Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life!

As a coach, author, speaker, singer, artist, consultant and radio host, I share hope, possibilities and empowerment with the world. What's love got to do with minimizing stress and getting unstuck? Everything! My book, "Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life!" (Hay House/Balboa Press 2013) shares my story and the stories of 10 of my clients along with my signature Discovery Framework.   During my 30 years as an organization transformation consultant, I served as a senior partner in four of the world's largest, most prestigious global professional services firms. In 2005, I took a five-year sabbatical to find healing and peace because non-stop work had taken its toll. My recovery from burnout, including a sustained 80-pound weight loss and freedom from 10 years of debilitating depression, led to finding my purpose guiding others on their journeys. Through healing and self-exploration, I discovered that loving yourself unconditionally is the key to transforming your personal life, your work and the world. And that tapping, an energy psychology-based emotional freedom technique (EFT), is a simple, effective tool for reducing stress, anxiety and overwhelm in your life by releasing limiting beliefs, emotions and habits. My books, blog, radio show and signature coaching programs help individuals and organizations harness the transformative power of love and tapping to turn unexplored possibilities into fulfilling realities and step into their greatness. For fun, I love singing, reading, sewing and movies. I live in Williamsburg, Virginia with my husband, Wilson, and the three Coaching Cats who manage my life—SiddhaLee, Mortimer and Maisy Jane. To learn more about my work in the world, visit djwlifecoach.com. Access 40+ tapping resources at tiny.cc/djwtaps. Subscribe to my blog at tiny.cc/djwblog. Listen to my radio show at tiny.cc/djwradio. View my author video and book trailer at tiny.cc/djwauthorvideo and tiny.cc/djwbooktrailer.

[djwlifecoach]

Bye for Now

After 44 years of providing individual and organizational empowerment coaching- and consulting-related services, I have retired from professional practice. I no longer accept new individual or organizational clients. Nor do I offer Reiki or EFT/tapping training or treatment sessions.

Here are my recommendations for identifying other qualified providers through the esteemed professional…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

Discernment: Assessing and Restoring Equanimity Real Time

Discernment: Assessing and Restoring Equanimity Real Time

In previous posts, we’ve been exploring how conscious collaboration with the members of  Your Personal Board of Directors (Sage, Guardian, and Muse) helps you reveal and advance the highest good with equanimity in each moment. In this final post drawn from chapter 6 of my book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life!, we consider whether/when you can trust your board’s discernment and how to assess…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

Board Principles and Dynamics (Part 3 of 3)

Board Principles and Dynamics (Part 3 of 3)

In previous posts, we’ve been exploring how conscious collaboration with the members of  Your Personal Board of Directors (Sage, Guardian, and Muse) helps you reveal and advance the highest good with equanimity in each moment. In this post, I share a personal example to demonstrate some of the common ways the members show up and interact in real life.

A Personal Example

Now that you have a solid…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

Board Principles and Dynamics (Part 2 of 3)

Board Principles and Dynamics (Part 2 of 3)

In previous posts, we’ve been exploring how conscious collaboration with the members of  Your Personal Board of Directors (Sage, Guardian, and Muse) helps you reveal and advance the highest good with equanimity in each moment. In this post, we continue exploring some of the common ways the members show up and interact.

Why the Guardian Takes Over

There are two primary reasons why the guardian…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

Board Principles and Dynamics (Part 1 of 3)

Board Principles and Dynamics (Part 1 of 3)

In previous posts, we’ve been exploring how conscious collaboration with the members of  Your Personal Board of Directors (Sage, Guardian, and Muse) helps you reveal and advance the highest good with equanimity in each moment. Equipped with an understanding of the nature and roles of each member of your personal board, in this post we begin exploring some of the common ways the members show up…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

Muse's Agenda on Your Personal Board of Directors

Muse’s Agenda on Your Personal Board of Directors

In previous posts, we’ve been exploring how conscious collaboration with the members of  Your Personal Board of Directors (Sage, Guardian, and Muse) helps you reveal and advance the highest good with equanimity in each moment. In this post, we take a closer look at the core competencies and role of the Muse.

