She Survived Her Own Death. Here is What I learned.
Our entire lives, we are building a sand mandala, and at the end of our lives, it will all be washed away.
Why do we hurt others? We need to off-load our own pain.
A couple weeks ago, I had a moment with my son that I was not proud of, and I felt it really necessary to share with my readers, as it directly relates to what I preach; a what NOT do moment, if you will. You see, I spend most of my time with the people coming...
Whatever you do, don’t be “cool”.
My husband jokes still joked about how different I am now from the woman he met fifteen years ago in our graduate acting program at Rutgers University, and I recount what I told him at that time. “I may be a mess now, but I’m going to be amaaaaaazing in my 30’s," I...
The Naked Truth About Your Dream Life
When working with clients, one of the first and most important exercises we dive into is their ideal day, and recently I had a huge, dropped in “aha” about it that I needed to share. This relates to you whether you even know what the exercise is, I promise! But...
The 4-Phases of Any Transformation
During ANY change process, there are four distinct stages. This is often called the “learning matrix,” “the four stages of learning” or the “conscious competence ladder.” Just because we have the knowledge or the awareness of how to start to change, doesn’t mean we are super proficient yet at implementing that knowledge into aligned action or belief. We need practice. Lots of it.
Dominating Your Inner-Saboteur Won’t Work. Here’s What Does.
So, it turns out the course I'm teaching is actually teaching me. Isn't that the way it goes, though? Right now, I am leading some incredible people through my newest pilot program, which will be released unto you all in the Fall. It is the work I love more than...
My Revelations & Tips from “30 Days to Healthy Living” with Arbonne
It all started when a couple of new clients came to me, speaking to me of a program called “30 Days to Healthy Living with Arbonne.” They had told me that they had just ended an extremely empowering experience, felt amazing and now understood on a deep dropped...
The Goal is Not the Point.
Lately, I have been trying to resolve something and have had a huge “aha” I wanted to share with you. It is surrounding the tension between presence in the now and the pursuit of something in the future. This is important. I have seen first hand working...
Your Ego is Awesome. Here’s Why.
I was in the midst of teaching a workshop and we had just gone through the difference between the impulses of deeper self and ego. I had just read a laundry list of negative aspects of the ego and how it creates toxic and fear-based cycles in our lives. One of my...
You Don’t Need a “Spiritual Practice”
Recently while being interviewed on The Practical Minimalist Podcast (click pic below to listen) the lovely interviewer asked me a question I wasn’t expecting. Beth, what are your spiritual rituals and practices? I froze for a moment. Just earlier in the conversation,...
This is Not a Moment to “Get Through”
I know deep down that I’m yearning to find a way to articulate the last four months of my life since my second baby was born but I’m unsure what to write about or how to speak it. It is like trying to describe the sun and the darkness all at the same time and my mind...
The 80/20 Rule to Take Action on Your Dreams
Recently, I came across a concept that made my jaw drop. It’s pretty simple and revolutionary, and when I checked into its truth in my own life, I was pretty blown away. Feel free to apply this concept to ANY area of life (health, career, personal relationships,...
The Key to Ending Obsessive Thought
One of the most powerful realizations I have ever experienced is that I am not my thoughts, I am not my feelings but that I am the observer of my thoughts and my feelings. Marianne Williamson uses the example of a lamp in a home to illustrate this. She says most...
How to Let it Go (When You Want Something REALLY Bad)
In order to let go of trying to death grip our goals, we need to believe a bit in magic. We need to trust life. We need to trust ourselves. And that is where the work begins, is looking for the evidence that we life HAS always handed us magic at the right moment, that we have survived and come out stronger, that overall life is beautiful and that we have always been able to have our own backs.
My Top 15 Life Hacks & Resources
This post is going to be a departure for me. As of late, as you may have noticed, I have been writing mostly about the “inner work” as opposed to the external “how to’s” when it comes to creating change in our health and our lives because that is the work I’m most...
