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 | Mar 25, 2025 | Authentic Self, self leadership
A New Way to Relate to Yourself
This book is about solving the disconnect from your Authentic Self – not by fighting yourself, but by learning to listen, communicate, and lead yourself with heart, with compassion.
✔️ It explains the fundamentals of Self Leadership – the lifelong practice of living and leading from your Authentic Self.
✔️ It teaches Parts Work – how to recognize, understand, and harmonize the different parts of your psyche.
✔️ It includes exercises, dialogue examples, and guided practices to help you start these life-changing inner conversations.
✔️ It helps create safety within your mind, body, and nervous system so you can move beyond fear-driven reactions.
✔️ It shows you how to transform shame, pain, and fear into deeper self-acceptance.
by Guy Reichard | Feb 12, 2025 | coaching, self leadership, trauma
Positive Intelligence, aka PQ, focuses on identifying and overcoming internal ‘saboteurs’ – so-called negative thought patterns that can interfere with success and wellbeing. While this model resonates with many, it also presents critical limitations, particularly for individuals with histories of trauma, chronic stress, or unresolved inner conflict.
This article examines the strengths and shortcomings of the PQ framework, exposes the risks of oversimplified coaching approaches and inadequate coach education, and makes the case for a more trauma-wise, compassionate, and heart-centered approach – one that supports both coaches and individuals in fostering deeper self-awareness, self-acceptance, healing, and authentic growth.
by Guy Reichard | Oct 1, 2024 | personal, resilience, stress, trauma
I had not one inkling that the final year of my 40s would turn out the way it did. This past year has reshaped both my inner and outer life in ways I could never have anticipated. I hate to admit it, but I was incredibly naïve, and ignorant. The writing was quite literally, on the wall….
As I turned 50 just days ago, I find myself contemplating how this year of horror, trauma, violence, and hatred has fundamentally shifted my identities – as a Jew, an Israeli, a Canadian, a family man, friend and neighbor, and as a professional who tries to bring more heart to the world.
by Guy Reichard | Aug 28, 2024 | Authentic Self, leadership, resilience, self leadership, stress, trauma
Is Stress Changing Who You Are? It’s highly likely that the toll of chronic stress is silently reshaping you, and without understanding how to manage it, the risks to your wellbeing, family life, and leadership effectiveness are only growing.
I would like to share a model to help explain what might be happening, from a neurophysiological perspective, called the Window of Tolerance.
