Stacey Curnow

Your Einstein Time

One of my coaching clients wrote to me this week about the issue she finds most challenging in her life. She is the mother of a 2 year-old spirited child and the effort of meeting his needs, her husband’s, her own and those of the household often leaves h... Read >

You Got to Have Friends

You may not feel like you have the time or energy to create special gatherings with your friends, but studies show that maintaining good friends has great benefits and is truly worth the effort. Research shows that people who have a large network of fr... Read >

What Are You Mirroring

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. - Goethe The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This principle was na... Read >

Using EFT to Release Your Inner Saboteur

EFT is a needle-free form of acupuncture that is based on new discoveries regarding the connection between your body's subtle energies, your emotions, and your health. When I say "needle-free" I mean that anyone can do EFT anywhere. You just need a basic ... Read >

Unconditional Friendship (with yourself and others)

"My parents never supported or encouraged me." "I feel ashamed when I yell at my kids." "My partner doesn't appreciate me." "My boss makes too many impossible demands." Thoughts like these can enter our minds throughout the day and often cause stress, an... Read >

The Power of Your Story

Many people go through life creating by default; they just aren't clear about what they really want. They become hung up on how much is going wrong in their life or in the world. And once that happens, they start to tell a story – they construct a narrati... Read >

SMART Goals: How to Achieve Your Dreams!

When I was in my early 30s I ran marathons. In my whole life I had never been a runner, and if you had told me even a year before I started that I would run one, I would have thought you were crazy. Now I look back and know that you can attain any goal wh... Read >

Shine a Light

One of my coaching clients recently went through a divorce. She has worked hard to get to a place where she can appreciate all the good that came from the relationship. Her teen-aged daughter is foremost in her appreciation. But it is also in relation ... Read >

Send the Gatekeeper a New Memo

The Reticular Activating System (RAS for short) is a tiny part of the brain with a big and important job. It controls consciousness and acts as a filter. At any given moment you have approximately 2 million bits of sensory information available to you. Yo... Read >

Resilience

If you were to gather up the day’s news you would invariably come to the conclusion that the world needs saving, right? Well, I expect it will need saving tomorrow, too. And in the meantime, I am going to reflect on what it means to “do something" in the ... Read >

Notes From the Bottom of a Well

Before you start reading this article, I’d like you to sit quietly for a few seconds. Take in a full breath, let it fill your lungs, and then release it slowly. Repeat this simple breathing exercise and include the words from my favorite meditation: Br... Read >

No Success Like Failure

"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." ~Thomas Edison There is a field of research that studies how scientists study things. And by scientists, I mean anyone who acquires knowledge by forming a hypothesis—essentially a belief about w... Read >

Lessons of the Albatross

Last night a friend and I were talking about some challenges in his life and I remembered a line from a poem by Robert Bly: The albatross that lands on the mast began flying a thousand years ago. A long time ago, back when we were pure positive en... Read >

How to Be a “Completionista”

Sometimes the "incompletes" in our lives can add up and we can start to feel overwhelmed. There are big incompletes -- our long-held dreams, our unpursued passions -- and then there are the little incompletes -- the stuff we see every day that niggles at ... Read >

Giving Birth to a Mid-Life You Love

Christiane Northrup wrote one of my favorite books, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. In the early years of my practice as a nurse-midwife, I referred to that book more than any other. And I now feel that her more recent book The Wisdom of Menopause promise... Read >