The muse’s agenda and core competencies are summarized in figure 14 below. The muse…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

Guardian's Agenda on Your Personal Board of Directors

Guardian’s Agenda on Your Personal Board of Directors

In previous posts, we’ve been exploring how conscious collaboration with the members of  Your Personal Board of Directors (Sage, Guardian, and Muse) helps you reveal and advance the highest good with equanimity in each moment. In this post, we take a closer look at the core competencies and role of the Guardian.

The guardian’s agenda and core competencies are summarized in figure 13 below. The…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

INFOGRAPHIC: What to Eat for Optimal Mental Health

What you eat goes a long way towards maintaining a happier and healthier mind.

[djwlifecoach]

Morning Exercise = Mental Health

[djwlifecoach]

Sage's Agenda on Your Personal Board of Directors

Sage’s Agenda on Your Personal Board of Directors

In the previous post we began exploring how conscious collaboration with the members of  Your Personal Board of Directors (Sage, Guardian, and Muse) helps you reveal and advance the highest good with equanimity in each moment. In this post, we take a closer look at the core competencies and role of the Sage.

The sage’s agenda and core competencies are summarized in figure 12 below. The sage…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

Achieving Equanimity: Your Personal Board of Directors

Achieving Equanimity: Your Personal Board of Directors

This is the first of eight posts based on the principles shared in Chapter 6 of my book Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life! These insights and tools will help you boost your ability to reveal and advance the highest good with equanimity in each moment by consciously collaborating with your Personal Board of Directors. 

You may say, “So far, the principles you share, Deborah, sound great in…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

How to Assess and Restore Sensory Balance Real Time

How to Assess and Restore Sensory Balance Real Time

Over the past 15 months I’ve shared the principles of Sensory Balance from Chapter 5 of my book Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life! Sensory balance involves feeding all of our senses in healthy, balanced ways so that no one sense takes over trying to fill voids it can never hope to fill. This begins with mindfully feeding our five outer senses, through which we celebrate our world, and it…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

How Belonging Fosters Meaning-Filled Relationships (Part 2 of 2)

How Belonging Fosters Meaning-Filled Relationships (Part 2 of 2)

In the previous sensory balance post we began a two-part exploration of how the fourth of our four inner senses—belonging—helps us imbue our experiences with meaning. Here are my additional thoughts on the sense of belonging.

Relationships have been the greatest teachers in my life. While often they didn’t feel helpful at the time, in hindsight I can see that they provided the sacred space in…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

How Belonging Fosters Meaning-Filled Relationships (Part 1 of 2)

How Belonging Fosters Meaning-Filled Relationships (Part 1 of 2)

In the previous sensory balance post we completed a two-part exploration of how the third of our four inner senses—spirituality—helps us imbue our experiences with meaning. We now turn our attention to the fourth and final inner sense with the first of two posts on our sense of belonging.

Belonging: I connect and communicate. I enjoy meaning-filled relationships with myself and others. I know and…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

How Spirituality Makes Life a Purpose-Filled Journey (Part 2 of 2)

How Spirituality Makes Life a Purpose-Filled Journey (Part 2 of 2)

In the previous sensory balance post we began a two-part exploration of how the third of our four inner senses—spirituality—helps us imbue our experiences with meaning. Here are my additional thoughts on the sense of spirituality.

Reiki is a form of mindfulness-based energy work focused on enhancing life experience in all areas. It reduces stress, increases relaxation, fuels creativity, and…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

How Spirituality Makes Life a Purpose-Filled Journey (Part 1 of 2)

How Spirituality Makes Life a Purpose-Filled Journey (Part 1 of 2)

In the previous sensory balance post we completed a four-part exploration of how the second of our four inner senses—vitality—helps us imbue our experiences with meaning. We now turn our attention to the third inner sense with the first of two posts on our sense of spirituality.

Spirituality: I believe and trust. My life is a purpose-filled journey, not a destination. I am more than I appear to…

View On WordPress

[djwlifecoach]

How Vitality Helps You Thrive and Inspire (Part 4 of 4)

How Vitality Helps You Thrive and Inspire (Part 4 of 4)

This post is the final in a four-part exploration of how the second of our four inner senses—vitality—helps us imbue our experiences with meaning. Here’s a second example of the power of vitality in action specially tailored to perfectionists and overachievers.

For Perfectionists and Overachievers (continued)

Example 2

Given that I had spent so many years confusing productivity with purpose, it’s…

View On WordPress