26Apr

5 PRACTICES THAT HELPED ME STOP BEING A PEOPLE-PLEASER

This post appeared on Tiny Buddha. “If you spend your life pleasing others, you spend your life.” – Cheryl Richardson Looking back on my life, I came to realize that I spent quite a high amount of my precious time trying. Trying to be perfect. Trying to be appreciated and liked by everyone else around […]
26Apr

WHEN I STOPPED COMPETING, I SET MYSELF FREE

This post appeared on Tiny Buddha. “With nothing to compare yourself to, aren’t you perfect?” – Byron Katie I have never liked competition. Every time I compete, I feel pressured and disconnected from others. I love harmony, peace, collaboration, and win-win situations, kind of like “me happy, you happy.” I don’t need to watch another […]
14Jun

I AM NOT WHAT I OWN

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation of all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle I grew up in an Eastern-European middle-class family. After the Romanian revolution in 1989, money got depreciated at such a level that, with the same amount of money my parents could buy a car, they ended up […]
14Jun

MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOUR FEARS

“If you don’t know the nature of fear, you can never feel fearless.”-  Pema Chodron Many of my clients ask me how it is to live with no fears. I tell them that I don’t really know. Coaching is my profession, and still, I am human. The big difference between the Old Me before getting certified […]
14Jun

THE IMPORTANCE OF SPENDING TIME ALONE

“You can never feel lonely when you like the person you’re alone with.”- Wayne Dyer I often get to hear from clients who do coaching with me, that they start spending more time alone. Very interesting, and here is why: as they start seeing themselves in a different light and love themselves more, spending more […]
05Jun

FORGET WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT AND DO WHAT’S RIGHT FOR YOU

This article appeared on Tiny Buddha. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.“ – Steve Jobs When we come to this world, we know nothing. We are all products of the societies that raised us and shaped our belief system with things labeled good or bad, right or wrong, normal or abnormal. […]
27Nov

I WILL NOT BE PUT IN A BOX: I AM NOT WHAT I DO, OWN, THINK, OR FEEL

This post appeared on Tiny Buddha. “All that I seek is already in me. “ ~ Louise Hay My world collapsed the day I became unemployed. After a successful thirteen-year career in a multinational company, working across different countries and cultures, I ended up with no job. I wasn’t an expat leader in Shanghai any longer; […]
02Nov

WHAT HELPS ME COPE WITH DIFFICULT EMOTIONS

“One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. “One is Evil – It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. “The other is […]