27 Apr,2022 | Coaching, Personal Development, Tiny Buddha
“Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.” ~Les Brown I sat in the doctor’s office, waiting—linen gown hanging off me, half exposed—while going through the checklist in my mind of what I needed help with. I felt my breathing go...
23 Mar,2022 | Coaching, Personal Development, Tiny Buddha
“Why don’t you get up and make the coffee, while I stay in my sleeping bag and plan our ascent route?” I half-heartedly ask my climbing partner Hank. He just looks at me with that unassuming, “give-me-a-break Val Jon” look of his. It’s three o’clock in the morning,...
21 Dec,2021 | Coaching, Personal Development, Tiny Buddha
“Ultra independence is a coping mechanism we develop when we’ve learned it’s not safe to trust love or when we are terrified to lose ourselves in another. We aren’t meant to go it alone. We are wounded in relationship and we heal in...
