“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 wellbeing and to success. But the patterns of behavior that we bring to our relationships are...
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....
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.
Informed and trauma-wise coaches are more sensitive to what’s really driving a person’s agenda (goals for coaching), and instead of being an accomplice, they can be a compassionate messenger and a gentle guide. Being informed is not enough – being wise means we act from our knowledge with virtues like compassion and courage.
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.
