The Valiant Group

11/28/2025

May we live in gratitude for all the sweet things of our lives. Happy Thanksgiving today and every day.

11/23/2025

Back on the road in Mexico with Barzel and Braxi!

06/14/2025

UNAM - rated #1 or 2 best university in all Latin America depending on the year and #94 in the world, home to Diego Rivera’s first serios project. The central library is impressive and I am a student again!!! Imagine! The church in the video is the oldest in Latin America - built by Hernan Cortes in front of his house (and Malinche’s). Destroyed in an earthquake, this the second construction. Coyoacán is the oldest colonial city in the America’s…

11/18/2024

...There are only two ways to live. One as though nothing is a miracle. The
other as though everything is a miracle...

-Dr. Albert Einstein

What's your choice? If you make a choice to see life as a series of miracles every morning with your coffee for 2 weeks (yes, 14 days in a row) see what becomes possible. AND LET US KNOW in the comments below.

After all we know that energy follows attention.

12/22/2022

When you get a little shaky, a little wobbly about who you are, what defines you, breathe. That's right, long extended exhales and remember this

12/22/2022

The Holiday Yearning...

We yearn...for recognition, connection, meaning. And the holidays make that yearning acute.
Questions brim over the containers of our consciousness:
Are we remembered? Cared about? Included?
Do our greetings/gifts/visits matter?
What about the holidays is consistent with who we take ourselves to be? What isn’t?
Who makes up our ‘true” family?
Which gifts are meaningful?
And the yearning is heightened by the cultural messages that seem to intensify at this time of year - as though our very human needs are impacted by the calendar!

I find many of the folks I work with more anxious, more depressed or more withdrawn during December than the rest of the year. I sense a determination to make “the holidays bright” fraught with disappointment and stress.

What often happens during this time is attention seeping away from mindfulness practice and towards shopping, parties, vacations, hosting.

These events are wonderful - all - especially when they are approached with the mindset of paying attention to whatever is arising…”being with” it amidst all the “doing” required.

What is “being with” ? It rests on noticing - noticing what is happening in the body, in the emotions and in the cognitive realm of thinking. Noticing is aided by slowing down, breathing and allowing the whispers of wisdom from our head, heart and bodies enough silence so they may emerge to guide us.

“Being with” includes treating ourselves with kindness, just for existing - without transactional
dialogues. Kindness in our thoughts, kindness in the way we treat ourselves can then infiltrate our actions towards others, the greater world.

“Being with” doesn’t preclude shopping, cooking, wrapping presents, sending cards or other typical activities. It invites deepening those actions by slowing them down so they are rooted in
caring, kindness, generosity - rather than obligation.

As we approach our activity from this place, we observe our own yearning in others and connect with them on the human playing field of recognition. We invite them into the present moment by inhabiting it ourselves - fully.

And so our holidays become holy days and whole-y days. Days in which we bring and offer ourselves in wholeness, neglecting neither our hearts, our bodies nor our thinking.

Taking on the holidays in this way is The Holiday Project - one that enriches whatever celebration we partake of - not just for ourselves, rather for each individual we encounter.

May your holidays fill with connection, meaning, recognition all held together by Love.

11/16/2022

If we stop "talking" and start DOING, amazing possibilities are realized. Read this short post!
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-valiant-group-coaching_weve-seen-this-or-something-similar-before-activity-6998692096295546880-TDg7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

11/12/2022

When creativity rules, FEAR gets pushed aside! And courage is an inside job. Learn more at The Valiant Group.

11/12/2022

We ALL need to become proficient at managing chaos!

Lonely sad woman deep in thoughts sitting daydreaming or waiting for someone in the living room with a serious expression, she is pensive and suffering from insomnia sitting on couch OVERWHELM & #82…

11/12/2022

What to do when you're overwhelmed? Read this quick advice.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-valiant-group-coaching_overwhelm-weve-all-been-captured-take-activity-6997260860402409473-Xxa3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

11/06/2022

Hills, bridges, water and secret nooks - its San Francisco on a lazy Sunday.

04/21/2022

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