by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Listening looks easy, but it’s not simple. Every head is a world.” Cuban proverb It’s a relief when we know someone has really heard and ‘gotten’ us. But most of us, especially in heated situations, aren’t really very good listeners. We don’t really...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
It can be scary and uncomfortable to say we’re sorry. To own up to the fact that perhaps we did something less than stellar and that it negatively impacted someone we care for. We want to just brush it under the rug. To have it let go. To not have to meet and...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
For most of us, there’s a state of stress or distress we’ve come to call normal. A humming of the cells. A vibration of the body. A rant in the mind that undermines our sense of well-being and perpetrates great suffering. This may have begun as early as the womb, if...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Apr 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Most of us have been taught that love is a commodity. Something someone either has for us or not. Something that can either be given or taken away, won or lost. Thus, we become dependent on an ‘other’ to make us feel happy and secure. But any dependency can be fraught...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sometimes we get lost. In the swirl and whirl of our thoughts. In the energy of our emotions. So lost, we can find ourselves angry, hurt, terrified, bewildered, or worried and out of time, in a memory we React to as if it were real in this very moment, or a prediction...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
What if the key to becoming ‘expecting’, was learning to practice Positive Expectancy? What might happen if, even in the face of all of life’s uncertainty, we chose to become more resilient and hopeful in our thinking? In my HypnoFertility and Conception Coaching work...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Life is stressful, and sometimes we need to take a break to re-group and self-soothe so we don’t become harmful to ourselves or others. A “time-out” is a guaranteed method for stopping the cycle of addictive, self-destructive behavior toward oneself, or...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Diets don’t work. It would be great if they did. If diets worked, almost everyone with a ‘weight problem’ would have handled it by now. Because dieting is easy. Just change what you eat for a while, and presto!, the weight melts off and the body you’ve been dreaming...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Jan 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Life is challenging. We all know that. What we don’t often know is how to manage our reactions to everyday stressors. And, in general, it is those reactions that tend to make things feel bigger and harder, or smaller and more manageable. Here are a few suggestions...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Jan 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
I go to the dentist today. For him to look at my rickety jaw. The jaw that clicks and moans, and that long ago popped itself out of its bony cradle, and now rubs itself the wrong way, making crooked again teeth that were once tamed into straight, proper rows by...