Coping Mechanisms: Exit Stage Left
In coaching we talk about a three step process: Awareness, Acceptance, and Conscious Choice. The goal is to get our clients to a...
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Angela Greenwell
- Jul 11
- 3 min
When You Realize You Have ADHD
There are several people in my life who have ADHD. It manifests for them in different ways and each of them have a variety of coping...
Angela Greenwell
- Dec 8, 2020
- 6 min
Setting Ourselves Up for Real Change In the New Year - Part 1: Addressing our Failure Baggage
It's coming. The New Year excitement and/or dread when we look at our lives and think, is this where I want to be? What do I want out of...
Angela Greenwell
- Nov 25, 2020
- 3 min
Coaching Myself on Holiday Stress: Do Your Best
Here's what's real for me. The kids are on break from school. I'm trying to put together a special meal but I'm the only one that likes...
Angela Greenwell
- Nov 19, 2020
- 4 min
Choosing to Stay Focused on What Matters
Ever notice what happens when you get lost in thoughts of worry, fear, or drama? When there is a strong feeling of urgency or threat? You...
Angela Greenwell
- Nov 10, 2020
- 2 min
When Things Don't Go Our Way (Not Political)
It can be really hard when things don't go our way - and I'm not even talking politics here. I'm talking ordinary life stuff. I am a...
Angela Greenwell
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
An Unwanted Extended Stay in Darkness
I might have cried today. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. And even though I have a box full of tools to help me see past the fear,...
Angela Greenwell
- Oct 26, 2020
- 5 min
When You Are Beating Yourself Up For Not Doing The Thing You "Should" Do...
I have struggled with my morning routine for a while. I love the extra quiet moments in bed especially now that it is cooler and darker....
Angela Greenwell
- Oct 20, 2020
- 4 min
Using Connection to Manage Stressful Thinking
I was caught against the side of a rock with water pushing against me. I was on the Upper Nantahala in a whitewater kayak. I had boated...
Angela Greenwell
- Oct 15, 2020
- 4 min
Believing In the Possibility That We Can Change Our Lives
This article is permission to once again believe in your ability to create the life you want (probably for different reasons than you...
Angela Greenwell
- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 min
What Part is Yours to Own? Boundaries for the Nice Girl
Post divorce, I lived the "nice girl" persona for a few years. I was a rock star at the "please, placate, pretend, perform and turn...
Angela Greenwell
- Sep 28, 2020
- 6 min
Who's in Charge? You're in Charge.
Often our brain's get important things backwards. For example, it is common for us to take charge of the things that are not ours to own...
Angela Greenwell
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Giving Yourself Permission to Experiment and Try - A Beginner's Mind
I'm afraid I disagree with Yoda about there is no "Try." Try is the antidote to our pesky brains belief that our decisions are do or die,...
Angela Greenwell
- Sep 16, 2020
- 5 min
Romanticizing the Fixing of Others
One of the most pivotal steps in coaching is helping clients realize what they can and can not change or control. Feelings of stress,...
Angela Greenwell
- Sep 2, 2020
- 5 min
The Struggle with Trusting Ourselves
As an adult we get to make our own decisions. We get to decide what our lives are about. But it’s not always clear how to do it and do it...
Angela Greenwell
- Aug 21, 2020
- 3 min
Where Being Nice Gets Us In Trouble
For years I showed up with the attitude of being nice, only to be met with selfishness, belittling, manipulation and abuse. While it was...
Angela Greenwell
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
How do you show up? Is it a choice, or a default?
Self Leadership is about understanding the choices we have in front of us, and intentionally making our own decisions. Sometimes we...
Angela Greenwell
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
The Value of Coming to Terms that there is Ugliness in the World
Expectations can be blinding things. When I was a child, my dad tried to teach me that not everyone is nice or my friend. I rejected that...
Angela Greenwell
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Where does confidence come from?
My path to confidence has been a long, painful, confusing road. There were bullying executives, self-centered boy friends, sociopath...
Angela Greenwell
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
What are you tolerating, and what is it costing you?
Tolerance says "This is something I don't like and I can't/shouldn't change, so I just have to endure it." It may feel like a lost cause...