How NOT to Battle Anxiety
By Nadine A. Silverthorne, Toronto based Master Storytelling Coach At 10:14 PM on Monday night, I found myself sitting at the sewing machine, angrily making a non-medical face mask.Two weeks ago, I was feeling pretty chill about the back-to-school uncertainty and...
How to Fail Better: Avoid one thing
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto based Alignment Life Coach September 8th 2020: "Well that sucked.” -Stephanie J. Marshall I’m one of those people who is obsessed with the fall (for me it starts after Labour Day). It’s the real “new year” and it brings sweaters, new...
A Parent NOT Freaking Out about Back-To-School
By Nadine A. Silverthorne, Toronto based Master Storytelling Coach Like many of you, my kids have been home since March 13. After a spring of yelling at various members of this household to get on their Zoom calls, I have enjoyed a summer of leaving them to their own...
Body Image – Creating a Vision with the Alignment Framework
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto based Alignment Life Coach Stephanie Tackles Body, Body Image, & Health Habits using the Kickstartology Alignment Framework Part 2 At least I don’t have thick ankles like Bathsheba Everdene. Let me back up. I always tell my...
Body Image – Coaching Myself
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto based Alignment Life Coach Stephanie Tackles Body, Body Image, & Health Habits using the Kickstartology Alignment Framework Part 1 I kind of feel gross in my body. I’ve been agonizing about how to start talking about this on...
The September Reset | Back to School Feeling for Adults
By Nadine A. Silverthorne, Toronto based Master Storytelling Coach Possibility Feels Fresh and Crisp I crave that back-to-school feeling of fresh pens and notebooks, a crisp new outfit, the excitement of learning my new schedule and seeing who is in which classes with...
What Did You Expect? Expectation Mindset Management
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto based Alignment Life Coach A quick thought experiment to scan your current expectation mindset and then I will tell you how I caught myself out... It’s three months from now. What is going on in your life? … Actually think about it,...
Abundance Mindset Simplified
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto based Alignment Life Coach If you’ve spent any time on Instagram you’ve stumbled across people who are talking about “manifesting abundance”. What a lot of people think this means is “I am wishing really hard for money”. But if that’s...
A Reset Opportunity | Take-Two on 2020
2020 Summed Up One of my favourite tweets of the Year Unlike Any That Came Before was from God (@thetweetofGod) back in June. It cracks me up for many reasons, but while could be said of any year, it’s particularly relevant right now, no? Aside from the fact that 2020...
Building Self Discipline with the 3:33 Alarm
The Daily Alarm My phone alarm went off at 3:33 pm and caught me just as I was starting to slide into “I will do it later land”. I got back on track and that is why you are reading this newsletter right now. I've been building self discipline, it's like a muscle. Let...
Ten Facts About our Online Group Life Coaching for Women
What Group Life Coaching Actually Is Many people think of a client/life coach relationship as a one-on-one scenario. While we love talking to clients one-on-one, we are extremely passionate about our Kickstartology Online Group Life Coaching for Women program. Here...
Life Coaching through Resistance
By Nadine A. Silverthorne, Toronto based Master Storytelling Coach The Real Thing Keeping You from your Goals I'm going to give you an exercise to do and it might impact your thoughts on life coaching through resistance. Chances are you have a drink nearby. Take...