Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Cocoons. There are times in life when we must pull away from all else and spin ourselves a cocoon. We rest in cocoons even as we are transformed. In cocoons we shed what we have suffered through losses, assaults, and upheavals. We re-emerge as butterflies--ready for life's next unhindered flights. Episode Art: "Cocoon" by Awnen from website deviantart dot com

Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+. Tenacity. Plowing as a metaphor for preparing the ground for the sowing of life's healthy seeds. Borrowing a metaphor of plowing from Jesus of Nazareth for preparing the grounds in anticipation of bountiful harvests. The inevitability of ongoing plowing ahead of each new growing season. Ray Kroc. Episode Art: photo, public domain, photographer unknown, silhouette of mountain climber

Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. What do we begin in life and then let go of? What do we begin in life and refuse to let go of? Tenacity. Chi-Ning Chu. Amelia Earhart. Louis Pasteur. Maya Angelou. Episode Art: mountain climber silhouette photo, public domain, photographer unknown

Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. The violence and upheavals are all around us and on the increase. You're a good person. You want to make a positive difference in the world. How do you figure out where to take hold of some kind of positive change process knowing that change will not come overnight? How do you engage without losing yourself in despair? How do you challenge with your own sanity still in tact? (Episode art: artist unknown, title unknown, public domain)

Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+. Unpredictability is part of life. Ruling out the devastating options now, we have to work into how we live the reality that the unexpected is on its way--sometimes joyous unpredictability, sometimes frustrating unpredictability. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Composer Ella Laya. Life plans and unpredictability. (Episode Art: "Big Wave - Fugaku Sanju Rokkei," Artist: Katsushika Hokusai, public domain)

Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Unpredictability. Life plans and unpredictability. The dreaded routines-ruts-rigormortis syndrome. Deepak Chopra. (Episode Art: "Big Wave - Fugaku Sanju Rokkei," Artist: Katsushika Hokusai, public domain)

Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Beauty is about much more than diverting or even inspiring; it is connected to our emotional health in more ways than one. (Episode art: "The Color of Joy," Artist: Michael Durst)

Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Life is experienced in components; each component in a sense has its own plot. It may be great when all components function together at the same level, especially when we are at celebrative moments. But we can learn, and we need to learn, to live robustly when our different components are at differents levels of functioning. (Episode Art: GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO, "Four Seasons in One Head," c. 1590, Paul Mellon Fund, National Gallery of Art, Open Access Collection)

Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ embracing. Saying who we are and what we're about, which is directly related to who we are. The risks and the reliefs! James Baldwin. Jerry Herman. Carl Sandburg. (Art: Uncertain origin, but collected from a public domain site.)

Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Most of us are interested in the topic of happiness either because we experience it and want to celebrate it or because we long for more of it. It is probably necessary for most of us to learn how to be happy even when not everything in life is ideal. It is a fact that happiness can be cultivated. Here’s to your happiness! (Episode Art: public domain painting, “Happiness” by Emily Carr)