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Therapy vs. Coaching: What's the difference?

Coaching empowers you to take action towards the things that you desire, propelling you forward in life by doing one thing: taking action.

Why more motivation is not the answer!

I often feel that discipline gets a bad rap. We associate discipline with life's difficult or unpleasant tasks, the things that we know we should do but struggle to accomplish. Here's a truth: we don't accomplish much in life without self-discipline. When we understand the power that discipline has to deliver joy, we can start to look at the idea of discipline in a different way.

No fallback plan.

For a lot of us that identify as women of color, daughters of immigrants or first generation achievers, we are often the first in our families to pursue higher education, travel freely, have access to build financial stability, create self-defined careers, have the luxury to take care of our mental, emotional and physical well-being, and so on.

2 years later... Did you change?

It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement when jumping back to the life we knew pre-pandemic. But I realised and even accepted that there’s no “going back to normal” for me. I’m not the same person I was before the pandemic.