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Ellen Besso
Member since 06th September 2006
Occupation: Personal Coach for Midlife Women Through her 'Odyssey of Change' coaching program, Ellen Besso offers midlife women the opportunity to navigate the midlife maze and find joy & fullness in their lives. Personal action plans include strengthening the body-mind connection; releasing beliefs that limit growth; & specific actions to move you forward into your ideal life. To find out more about Ellen’s work and read other articles written by her contact:
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24th January 2008
”The mind is the security system of the body, so it wants to be in control to feel safe.”
Mona & Giovanni – Question the Mind
We operate under the illusion that we are in control. To surrender means to yield or give up. Surrendering t...
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24th January 2008
“Our dreams can help us at this time more than ever. They are indicators of deep desires, of where we want to take our lives.” Ellen Besso
It is time to visit my women’s cavern. ...
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24th January 2008
Who will I be when I grow up? Many of us kind of bumble along in life, going with the flow, without firm plans or goals. Others have a clearly delineated pathway from an early age. There’s no right or wrong way to do this. We need to find the right bala...
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24th January 2008
How do we balance our bodies, our minds and our spirits? You know those wheels that help us delineate the ‘slice’ of time we spend on various activities such as work, social, kids and partners etc. Well perhaps we could divide the pie into body, mind ...
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24th January 2008
Women fight or attempt to avoid perimenopause and menopause because our culture offers us no context from which to consider what is happening to us body, mind and soul. Our mothers’ generation didn’t really have a frame of reference for it either. B...
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24th January 2008
“Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can’t go”
Seng-ts’an – Zen founder
Byron Katie, author of Loving What Is, says “The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfect...
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30th July 2007
“ Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us.” – Steve Pressfield
You know that feeling we all get sometimes…that niggling urge to do something new and different? Or perhaps it’s a scream, a loud and urgent de...
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20th July 2007
When I took my coaching training, I had spent many years on my own self-growth as I simultaneously assisted others with life challenges. I thought I was pretty self-actualized. I gave myself permission to do most everything that appealed to me, including...
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05th July 2007
It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth”
Maria Isabel Barreno
Perimenopause now begins as early as 35 years of age. If you ask women what comes to mind when they think of menopause and perimenopause, you’ll often ...
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05th July 2007
Gratitude is about living in the present moment. When we’re not noticing all the good that’s in our lives, we often keep striving to achieve more, be more, get more. Or sometimes we’re locked into the past, into what didn’t work for us then. Holdi...
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05th July 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”. Part of trusting ourselves is listening to our intuition, or “the power of knowing things without conscious re...
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05th July 2007
“In an open, trusting environment people seek clarification and replace assumptions with understanding. Tragically, most workplaces are the converse.”
Erle Wheatley - “Structured Communication Builds Trust”
Some people seem to have an i...
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05th July 2007
The trend of working at home appears to be growing by leaps and bounds annually. A 2004 US report by In-Stat/MDR predicted that one-third of Americans would work at home at least part-time during 2004, either in their own small businesses or working fo...
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05th July 2007
Four million Canadian women and more than ten times as many American women are dealing with menopausal issues. Perimenopause, which is the build-up to menopause, begins as early as thirty-five years of age. What if the combined voices of this legion of...
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05th July 2007
Women are by nature and training nurturers. But we often carry this too far. We think of everyone else’s needs, but forget our own. How far can one woman stretch? Who will care for us if we don’t care for ourselves? What are the underlying beliefs tha...
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