Rosie, Author at The Paradigm Shifts

Why Say I Love You

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve manipulated people I love in the name of love. I did so because I believed I had something to gain, and something to lose. It’s a model of love based on ownership, property, and the getting and taking model of reality. Its fear-based. And, strategizing instilled a sense of invulnerability in me, if I can make a belief that I love and am loved by someone, even though it doesn’t really feel that way, well, its better than experiencing the reality of being unloved. Who am I, or what am

80 Percent Effective

Michael, a COO of a growing startup in Austin, Texas, is a great guy and a brilliant thinker. He’s been hired by a particular company to bring about a turnaround in management and inevitably the bottom line. The company has experienced a significant loss in revenue over the past few months and it’s now Michael’s job to turn things around. If he fails, the company will fold “ end of story. Michael is about to take the company in a direction that will transform its vision, culture and business structure. There’s no doubt he has what it takes to create

Generating Momentum – The Art of Tending Fire

Without a doubt, what we want most for ourselves as coaches and for those we serve, is that we generate momentum towards manifesting our highest purpose and desire. Clients of mine, whose desire it is to have a thriving business, find it challenging to get out of their own way. Many of them are budding coaches who are passionate about their work, yet carry lifetimes of patterning that continually reminds them of how failure met them at every turn. Repeatedly, dreams of achievements are dashed, and they are left to their own undoing. Inevitably, the patterns of lifetimes ending in

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Dark, wet and dreary “ in such an environment, where else could beauty and joy be cultivated daily? From one of the longest and driest summers in history to one of the darkest and wettest Decembers on record, the weather of the Pacific Northwest has thus far provided me with enormous opportunity to find joy and beauty in the moment. It was a tough, first couple of months, but I think I’m getting the hang of it! I found that when I focused on the gloomy, depressive grey, the lack of sunshine and being in total darkness by 5pm, it

Love Being Human

It’s seems that no matter how much I think I understand humanness there’s always something or someone that stretches me out of my momentary comfort in believing I’ve arrived. Sometimes I get set off into a world where I presume to know better about how people should be so the world is a better place for all. I think of myself as a master in various arenas of humanness, yet find, time and again that as soon as I think I’ve mastered an aspect of this event called life, I’m brought to the realization that I’ve hardly scratched the surface.

Archives: 2009, 2008, …

———————————————————————————————————— Welcome again! 7am on the Redeye ferry from Orcas to the mainland. Springtime makes my feet want to root themselves in the earth. It is not a time to go gallivanting around to more beautiful places “ they can’t be found. Birds, trees in bloom “ everything’s in bloom. After 6 months of winter’s darkness in the Pacific Northwest, Mother Nature births us all over again to be her eyes, her ears, her sensing bodies in service to absorbing the beauty and the light that arrives with this season. I’m not an intrepid individual, really. I leave the Island

What I’ve Learned on My Summer Vacation

Today I am launching my latest book: ABC’s of Spirituality in Business! And …. Today is the ninth anniversary of my move to Orcas Island. Man, am I going to CELEBRATE! It’s been an interesting couple of months. Sure its summer, but the unfolding process of self-actualization never goes on vacation. It keeps poking and prodding at me to "Get On With It! So, I’ve learned that when life doesn’t happen according to plan, it’s time to explore and discover my personal contribution to having things be the way they are; because, of course, the Universe has its own unfolding

Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of My Leap of Faith

"When a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable. Peace without faith will never be attained, for what is dedicated to truth as its only goal is brought to truth by faith." (A Course in Miracles, 1985, p. 371.) Two years ago, I let go of my role as facilitator of the Transformational Coaching Training Program. After a decade of dedication, joy and engaged connection with remarkable people committed to changing the world, I was called to embark on another journey “ the trajectory of which seemed to make my heart sing. That’s all I knew. Those

Devotion

Devotion: Bringing the essence of every fiber of your being into this moment, presencing your energy into that which fuels the Divine Spark. In this place, I experience a nestled completeness among it all “ a totality of being Grace. This is my current experience of Devotion. Devotion has always been a challenging practice for me. Frankly as a child, I hated the idea of it. Devotion got me nowhere and nothing. Being at choice about who or what I was devoted to, well, there was no choice. Catholicism, my experience of it anyway, dictated devotion. I was supposed to

Transformational Coaching, The Essential Self and the True Self

The "Essential Self" is the current condition of centuries (life times) of evolution of the individual Soul. Authentic, unrestrained, unconditional, and unfiltered expression of our this true self in each and every moment is critical to the un-concealing of and alignment with our "Essential Self." Transformational coaching not only cultivates awareness of the Essential Self it also has a listening that reveals this Self in a way that elevates its significance to primary. When an individual begins to tap into their Essential Self, they are inspired to uncover more and more as the quality of experience that arises from authentic

Author: Rosie