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 didn’t used to bother them. Some are losing their cool more quickly. Some getting...
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 distinction or separation between oneself and literally everything else in the universe....
Reframing Impostor Syndrome as Self-Deficiency Syndrome
Impostor Syndrome needs a major reframe. It’s actually the tip of the Self-Deficiency iceberg hiding deeper issues of shame & unenoughness below. Self Leadership Coaching offers a compassionate trauma-informed approach.
If you’re feeling that impostor feeling – it means you’re not in Self. You’re back to being a vulnerable kid again. When you recognize that a wounded part of you is scared and struggling, and your go-to strategies are to push yourself harder or run for the hills, it’s time to stop and reconnect – it’s time to give yourself the kind of love, compassion and acceptance you may never have gotten growing up.
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
The Avoidance Trap & How to Free Yourself
Many of us avoid experiences out there, in the world, to avoid experiences in here, in our inner worlds. Our very own internal feelings have become the ‘danger’ our bodies and minds desperately want to get rid of. Difficult and unwanted feelings of pain, fear, shame, guilt, anxiety, anger, sadness, and grief, for example. Anything that you’ve experienced before that your system deemed was too much to bear, and you never want to experience again. Except that we do. Often.
Avoidance works, for brief periods. Avoidance, long term, shrinks your world & expands your problems & pain. Learning to accept difficult feelings as a part of life is key to creating a rich life.
