by Guy Reichard | Sep 9, 2025 | resilience, self leadership, self-discovery, vulnerability
Facing and Embracing the Parts of Yourself You’d Rather Not See to Restore Wholeness, Confidence and Resilience
Ever cringe at someone’s weakness or beat yourself up for feeling “pathetic”? Jung called it the Shadow. Parts Work calls them Exiles. Facing them can feel unbearable — but it’s also the path back to real confidence, resilience, and wholeness. Through a fictional coaching conversation and the story of a sprout rising from ashes, you’ll see how even the parts you most resist can open the way to growth.
by Guy Reichard | Dec 14, 2023 | self leadership
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
by Guy Reichard | Oct 18, 2021 | coaching, growth, self-development, self-discovery, values
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.
We got the chance to speak about: What brought me to coaching and how I got started, One of the most important pieces of work I offer my clients – Values Coaching, What one of my biggest obstacles has been as an entrepreneur and more
by Guy Reichard | Mar 11, 2021 | growth, leadership, presence, self-development, self-discovery, self-mastery, wellbeing
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 the proverbial bus of life, to the Authentic Self, to let it lead us within and through life wisely, courageously, and lovingly.
It is a transformational and healing way of relating to our inner team or cast of parts (selves); a relational process we can all learn to help us become who we truly are, so we can live authentic, rich, healthy & meaningful lives.
True Self Leadership goes way beyond simple self-management (or what we call inner leadership). It’s about reconnecting to who you really are and transforming problematic protective parts like the inner critic, the perfectionist, the people-pleaser, the avoider, and more
by Guy Reichard | Nov 6, 2013 | growth
Thank you for visiting – 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.
Bottom line – the seed has sprouted and HeartRich is growing!