What are the things you most want, the experiences you most want to have and the people you most want to do them with? This spring I’m taking a trip to Sitka, Alaska and I will eat fresh wild Alaskan Salmon with friends while sitting on the Alaskan Coast. yes, that’s an item on my [...]
Author Archives: Amy Barnes
Are You Breathing?
Of course you say. We take our breathing for granted. Just for this moment notice your breath. Are you holding you breath? Are you breathing hard or shallow or a nice deep belly breath. We can make ourselves feel stressed or relaxed, even healthy or unhealthy, or tired or energetic just by the way we [...]
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Roots and Wings
In a few days, my youngest child, a recent college graduate, moves to Alaska for her first full time job. She is ready for a grand and glorious adventure. She has roots and wings. For years, much of my sense of purpose and meaning has come from being a Mom I and a really good [...]
What Programs Are You Running? – Examining Your Core Beliefs
Just as a computer has programs running in the background we each have programs running in the background of our minds. Some are quite useful. We don’t have to remember to breathe, or how to drive a car or how to read. We do those things automatically, on autopilot. We also carry a number of [...]
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Should I Go or Should I Stay?
Is your marriage or relationship worth saving or is it time to call it quits and move on? This is such a big question with no one size fits all answer. As a marriage and family therapist and a relationship coach my preference is to make marriages work. Generally if both individuals are fully committed [...]
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Do You Have the Courage to Create the Life You Want?
by Amy Barnes, MBA MA LMHC What do you most love to do? Can you make money at it? Probably like most of us you were told NO. Work is work and it should be hard and difficult and no fun. Does that sound familiar? Or are you one of the few that gets paid [...]
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Courageous Creativity: The Courage to Be Fully Yourself
Rhonda Mills incorporates her gifts for movement, dance and spirituality in all she does. Fourteen years ago Rhonda deliberately set out on a journey to fully be herself. As a Yoga Teacher, Coach, and Playshop leader, Rhonda exemplifies being a person of Courageous Creativity. Courageous Creativity is having the courage to fully be yourself, to [...]
