Debi Johnson Coaching

Jul 25

Debi Johnson ~ Martha Beck certified coach

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I am nervous.  Tomorrow is the day.  I am taking my final test to become a certified Martha Beck life coach.  I started the program in January, 2010.  I have studied.  I have put in my coaching hours.  I have awesome tools under my belt that truly help shine the light toward the changes that my clients want to make.    

Yet, I doubt myself.  Am I ready?  Am I good enough?  I’ve been going over recordings from previous classes in preparation.  My nervous Nellie is shaking in her shoes.   

I thought I had better calm Nellie down, so I went and took a nice hot bath.  My tub is my reading room of sorts.  I picked up O magazine out of my basket and read the article, “How to Tune In To the Voice Within“, that happens to be by my wonderful teacher, Martha Beck.  The article is about listening to our inner intuition. 

I looked at exercise #1.   “Think of a challenging circumstance or difficult decision you happen to be facing right now…..”.

Okay, that was definitely my inner freaking out Nellie about my test in the morning. 

Then I went on to read Martha’s questions:

With regard to the situation…..what would calm do?  What would peace do?  What would relaxation do? 
 
I immediately thought about the pressure that I am putting on myself right now.    

What would make me calm, peaceful and relaxed? 
So I took some deep breathes and knew that everything that I needed to know for tomorrow is inside of me.  It’s in my soul.  When I coach, I do so much better when I don’t use my mind, but my heart and soul.  That’s how we are taught by Martha Beck, herself, to go with our inner guts. 

So I am going to bed knowing that I am ready.  I am already coaching.  I am setting the intention to be a certified Martha Beck coach tomorrow.

And I passed!
I just got off the phone with an amazing Martha Beck Master coach with my final test. 
I am now an official Martha Beck certified coach! I did it! 
I love coaching.  I have watched this dream unfold before my eyes. As I pushed through my fear,  persevered, prayed, and had faith in myself, magic is happening.    
That’s the message that I want to spread the people that I coach.   :)

Martha Beck

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Jul 23

Delicious Quotes ~ Watch your thoughts…

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“Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
~ Shannon Pogue (thank you Misty)
  

Our thoughts come and go like the passing clouds.  It’s amazing how we can latch onto one of them & allow it to affect us so.  Then we dwell on it and it dictates how our day will go.  It can even change our health.  The thing is, as we notice our thoughts and how they affect us, we can change them. 

For instance, it’s my day off today and I love the sunshine.  It was sunny and bright earlier, but now it’s foggy and grey. I can take this a couple of ways ~
I could go with the thought,
“The nice weather is gone!  Look at this fog, it makes me so miserable”. 
How does that thought feel?  It makes me kind of sad, actually plain icky!  If I dwell on it, it makes me grumpy!  Then my grumpiness can rub off on my family.  There’s no telling how that would affect our evening.  

The fog didn’t make me miserable, my thought about the fog made me miserable! 

OR I could go with the thought,
”It was awesome to wake up to sunshine.  It’s foggy now, but I’m glad we had it most of the day”. 
That thought makes me feel thankful and nice.  I’m not dwelling on the fog, but on the nice day we had.  If I carry that feeling on through the evening, I will enjoy my family time.  

I’m not “sugar coating it”; I am deliberately choosing a better thought.   

As we change our thoughts, we literally can change our health and our way of life.

 Are you noticing your thoughts?  They are powerful, but you own the power ~ you can change them!       

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Jul 16

Delicious Quotes ~ 1st in a series

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I love to read short, simple quotes that feel delicious to my soul.  My body craves these words much more than dessert, really!

 
 My favorite one of this week came via an email from a friend.  Author is unknown.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet!

Pretty cool, isn’t it? 

I see it as sometimes I pray for things to happen in my life; then I wait and wait and…..nothing seems to happen.

This quote is a reminder that I can ask God for changes in my life, but I have to be willing to get off of my buns and do the work.  
It’s up to me to put myself out there and go, then He can point me in the right direction and arrange for things to happen in my favor.

How about you, can you relate?  

Do you have any delicious quotes of your own that you’d like to share?Thanks and glad you stopped by.

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Jul 12

Got Diet Rules?

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I’ve been on a quest of sorts to stop my DIET THINKING.  I have been on many a diet over the last 40 or so years.  I lost weight, but the thing is, I’d gain it back as I lived on that damn cycle over and over and over.  I’m tired of it!  Now I am finding that as I’m relearning to eat “Normal”, as in eating when I’m hungry and stopping when my body is full, my mind constantly spews out confusing diet rules.  I don’t know where they all came from.  I think they are mutations of each other that got morphed together.  There is a vigorous war in my head about eating.  So, I decided to list some of my many diet rules and thought that maybe you might add some too.  I don’t know about you, but I am so done with rules! 

Don’t eat past 7:00 pm.
I must write down every morsel that goes into my mouth. 
I must eat protein with every meal.
I must avoid all carbs unless they are good carbs such as whole grain breads, pasta or rice.
I must keep my snacks at 2 Weight Watcher points or 100 calories each.
I must only eat a half sandwich on regular bread or I can have a whole sandwich on low calorie or 1 point bread.
I must only have a small snack after dinner of 100 calorie (2 point) popcorn, snackbar or beer.
I must not eat while watching TV or driving.
I must only stand on one foot with my one eye open when eating a Snickers bar (Ha, threw that one in to see if you would notice)
I shouldn’t have pasta, cake, Cheetos, cheesecake or any other favorite food because I can’t control myself with just one serving.
I can only have 16 pretzels with my sandwich at lunch.  No chips allowed. 
I could go on and on……

It’s no wonder that when I do have something like a cake or pizza in my house, I want to devour it.  My primal instincts believe that I can never have them again.

Since my last diet, I’ve gone up a size, okay maybe two sizes, which would usually mean that I would pull out the diet books and start going to meetings.  That’s been my life long pattern.  I’m ready to find my natural weight and not the crazy highs or lows that I have allowed.  

I know that my mind and body are just oh’ so confused in that I am not on that diet merry go round anymore.  They’re waiting to go into “starvation mode” of another diet.  I think it’s time to make peace between my body and what I put into it.  I mean, it knows what I need if I can stop the diet frenzy and pay attention to it.  I’m lovingly and patiently trying to retrain this diet brain of mine.  I want to drop my crazy food thoughts and just….well…eat as God intended me to eat.

My goal is to eat like a two year old.  Eat when I’m hungry, what I am hungry for, and then not worry about it.  It’s just food and it’s much more fun to go out and play!

So, how about you?  Got any diet rules that you want to ditch?

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