Story Fondling, How Caressing Your Past Can Damage Your Future
fon·dle, /ˈfänd(ə)l/ verb: stroke or caress lovingly I'd only heard the word fondle in the context of body parts until my life coach...
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hopecook
- Oct 13
- 6 min
Do THIS When Life Knocks You Down
We were in the Waffle House Sunday when my teenage son pointed out the song playing. It was Chumbawumba's I get knocked down. The four...
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hopecook
- Oct 6
- 8 min
10 Steps to Transform Your "Just a Job" into Your Calling
I've been reading a lot of positive psychology books to understand a) how to have more joy in my life b) how much agency we humans...
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hopecook
- Sep 29
- 8 min
Is Resistance Keeping You From Accomplishing Your Dreams?
Why can't I finish writing my book I started 4 years ago? Why won't clients follow their callings, especially when they're miserable in...
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hopecook
- Sep 22
- 9 min
Are You An Anxious Mess? 11 Tricks to Stop Anxiety from Sabotaging your Career and Happiness
Fear gets a lot of press as being the bad guy keeping you stuck in job you hate because you can't take a leap into the unknown. Anxiety,...
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hopecook
- Sep 13
- 9 min
Why You Shouldn't Jump Off the Struggle Bus into Oncoming Traffic (yet)
I hear from a lot of you who are on the struggle bus. Marriage, kids, job: they all seem to win us a ride on the struggle bus. Very few...
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hopecook
- Sep 6
- 5 min
What's Wrong With Me? Getting to the Root of Your Job Dissatisfaction
Have you ever found yourself asking, "What is wrong with me?" And then you turn around and blame your work dissatisfaction on external...
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hopecook
- Jul 19
- 2 min
How to Use Self-Compassion to Heal Burnout
I've been binging on podcasts featuring interviews with Kristen Neff, a self-compassion researcher. You may have heard her powerful Ted...
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hopecook
- Aug 7, 2022
- 4 min
When Dreams Crash and Burn
For the last 10 days, someone near and dear to me has been struggling with inner demons. This person thought they wanted a dream. They...
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hopecook
- May 11, 2022
- 9 min
Getting out of the Bog of Past and Current Thoughts
The theme of my life coaching is helping clients get unstuck. Most clients know they feel trapped or stuck, but they don't usually know...
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hopecook
- Apr 29, 2022
- 10 min
How to make decisions based on your intuition vs letting your "Inner Manager" make the call
For those women or men out there who have trouble making a decision or knowing which way is the "right" way, this episode is for you. ...
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hopecook
- Mar 3, 2022
- 5 min
Your Permission Slip to Rest and Do Nothing
Some days, I don’t feel like doing anything. I'm starting to question why my brain can label this a bad thing. Sometimes we need to...
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hopecook
- Feb 17, 2022
- 7 min
Money, Food, Time: Connecting the dots on how these 3 are the reason you're staying stuck
Mindsets, what are they anyway? As simple as it sounds: your mindset is how your mind is set on something and you probably don’t even...
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hopecook
- Feb 4, 2022
- 6 min
It's 2/2/22! How is this day going to be different than any other day?
Have you ever had the thought that this day in history is never happening again? This happened to me while writing today's date in my ...
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hopecook
- Jan 19, 2022
- 10 min
Woo-woo Stuff that Actually Works!
One word: Mantras. Mantras aren’t part of a particular religion, they’re not Buddhist or Hindu. They cross all religions, even ...
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hopecook
- Jan 11, 2022
- 8 min
Get your boodie in gear for the new year with a new way of looking at resoloutions
I love this time of year. No broken resolutions yet and my goals are still dangling like ripe fruit in front of me, waiting for me to...
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hopecook
- Jan 3, 2022
- 9 min
Baby, I'm Worth It
I love reviewing the end of the year and the start of a new one by going over all the things that happened, good and bad, and thinking...
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hopecook
- Oct 12, 2021
- 3 min
Quick Questions to Determine What's (or Who's) No Longer a Good Fit in Your Life
I’m reading a book about walking the Camino, a pilgrimage trail in Spain that takes 35-40 days to walk. The descriptions of ill-fitting...
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hopecook
- Sep 30, 2021
- 11 min
My BIG Announcement
Here's my story. So, as most of you know, I've been a Physician Assistant for almost 20 years. I first worked in internal medicine and...
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hopecook
- Jul 14, 2021
- 5 min
Small Steps to Mighty Wins
We recently returned from a trip to Oregon. We spent 5 nights on a river. We normally car camp maybe once or twice a year, so 5 nights of...
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