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Welcome to the Living Large Coaching & Counseling blog and website!

Welcome to all the new people here!  This website is undergoing a facelift.  Please check back for new info and updates.

 

This blog is a self-help tool I created and am excited about sharing with you.

 

This multi-media website is published as a mental health resource as a means of providing you with the personalized help, coaching, and counseling you need for navigating life's many challenges.

You can get new blog posts and articles delivered directly by email by sending me a message request on the contact form found on this blog.

I am now doing counseling, life coaching, and consulting online. Just ask!

So...!  What's next?

Read the posts that appeal to you.  Respond to the ones that resonate with you most.  Let me know how you're doing with any life challenges you have.  Most importantly, leave a comment.  

 

Let me and other readers know if this blog has improved your quality of your life!  Was it the writing?  The concepts?  Or, just tell me what's been meaningful for you.

You can always contact me directly by sending a message here on the contact form, or book an appointment by going to my FB page at the link below:

Book an Appt. or Free Discovery Call on FB here

I'll be posting weekly here and on Facebook, as well.

Thanks for visiting!  Come back often!

Until then, Live Large!

Cindy

Founder, Life Coach & Counselor
M.A. Clinical & Health Psychology

Living Large Coaching & Counseling
Life Management & Behavioral Health Services

"It's Your Life, Your Evolution"
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Short Bio
I'm a writer and a life coach/counselor.  Like my FB page to read more about my mission in mental health and find more support.

I help people live transformative lives beyond the early conditioning of childhood or "baggage" we carry, and teach others how to get past being judgmental and live in peace in divisive times.  We're all in this together!

I've worked for many years with folks facing the most challenging life situations. Prison, criminal offenses, addiction, codependency, PTSD, and even sex offenders.

The gift I bring to my practice is an inner stance of non-judgment and loving kindness. When we learn to live from a place of non-judgment, life becomes an adventure in possibilities. I, myself, have faced and over come many huge life challenges and transitions.

May you find the resources you need here to live a miraculous life!

Cindy
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Why I Created Living Large Coaching

Living a Miraculous Life

 

I created this blog as a self help resource and tool for others to share what's worked for me in living a miraculous life. If you need help in doing that, I am all up for supporting you in that endeavor.

The concept and philosophy behind this venture stems from this simple truth:

"If you are lucky enough to wake up today on this side of the grave, I urge you to, "Live Large". This means living an unforgettable life beyond your wildest dreams …

Forget yesterday's woes, petty grievances, and where you might have gone wrong. Instead, find the forgiveness for yourself and others to move beyond a small life and find your deepest passion -- that place inside that moves you so deeply, so passionately that you can't stay away from it. Then cultivate that prompting and share it with the world so that others may help you, for they, too, yearn to live their dreams. The daring comes from learning to take the risk, to believe that the Universe will support you, and that yes, you are worthy of great love and a life so large that it changes the world, one star fish at a time."

Do you dare to dream?

Book a FREE Discovery Call, to see if working with me is right for you.

For more resources, "Like & Share", my FB page with your friends and family to learn more about how you can create a miraculous life.

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The Dead Zone - Intro to the Inception of this Blog!

Welcome to my blog! It's dreadful, I must confess... I've become a social media junky, almost over night.

It all started with a Twitter workshop a few weeks ago -- and blossomed from there. Before that, I said I would never Twitter. Who cares about what everybody's doing? How incredibly boring and stupid. And, I had forever written off Spacebook, Myspace, or Facebook (or whatever you call these silly friend site mediums) as just another lame crutch for the socially and emotionally retarded - I needed real PEOPLE!

But, I got on Twitter with my new friend Skeeter, who put together the great functional Twitter workshop, and I was hooked. Soon I was following other friends, and it was great to log on, and read all the tweets; it all seemed so much faster and simpler than e-mail. About the same time, someone kind of cool friended me on Facebook - (yeah, I still had an account set up -- I wanted to see what all the hype was about.) I definitely had this love/hate relationship going with the computer.

Enter Julie and Julia: The Movie - Thanksgiving night. I thought the story was fiction, a fun flick to showcase Meryl Streep. WRONG! True story, enter great blogging, and healing, and personal growth. Too bad Julia Child didn't see it that way.

Now, I am an expert in the arena of writing and healing -- wrote a master's thesis on it. But, that was about private trauma journaling. In my mind, public blogging smacked of major narcissism - a malady of our modern day Me, Me, Me culture. So... after seeing the movie Julie and Julia -- I was pretty impressed, Julie took a huge risk and it paid off...a blog, a project, a movie and book deal - a new life.

Now I get into reading blogs online (some of which I will share with you soon).

Still, I hadn't thought of blogging myself, until the other night, when I entered the "Dead Zone" with a few friends. Let me explain.

I went out to hear some acoustic music with friends. The musician never showed up. No phone call, no explanation - nothing. The night soon degenerated into a monumental dead zone of excuses. No one wanted to drive the 12 miles out to another cafe for music in a neighboring town. The reasons: "My Crohn's is acting up." "It's a bad night for driving, the weather's too bad." It was 6:30 pm in the evening, so I went by myself.

The whole drive out, all I kept thinking was -- what makes people decide to stop living, and start believing their own excuses? What happens to propel folks into living in what I call, "The Dead Zone of Excuses"? It goes like this: "I can't; it won't work; I'm too tired, too broke, too old, too young, etc.", to take risks, really live, and get out of my own way -- yadda, yadda, yadda.

It was a darn lonely drive. When I got there - the cafe was closed. Talk about a bummer, but never mind, it was a great night for a drive -- mild, balmy, misty -- I went grocery shopping at an unfamiliar Walmart -- got some great buys on my favorite Kashi cereal that's much higher priced out where I live. Then, I ran into the owner of the cafe!! They closed to spend time with family decorating for Christmas. "Good for them.", I thought, taking time off to be with family!

The whole ride home, I felt great; excuses hadn't ruined my night, and I suddenly realized I needed to share this experience! Yes, even BlOG about it. I got home and jumped on Twitter, to read all the tweets from my new friends (can't believe I'm saying tweets), then researched where the best blog sites seem to be. This one came up first-rate. Best tools, quick to put up, AND you can follow me, just like on Twitter.

So what I want to do now is hear from YOU! How do excuses keep you from really living? What are your favorite excuses? After reading this, how will you plan to stop believing your own excuses and get out of the Dead Zone? How do you plan to live your own unique version of Living Large?