The HeartRich Blog
Coresilience: Cultivating Inner Safety to Build Resilience Through Connection With Others
This article explores the profound need and impact of feeling safe within ourselves and with others, delving into the neuroscience behind it, and offering practical steps to cultivate inner safety, regulation, and resilience through heart-centered practices, so we can ultimately connect with others, and mutually reinforce resilience and wellbeing.
How to Choose the Right Coach for You: Expert Insights and Tips
Executive & Career Coach Lynn Nicolai and I had an insightful chat about Coaching geared to those of you who’re thinking about hiring a coach but not sure how to decide what’s right for you.
Whether you’re feeling stuck in your career or a relationship, struggling to find balance or confidence or peace in your life, or simply seeking guidance to grow and unlock your full potential, choosing the right coach for you can make a massive difference – watch or listen to this insightful chat to learn how to prepare and what to consider
How to Transform Your Incorrigible Inner Critic from Menacing Monster to Cuddly Caretaker
All that consistently critical and demanding self talk robs a person of their natural confidence, self esteem, and inner peace.
Without our natural confidence, self-esteem and trust in ourselves, self-doubt not only creeps in but begins to predominate and interfere with how we show up in life, at work and in relationships.
Learn how to transform that Menacing Monster into a Cuddly Caretaker
You Need to Value Your Needs and Values
Explore the path to authentic living, wellbeing, and fulfillment by prioritizing and valuing your own needs and values. Uncover the interconnectedness of needs and values and discover the transformative power of embracing authenticity. Join us on a journey of self-discovery and learn how aligning your actions with your core values can lead to a life of greater inner peace, integrity, confidence, and profound fulfillment.
The Eclipse of Love & The War Within
The Time to Choose is Now. The answer for a better future will only be found in love, and nothing else. We must make love the priority – within ourselves and between us. [ChoozLuv]
Cracking the Code of Self-Love through Self Leadership: Video Interview
In this video, I put an important spin on Self-Love & explain how Coaching for Self Leadership helps us heal & grow by loving our problematic protective parts & wounded parts
Burnout, Beliefs & Boundaries: Executive Coaching Video Interview
In this video, we talked about Burnout & how limiting beliefs & patterns like Perfectionism & People-Pleasing block us from owning & asserting needed boundaries
Boundary Setting for the Boundary-Challenged
On the journey of life, there’s a delicate and complex balance between honoring our own wellbeing needs and values, and fostering healthy connections with others. This complex balance is held in check by one fundamental element: boundaries. It is my sincere hope that within these words, you will find solace and inspiration, a gentle nudge towards reclaiming your Authentic Self and embracing the power of boundaries.
Embrace All Emotions | Transcending Toxic Positivity
Just Be Positive but only Always (blech!) The prevalent culture of toxic positivity that seems to pervade our society and social media platforms makes my stomach turn and gives...
Using the Change Triangle to Liberate Your Emotions & Reconnect with Your Authentic Self
In this article, we will explore the Change Triangle and discuss how it can help us: better understand our emotions and how to process them, be aware of automatic defenses and reduce the interference of maladaptive patterns, embrace uncomfortable inhibiting emotions so we can get closer to our true, core emotions connect with our authentic selves to foster Self Leadership, and develop the inner capacities that promote a greater sense of emotional wellbeing and resilience.
“How’s My Relating?” Using the Relational Grid for Building Better Relationships
How We Do Relationships Matters Whether in our personal lives or in the world of business, the importance of building healthy, strong, trusting relationships is vital to our...
Five Self-Regulation Techniques for Restoring Presence, Calm & Clarity
The Present Belongs to Those Who Are Present More and more these days, people are telling me they’re feeling stressed and anxious and triggered by ‘little things’ or things that...
Client Success Story: Walloped with an Insight
It Walloped Him! There were about 5 seconds of silence, he was stunned, and then his eyes opened wide, and his head tilted this way and that way. I smiled. I knew he got it. Then...
Exploring Love as a Need in the Context of Leadership & Workplace Wellbeing
Love Matters. Even if you don't call it Love. Love is the term I give to the force and impulse to appreciate and nurture life, within ourselves and beyond as if there is no...
Reframing Impostor Syndrome as a ‘Self’ Deficiency Syndrome
Impostor Syndrome? You're in Great Company By now, you’ve probably heard of something called 'Impostor Syndrome'. Perhaps you even suspect you have it. It’s been getting a ton of...
It’s Time We Talk About Trauma
What is Trauma & what does it have to do with Coaching? Without understanding it & working on healing it in ourselves, we have a high chance of perpetuating it in others, including our clients
Get to Know HeartRich Founder & Coach Guy Reichard – Podcast Interview
In a recent podcast interview I shared my responses to 6 core questions that will help you get to know me better as a heart centered + self leadership coach. One is uniquely different than the rest – it’s the Goosebump Question – you can watch that or listen to the whole thing here
Podcast Interview: Values Coaching, Personal Growth, Mental Health
A couple of months back, I was offered an opportunity to be a guest on a popular podcast called The Daily Path with Joe Winters Jr. It was my first ‘real’ podcast, as the one I had been on before was actually a coaching challenge I offered one of my clients. Listen in and
The Avoidance Trap & How to Free Yourself
When Too Much Safety Isn't Safe Avoidance, it’s astonishing how stealthy it can be. It may be one of your main coping strategies to keep yourself safe and secure, and you might...
The Heart of Resilience
What is resilience? Can we build it or cultivate it? What does the heart have to do with it? Resilience is the capacity to come back to our hearts, our true self, to a state of safety and optimal functioning… and yes, yes we can cultivate it!
Choose: Are you moving away or towards?
We are always doing something, and that something is either moving us Towards the kind of person we want to be and the kind of life we want to have (Values) or that something is moving us Away from pain, struggle or discomfort as well as away from the kind of person we want to be
What is Self Leadership? Loving & Leading Your ‘Selves’
What is "Self Leadership"? Self Leadership is when the various parts of us that make up our inner world or psyche, give up the steering wheel of consciousness & control, in...
What is Inner Leadership?
inner leadership is akin to developing self mastery or Arete. An ongoing, dynamic process of leading oneself well towards the heights of one’s potential. With Inner Leadership, we are claiming the response-ability to choose how we wish to respond
The Personal Growth Journey is one of Self Discovery & also Self Recovery
Lost to Our Selves Over the course of our lives, sometimes from a very early age, we lose some or most of the connection to our authentic self - our true nature - who we really...
Thank You
Until now, this post only had those 4 words on it. For 7 years! There are 2 parables that come to mind. One is about the best time to plant a tree and the other is about how we should learn a lesson in patience from the bamboo tree.
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