted to develop a special niche in coaching parents.
I planned this class to equip you withl coaching tools and discipline strategies to make the job of parenting more fun and more manageable. The class is designed to help you raise awesome children by broadening your parenting knowledge while honoring their unique personalities and innate gifts. The class also includes two complimentary coaching sessions for each participant and recordings of all sessions.
Before we will get into parenting tips, we’ll take a look in the rearview mirror of your life. Most people base their parenting skills on how they were parented. During the first and second sessions, you’ll come to a new understanding of yourself and the influence of your family of origin. Parenting skills tend to be passed from generation to generation. That is great if you experienced a wonderful happy childhood. However, I’ve coached many clients, who walk around with untrue false thoughts that they came to believe in their childhood. Some of these thoughts aren’t even true and they’re keeping people from moving forward in life.
I want to give parents the skills to discover their own limiting thoughts. By the way, we all have them. You’ll learn how to be your own life coach to get rid of false beliefs. Through this discovery process, you can change patterns in your parenting that really didn’t work well for you and may not be working well for your children.
Please contact me if you have questions about the class. I can be reached via e-mail:
maryannlowry@mac.com or phone: 818-325-6534.
I look forward to getting to know you.
Mary Ann
Posted: Raising Great Kids to be their Uniquely Created Selves
13
February
2009
Howdy,
How is life in cyberworld? I’m still caught in the “spin cycle” of the washing machine. In other words, I met with my accountant today and there is more work to do to prepare for an audit. Now, I’m trying to create this incredible outcome in my mind.
I left the accountant’s office ready to host a pity party or even go hit a punching bag. I was in mega disappointment mode and caught myself going into suffering mode. I tell everyone else, “You’re only one thought away from JOY”. I needed a bit of self-coaching to convince myself that I had another option.
I don’t really want to pay the government a lot more of my hard earned income. I could just write a huge check, which might very likely bounce, but it would be over for about 24 hours. I’ve decided that I don’t want to write a big check to the IRS, so my other choice is to move forward. Notice that I do have a choice in the matter.
I have spent the remainder of the day creating the feeling, as if the audit was over and all went well. I still have work to do, but I have a genuine feeling of relief and that a load has been lifted. I’m praying and meditating and just feel this peace about the whole process. I know that sounds like I should be committed, as I sound absolutely clueless about the possible outcomes of an audit.
The problem with that is that my angst, eating everything in sight, staying awake all night with worry, crying in a fetal position on the bathroom floor, etc. etc. has never ever brought about anything productive. Well, the crying in the fetal position, definitely let me know that something wasn’t working.
I’m working on an audit and all is well. i have the peace to know that i was honest in submitting my returns, so I can give this one to God and trust that God is already working behind the scenes.
This is the way self coaching works. The minute anxiety and fear comes up figure out what thought is behind the feeling. There is usually a gremlin thought involved.
My gremlin thought was “All my money will be taken away. I’ll owe the government millions. The auditor will be close minded”
I changed that one to “I’ve decided to work on the audit and all will be well”.
That produces a feeling that brings on peace. I’m letting God work behind the scenes and don’t need to waste my time chewing on my toenails.
The action that happens when I go back to joy is that i’m able to break the rest of the stuff to be done into manageable little bitty turtle steps. The ultimate result will be that the work will be ready for the accountant in a week.
Yep, I’m going forward with the audit and feel the joyful relief that it’s all but over. It really is easier to live that way.
Stay Tuned.
Mary Ann
Posted: Life Coaching through My Blog
