Gateway Coaching

05/14/2024

?? What is your morning MOOD ⁉️

Our default morning moods, based upon my training as both as a Chinese Medicine practitioner and Professional Coach, can be a significant indicator to someone’s wellbeing.

Even though our mood can depend on the day of the week and what is planned for the day, we tend to have a default morning mood. And, we CAN SHIFT it over time if it doesn’t serve us.

Our morning moods have such an impact on how we respond to things and navigate decisions. It also influences how we perceive situations and people.

Instead of judging moods as good or bad, it is more useful to view moods as open/expansive or closed.

Why? Because ultimately your mood dictates results - open moods lead to more possibilities while closed moods restrict possibilities. Each mood is also steeped in low to high vibrations (the science behind this is fascinating).

Find out for yourself!! If interested in learning whether or not you are inadvertently limiting choices, actions and mindset, pay attention over the next week to the mood in which you wake up. Or the mood you warm up to shortly after awakening. Then simply observe your choices, stories, reactions and outcomes.

Open mood examples:
Joy
Gratitude
Acceptance
Peaceful

Closed mood examples:
Resentment
Resignation
Fearful
Gloomy

And comment 👇 if you are interested in tips on how to shift your mood over time (not selling here - I’ll simply make another post with that info).

12/23/2023

✨ Happy Holidays ✨

10/31/2022

Please join me on Wednesday!!

12/02/2021

Has another week gone by where you put something off that is a priority? Is something in the way of taking care of what matters to you?

Join me Monday morning, 12/6 at 9:00 AM Eastern on Clubhouse for a 15-minute visualization that will get you back on track!

Here’s a link so you can add it to your calendar:

Monday, December 6 at 9:00am EST with Tess Horan. Let’s get ready for the week together by identifying what might get in the way of taking action on this what matters and create a strategy to stay on track.

10/25/2021

One of my favorite ways to be of service are extended group coaching offerings.

This year I’ve had the pleasure of working with an extraordinary group of people toward their individual goals for the year.

10/22/2021

The below post reminds me that when we find ease and flow, we tune into a natural rhythm and allow for our song to be sung.

10/21/2021

I had a photo shoot yesterday for my business and was so nervous. It was well past my comfort zone. There were three major challenges during the day and with each one I had to get centered & focused because I was also navigating my nerves. I had to stop, connect to my breath and senses. Then got really curious and asked what possibilities were available and what was needed and we pivoted. These days I attribute the ability to re-center so quickly to mental fitness practices. Mindfulness, which I’ve been practicing for decades has helped in the past with getting present and centered but hasn’t always moved me past habitual ways of thinking.

Possibilities can sometimes feel like a privilege. We are often stuck in patterns of thinking, choosing and deciding that we miss opportunities that are right in front of us.

After my shoot two things were really alive in me. First, I was SO hungry! Also, I felt privileged and so grateful for the many hours I’ve invested mindfulness & mental fitness practices which resulted in the ability to calm my nerves and deal with three issues that arose which otherwise would have been barriers. Not everyday is a good day … yesterday was a good day. 🙏♥️🤗

08/08/2021

I place on the altar of dawn:
The quiet loyalty of breath,
The tent of thought where I shelter,
Waves of desire I am shore to
And all beauty drawn to the eye.

May my mind come alive today
To the invisible geography
That invites me to new frontiers,
To break the dead shell of yesterdays,
To risk being disturbed and changed.

May I have the courage today
To live the life that I would love,
To postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from 'A Morning Offering' found in his books,
To Bless the Space Between Us (US) / Benedictus(Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Co. Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

07/26/2021

CLUBHOUSE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Cristina Jordin and I are facilitating a 6-week series on mental fitness, intuition and deepening our relationship to ourselves and the world around us.

When we combine our abilities of mental clarity and intuition, we navigate our situations and relationships with more ease and flow. Decisions are wise. Joy is more readily available.

Here is a link to our first discussion, Tuesday, July 27th at 6PM EDT (link to Thursday’s room at 11AM EDT is in the comments)

Tuesday, July 27 at 6:00pm EDT with Tess Horan, Cristina JordinPinke. Join us for Part 1 of a series we are doing on the intersection of Positive Intelligence and deepening Intuition. We are exploring how mental fitness supports deepening intuition.