The Secret Gift in Your Emotional Eating
For many years, I saw my issues with food as something to deal with and overcome. They had been with me for as long as I could remember and like many people, I carried them like a shackle of shame. Like so many others, my patterns with food started innocently enough...
What are YOUR ego traps and triggers?
Identifying our Achilles heel is the first step because then you can start to see how attachment to this specific ego marker can start to limit your ability to connect to consciousness and the awake, present, loving, creative force in all of us and how it impedes our lives.
You Don’t Know What You Want. What now?
Recently, I came across an idea that has been blowing my mind, and allowing me to truly relax and take a deep breath for the first time in a while. It is called "the fertile void" and I will explain more in a moment but here is the jist: If you don't know what to do...
When it is Better to Stop Trying So Hard
I got schooled at the gym this week. I was taking my usual weekly strength class and at the end of class the teacher marched right up to me and said: “What are you doing girl?” Now, imagine a 60-year old G.I. Jane (without the buzz cut) and you have my weekly teacher,...
What is YOUR Ego’s Achilles Heel?
When I was pregnant with my son a couple years back, I had a pretty vulnerable moment at the doctor's office. Keep in mind, at that point in my life, I was finding new level of success as a health coach; spreading constant messages about body love, about tossing away...
When Having to Change Pisses You Off.
I moved to Alexandria, Virginia more than six months ago, and I have one girlfriend. One. She is wonderful, hilarious, and super generous. She also has her own life (surprise, surprise), already has a ton of friends and cannot be my one and only girlfriend. This has...
It’s Not “Loving” to Let Others Pull Their Crap
If there is one thing I find myself re-iterating lately with clients, it is that everyone and every circumstance can be a mirror to our relationship with self, and that the only person we can really control is us. That we are the key to our own internal freedom. So...
Look For the Healers (because they are everywhere).
Recently, a friend told me that a very successful actor friend of mine was considering transitioning to becoming a healer. My natural response was "Oh, he already is. He always has been." Every time, I had seen this person on stage, he was channeling something bigger...
You Will Be Summoned Into Fear. Learn to love it.
Recently, on a phone call with a participant in my group life-coaching program, I heard myself blurt something out that I wasn’t expecting. “It’s time to do the thing that scares you the most!” Now, I know this may seem pretty cliché, especially for a life-coach, so...
I Haven’t Worked Out in 19 Months (and why that’s a good thing)
So, here is the God’s honest truth. I’m a health coach and I haven’t worked out in almost 19 months (and if you are counting, my son is 17 months), so you may have some clue as to why. To some of you, that may not be a big deal, but as someone who talks to people day...
What You Must Know About Manifesting
Last week, I shared some big life news on my first Facebook Live video and it got such a big response, I thought my tribe could benefit too. Even the act of taping a Facebook video for me was kind of ground-breaking! Of course, I wanted it to be perfect and...
It’s Time. Say Goodbye to What Could Have Been.
Sometimes, during the course of working with someone, I notice they start to get really sad. And not for the reasons you may think. It is not because they are failing or letting themselves down. It isn’t because anything “bad” is happening at all. Quite the opposite!...
Life Is Designed to Stretch (Not Validate) Us
Recently, while having a conversation with a client, I wound up having a personal “aha’ (this often happens, by the way). In this particular conversation, my client was sharing two really cool and unexpected opportunities that had recently presented themselves. Both...
How to Open Your Heart (when you want to taste blood)
How in the hell do we do this? This past week has been a tsunami of emotion for so many after learning about the deadliest shooting in U.S. history. When the shock and numbness thawed, I am overwhelmed with sorrow for the torrential grief so many are experiencing...
The New 4-Step Formula for Getting Anything You Want
A couple days ago, while cleaning out an old-filing cabinet, I found something that stopped me in my tracks. It was an exercise I had completed while training to become a coach. At the time, I was an actor who was struggling to make ends meet, who was relying...