How honest can you be about your recent loss?

Who is listening, acknowledging and honouring how you really are?

Are you nice-sizing it? Are you making it more palatable for other's comfort? Are you making it more palatable for your comfort?

"You are fine. Everything is fine." (??)

Notice and name that a felt sense of loss is valid, legit and worth your attention.

Honour what is.
Befriend grief for it's love and attachments, for it's learning and it's companion in genuine realities.
Everything belongs.

Notice and name.

Choose to lead yourself well in the messy middle of loss and grief.

Many of us have been raised and educated in a culture that honours the brain, but dissociates the body and mind.

Your mind never sleeps. Your thoughts are tiny packets of proteins that are fueled by your perspectives (and the stories you tell yourself and choose to believe). Our thoughts have an attachment to all the emotions associated with every memory (dozens of emotions, not just one).

Your body keeps score and has SO MUCH information and data for you. Can you perceive what it is communicating to you? Are you listening?

Mind, body and brain work together to make us who we are, and informs how we show up in the world. From this place, we can navigate complex situations, and experience major shifts in meaning, satisfaction and quality of what matters most.

The best leadership involves your WHOLE person of mind, body, brain. Capitalize on your WHOLE self in your personal development and leadership growth. Use your brain but don't neglect the data from your body and brain.

Notice and Name.

Choose to lead yourself well.

Wishing and hoping and complaining and trying and trying and trying harder, sometimes helps resolve conflict and arrive at happy endings.

Most of the time, it's the grit and grace of leading yourself well, in thought and tangible actions that create more meaningful outcomes.

Another human being, trained in the coaching modality, with a back pocket of a plethora of neuroscience tools, strong credible ethics, lived experience and professional training, is almost always a difference-maker in sustainable change - for whatever reason you may come to coaching.

I know what it is to experience the entire agenda on the text in this post. I know what it is to be challenged and supported by a trusted coach who helped make the invisible visible while I did the work to lead myself through to the other side of what mattered most to me..

A life-long work of leadership in process.

No matter how many leadership books you read, or downloaded apps you pay for, meaning-making happens with real humans in real time.

A leadership coach is someone who holds space for your values, your meaningful purpose while you navigate your perspectives, beliefs, goals, desired outcomes and sites of shaping - to a place of clarity, resonance and significance to who YOU are now and who you want to be.

A leadership coach offers a truthful space, accountability for goals and a wide range of coaching tools and exercises to help you lead yourself well.

You are the instrument that will lead your way forward. Your learning and your changes belong to you.

Lead yourself well.