I wish everyone in my life wasn’t so confident I’d be going back to stand up. I’m supposed to portray an air of mental stability.

A lot of people I coach more traditionally (as opposed to specific goal based coaching) have undergone therapy. They have the insights they need. They know what behavioral changes they need to make, where their issues come from, maybe even which habits they must enact, just not how. 1/

But honestly this holiday season, any time someone is attacked, play dumb. Pretend you genuinely don't get it. Even if it's targeted at you. Make mean people lay out their reasoning for all to see. Then pretend you still don't get it. Hard to change minds at a single gathering in front of everyone.

This holiday season, it’s important to make your own fun. When relatives ask if you’re seeing anyone, say you’re seeing a professional basketball team but are afraid they might find you’re cheating on them with their rival team. (Or say you’re seeing 1 magician, works equally well.)

There are two ways to look at this guy from thousands of years ago: This person had a sense of humor about himself, or this guy had a really shitty business. So I guess if you're trying to run a business, get rid of the negative reviews. If you're trying to take life less seriously, be Ea-Nasir.

Figured I'd remind y'all of what you already know in case you're unnecessarily blaming yourselves. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I think the issue is we were still on the DSM 4 when I was in college. At least that’s my best guess as to why I don't qualify and older grads don't qualify. Especially since it wasn't even my major- but I do have enough psych courses to qualify for programs I'm looking at if they weren't so old.

Good morning.

I've been told by several therapists not to go unless it satisfies my interest because I have the knowledge already. But I'm skeptical of this and I DEFINITELY know being a coach doesn't convey it. My coaching courses were 2 weeks of my life. That's ridiculous.

These are the two areas I'm most interested in (seeing as the IFS lottery is just impossible to win) but really any program will do if it's affordable and I can worm my way in there! Especially if it helps me show proper respect to clients with different backgrounds/experiences from mine!

Anyone know art or somatic therapy programs I could qualify for even if my psych classes/college credits are old af? Especially online programs? Perhaps there is an exam I can complete to show I have learned changes from the DSM 4 to 5? I cannot afford to go back to undergrad on top of this!!

Whenever I combat my internalized ableism in a visible way, I always feel better. Not just physically, but mentally. The truth is people don't care what you do or look like (and on the rare occasion they do, THEY'RE very clearly the intrusive weirdo here.)

This year clients are having fewer sessions and/or going on discounts they didn’t take before. And I get it. The global economy is trash. Experience has also taught me most people want to pay you what you’re worth and will go back to old rates when they can. 1/

Being a coach and scheduling my clients has made me hate daylight savings and its weird rules so much. Some people are literally in the same time zone as I am only half the year. Europe changes over at different times than this continent. Some states and provinces don't change over on this continent

I can be super firm if I have to be I recently told a (friend) middle-aged hyper masculine man from New Jersey to take a bubble bath, listen to Le Tigre and not contact me again until he gets in touch with his muse independently of what gatekeepers want!!

Don’t compare your first attempts to someone else’s published & polished works.

Good morning

It feels weird enough to be in the wellness sphere I don’t need to add white person yoga in a faux casual setting. (But I will add what was aspirational to me: following every silly whim that makes me happy, even if it’s not “productive.”)

I am sorry I do not have a photo of myself doing yoga in a backyard, in front of a pool or the ocean. I do in fact, still life coach.

I can work with you on fitness goals, but I will absolutely never lend credence to the BMI system at large, crash diets or wellness industry myths. I’d rather refer you to a nutritionist and lose out on money than send you down a bad, unsustainable path 1/

I see IFS has evolved since I did the training. 🤣

The ADHD regret of having spoken too much about an idea for a project and now you’re bored with it before even starting.

My brand is “my clients’ minds are too complex and different for a singular message, plan or brand, I will take their feedback over anything prescriptive” Even that sentence is too long.

All under the thrall of a life coach who saw a Mr Show sketch 10 years ago and subconsciously remembered the premise

Are you a freelancer who’s fucking exhausted? I’ve been there. I’m uniquely qualified to help you reduce your stress as much as possible.

If you ever become chronically ill you may begin to resent that all society (certainly all capitalism,) wants from you is consistency. The one thing you can’t provide with a chronic illness. Your contributions have value even if they cannot be as consistent as they once were.

Inside each of us is a protector, a firefighter, an exile, a child, a wise elder, the ego, the shadow, a feudal peasant, frosted tips guy, a 2008 Las Vegas real estate agent, a horse & Disputed Pong inventor Alan Alcorn

Self care without community care seems incomplete. I’m going to try to educate myself around these blind spots.

I cited no longer being able to use Twitter in this article so here’s why.

I will never deny your material/external circumstances or ask you to ignore them. We will collaborate in incorporating every aspect of your life, identity, and mind and modify methodologies accordingly until they work for YOU.

Whenever my writer clients ask if they can just quit writing I ask “will writing quit you?” Will it leave you alone? If so, fine, you can quit. But chances are, it won’t. It’s called a ‘calling’ because it doesn’t shut the fuck up.

I picked this stock photo in particular because it's how overwhelmed I feel trying to advertise myself on social media substack.com/home/post/p-...

A little snippet from my personal account in case you wonder why I have two.

You know this but it's always worth a reminder: You're not failing, this economy is failing you.

The reason I prefer clients’ cameras on during zoom appointments (at least at first) is because I can learn more about them that way. I can ask more pertinent questions like “Wait, your face lit up when you talked about ___ why did you stop doing it?”

surprising how many of my chronic illness strategies for getting things done have worked for new parents. I guess it's because in both situations you have to use whatever windows you have do do whatever you can and assess your tired brain for what you can do in those windows.

Too many clients will be like "I like painting/writing/scuplting but I am NOT an artist" Art is subjective and it's something you do not something you are. If you start making it something you are, you might have ego problems & identity crises.

Sorry Ben Shapiro it’s the opposite, your feelings don’t care about logic. You can know something to be true and still have trouble believing it emotionally.

This may not work for you- in fact it may make things feel more doomy & gloomy depending on who you are- But when I get scared of global warming & such, I look at the long arc of Earth history. How many extreme climates have come and gone. How many mass extinctions we’ve had. And life perseveres.

If you also have ADHD I can relate & we can come up with solutions together like a giant ring to put all your stuff and car and pets on

Personally, I’m going to see about taking calls for the LGBT center it’ll also help my guilt over being a sleeper cell who has straight cis privilege (and also for thinking a neighbor who was one of the heads of the center was a scientologist bc I misheard a roommate & avoiding him accordingly)

If you want to alleviate guilt for doing nothing about the state of the world, but can’t protest I wanna remind you protesting is important but it’s not the only form of activism. And that local acts radiate globally. And that there is probably something that plays to your strengths.

One time I told my therapist I was too neurotic for anyone to tolerate me. She looked me dead in the eyes & said “People tolerate WOODY ALLEN.” I had nothing to say to that. It still stops me from having that insecure thought. So I thought I would share in case you also have it.

ACAB includes the part of your brain that won't let you start a new project because it's not gonna be perfect. (But mostly it's cops.)

If any of my writer friends are interested I can vouch for the fact that this is a very good deal!

I’m wondering if anyone is willing to trade free coaching sessions for free tutoring in Spanish. Since it’s a trade and since I was near a conversational level in college I just need to get back, teaching/tutoring background not required.

I’m still uncomfortable marketing myself as a coach. I know I’m a good coach, but when it comes to marketing, I feel like this