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What Does a Life Coach offer?
For thousands of years, philosophies and religions have come and gone to help people become their best selves. In recent decades, advanced psychological studies have shown that humans do not stop growing psychologically after reaching adulthood. Some call it gaining life experience, and others call it maturing. What does that mean? As humans, we are inherently designed to create meaning. We…
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Our Immunity to Change: My interpretation of this adult development model
How many times have we wanted to change a behavior, mindset, or habit, and we weren’t able to do it? We had the motivation for the change. We even started it but have yet to actualize the change we wanted. Our immunity to change is as physiological as psychological. Our reptilian part of the brain – the brain stem – is designed to see change as a threat. We are instinctively wired to survive;…
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A Little About Conversation Skills
Conversations are daily practices that we do, and many of them can change the course of our lives. We use different skills and our entire body to communicate in each conversation. We communicate verbally and non-verbally. Many research studies suggest that non-verbal communication has more power than words. Our bodies absorb the messages from the environment through an introspection system…
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How Much Do We Want from Life; Choosing from Our Wants and Desires When the Sky's The Limit
How Much Do We Want from Life; Choosing from Our Wants and Desires When the Sky’s The Limit
Many of us live in an era with an abundance of opportunities. We want to experience so many things that a lifetime doesn’t seem long enough. We search for satisfaction, pleasure, happiness, and fulfillment. Instead, we feel overwhelmed and fear missing out at times. For example, my never-ending list includes several books to read, many places to travel to, various courses to take, new people to…
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A Short Story on Feeling my emotions
A Short Story on Feeling my emotions
(948 words) Environmental Triggers and Our Subtle Emotional Reactions I was air-traveling after a long time. I usually take books to read, notebooks to write, or audiobooks to listen to. And I usually end up watching people, movies that I don’t even like, or doing nothing. Of course, in the end, I’d judge myself for being unproductive and wasting many hours in the airport and during the flight.…
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A slice of My Self-acceptance Journey
A slice of My Self-acceptance Journey
It was a wakeup call when Joseph said, “Shabnam, you are reliving your childhood traumas of war.” It had been a few months into my new job that I noticed I was crying every day. I knew I feared war and its disturbing news; I had grown up with them. It makes sense that I am against war but to be realistic, if the last resort is fighting to defend or protect ourselves, I accept that as a…
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Self-Deception: Do We All Do It? Is It Good, Bad, or Both?
Self-Deception: Do We All Do It? Is It Good, Bad, or Both?
(1526 words) Self-deception has been a recent mind-provoking concept to me. I needed to read and write about it. How we lie to ourselves and accept the lies and overtime we believe they are the truth and not the root of our sufferings. With self-deception, we try to hide our flaws and make a good self-image that makes us feel like a better person. But don’t we often say, “Fake it to make it”?…
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Book Review: How Emotions Are Made By Lisa Feldman Barrett
Book Review: How Emotions Are Made By Lisa Feldman Barrett
(864 words) What I learned from How Emotions Are Made: In this book, Lisa Barrett offers the results of her scientific study in her lab bringing the most recent neuroscience explorations to understand how our bodies including our brains work to make emotions. In the journey of this book, we learn how one brain with notions such as concepts, social reality, and affective realism can create…
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Our Nonverbal Communication
What I learned from Leadership Embodiment Book By Wendy Palmer and Janet Crawford (954 words) “The nonverbal is a huge part of the communication for us human beings.” Wendy Palmer starts one of her speaking events. In Leadership Embodiment we learn that the awareness of the vibe and body language is important. By standing straight, shoulders relaxed, and body at ease, our body releases oxytocin…
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How Does Life Coaching Help Personal growth?
How Does Life Coaching Help Personal growth?
(683 words – 4.5 minutes read) Human growth is about enhancing our consciousness and gaining more analytical skills – by accessing to our newer parts of the brain – to understand reality with more clarity to actualize more and more of our potential. When it comes to self-growth, there is no lack of quality resources these days. Many institutes are providing a variety of paths that help…
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What Is Personal Growth?
What Is Personal Growth?
While writing my memoir a few years back, my writing coach and editor, Mathina, asked hard questions in every chapter of my life and wanted me to convince her as a reader why I did what I did. To answer her questions and write a compelling story of my life, I needed to learn the psychology behind my behavior and others in my life. I also needed to be vulnerable and bring out authenticity through…
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Searching For Wholeness In My Memoir Writing; Giving Voice To The Villains
Searching For Wholeness In My Memoir Writing; Giving Voice To The Villains
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com (1479 words) Everyone carries emotional pain in their heart, the embodied trauma of our lives and our ancestors’. According to California’s surgeon general, Nadine Burke Harris two third of the populations have dealt with Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE). I think the rest who didn’t, have been traumatized through cultural pressures and limitations in one way or…
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Interview With Shabnam Curtis: How Storytelling Could Bring More Empathy
Interview With Shabnam Curtis: How Storytelling Could Bring More Empathy
Why did you choose to write memoirs? When I started questioning everything around me, I was like, Am I in the wrong career? Am I doing something wrong? Am I doing not something right? But then, I started opening my story to my safety circle and I felt better. I decide, You know what, these are the traumas, these are the bitter past, that I have to deal with it, I can’t just put it aside anymore.…
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The Power of Telling Your Story - with Shabnam Curtis
The Power of Telling Your Story – with Shabnam Curtis
Lori: What experiences have you gained by sharing your story with others? Shabnam: I couldn’t believe it. It started even before I started writing my memoir and it actually encouraged me to write my memoir and I was kind of in a midlife crisis. Then I was just talking to my friends at work, especially because we spend a lot of time at work. So I have a lot of American friends who were born here,…
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Filching Our Books — The Abstract Elephant Magazine
Filching Our Books — The Abstract Elephant Magazine
During 1980 and 1981, when I was an eight- and nine-years-old girl, my father met with his comrades, sometimes in our house and at other times at their homes. 1,711 more wordsFilching Our Books — The Abstract Elephant Magazine
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The Flavor of Ice Cream
The Flavor of Ice Cream
Excerpted from the Shabnam Curtis’s memoir, My Persian Paradox.
One June day of my freshman year/ninth grade, in 1985, I needed a break from studying. My mother suggested we go out for ice cream to Tajrish Circle. Tajrish, a shopping area on the skirt of the mountains in the northern part of Tehran, was a favorite place for my mother and me to wander, especially for window shopping and…
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How Is It To Be An Indie Author?
How Is It To Be An Indie Author?
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Yes, there is still a stigma with being an indie author. There are bookstores, contests, and awards that do not accept self-published books. In the writing community, you are better off having a publisher’s name even if your publisher does not support much to promote your book.
Despite the stigma, I decided to walk the indie author path and test its freedom.…
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