by HelenaAnn | Mar 27, 2024 | Enneagram, Relationships
The Enneagram is an ancient understanding of personality types that helps people improve their relationship to self and others. Read on to learn how to design a space that helps you best express yourself and live your healthiest lifestyle… Type One: The Moralist, The...
by HelenaAnn | Mar 6, 2023 | Interpreting Movies, Music, and Books
Nathaniel Rateliff at the Colorado Symphony, March 4, 2023 I really love music– having grown up in a musical family and singing and dancing being a favorite way to connect with people and myself. I listen to a wide variety– though folk, indie rock, showtunes,...
by HelenaAnn | Sep 15, 2020 | Conscious Parenting, Uncategorized
I used to be able to separate my work life from my family life pretty easily–divided by a commute and hours of the day. And my care for global issues (the environment, social justice, societal issues) were always with me, but I could generally compartmentalize...
by HelenaAnn | Aug 13, 2019 | Using Your Emotions
Last weekend as I was white-knuckling my steering wheel, going 45 in a 60 mph mountain stretch of I-70 E back towards Denver, and shrieking as a truck splashed a puddle over my windshield, I thought–this is a really good metaphor for the emotional ride of...
by HelenaAnn | Oct 8, 2018 | Clear Communication, Facilitation Best Practice, Social Activism
I attended four panel discussions over the course of last week, between Denver Startup Week and a Symposium on Denver Design and Zoning, both wonderful events! I was reminded that panel discussions have great potential for good learning and inspiration, but also can...
by HelenaAnn | Sep 20, 2016 | Clear Communication, Conscious Parenting, Using Your Emotions
I found myself snapping at a cashier the other day. She was trying, like well-intentioned strangers do, to engage with my three year old. Which is great. But it ends up coming all wrapped up in expectation, and judgement, like so many of our adult interactions. So my...
by HelenaAnn | Mar 22, 2016 | Conscious Parenting, Practical Spirituality
Our role as parents is to take care of our children. And their role is to be taken care of. Simple, right? But never easy. And that’s only the beginning. Being a mom has shown me a depth of care and compassion that I’ve never know before. And I’m so grateful to be in...
by HelenaAnn | Mar 2, 2016 | Clear Communication, Enneagram, Practical Spirituality, Relationships
Understanding and accepting our differences actually helps us to see how we are the same. Does that sound strange? It is the best way I can describe how this reality has been coming to me lately. And has inspired this second post in my series on the agreement to...
by HelenaAnn | Feb 10, 2016 | Practical Spirituality
Perhaps you have encountered The Four Agreements—a book and guide for achieving personal freedom. One of the agreements is “do not take anything personally” by which Don Miguel Ruiz means that nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection...
by HelenaAnn | Dec 14, 2015 | Coaching, Practical Spirituality, Relationships
It is so tempting to try and save each other– whether in a romantic relationship, friendship, coaching relationship. When you care deeply for someone, and they lose site of themselves through an unhealthy relationship, depression, or addiction, etc. you want to...
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