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My Word for 2024
I hope you’ve taken time to think of a word or phrase that represents what you would love to create more of this year. Our thoughtfulness...
Marcy Kocher
Jan 22, 20242 min read


Happy New Year!
I hope you enjoyed the holidays and took some time to reflect on 2023 and what you would like to create for 2024. January marks a new...
Marcy Kocher
Jan 21, 20243 min read


Happy Old Year!
I hope you’re looking forward to the new year. I am. New is exciting for our brain. Let me give you a tip on starting your new year on...
Marcy Kocher
Jan 21, 20242 min read


Rest
It’s the home stretch—the week before Christmas. I hope you’re all prepared and enjoying the decorations, cookies, and music. But if...
Marcy Kocher
Jan 21, 20242 min read


Happyish Holidays
You’ve heard me say before that life is 50/50, 50% good and 50% bad. There will always be ups and downs. That’s just part of the human...
Marcy Kocher
Jan 21, 20242 min read


Holiday Grief
I know grief doesn’t seem very holiday-ish, but it’s been a common topic of conversation with my clients recently, and I thought maybe...
Marcy Kocher
Jan 2, 20243 min read


Giving Makes Us Happy
Several years ago, I learned of an organization called Charity Water. It’s a non-profit that brings clean and safe drinking water to...
Marcy Kocher
Dec 1, 20232 min read


How Gratitude Changes Your Brain
Ready or not, the holidays are upon us. How would you like to experience them this year? Did you know you get to choose? You get to...
Marcy Kocher
Nov 20, 20233 min read


Holiday Stress and Overwhelm
How are you doing? Now is about the time holiday stress and overwhelm start to kick in. Overwhelm is when your brain believes some...
Marcy Kocher
Nov 13, 20233 min read


Planning Fun
For the last few weeks, we’ve been working on creating intentions for the holiday season. When we do the internal work first, the...
Marcy Kocher
Nov 6, 20233 min read


Equal Air Time
One more thing before we get back to our discussion of the holidays. We can’t deny that the media is full of bad news, and when that’s...
Marcy Kocher
Oct 30, 20233 min read


Love Conquers Fear
Many of my friends and clients are deeply affected by what’s going on in the news recently, so I’m briefly pausing my series on preparing...
Marcy Kocher
Oct 28, 20232 min read


Christmas isn’t a real thing
The holiday season isn’t always joyful. For some of us, it’s lonely, painful, and stressful. But the reality is the holidays don’t make...
Marcy Kocher
Oct 16, 20233 min read


People Pleasing During the Holidays
As we go through this series of preparing for the holidays, we have created awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and actions. We’ve...
Marcy Kocher
Oct 9, 20233 min read


How do you want to feel
My husband and I went to dinner a few nights ago and discussed the questions I sent you last week. Here are some things we decided. We...
sam43814
Oct 2, 20232 min read


Holiday Decisions
Last week, we talked about choices. Life is all about choices. Choice leads to freedom, and freedom leads to joy. Remember, we ALWAYS...
Marcy Kocher
Sep 25, 20232 min read


Choices
Have you heard the story of the pot roast? It goes something like this; A mom is preparing a pot roast for dinner and meticulously cuts...
Marcy Kocher
Sep 18, 20232 min read


Preparing for the Holidays
It’s that time of year again. Well, almost. Personally, I’m not crazy about stores bringing out Christmas decorations before Halloween....
Marcy Kocher
Sep 11, 20232 min read


We’ve Come a Long Way
Labor Day, an annual celebration of workers and their achievements, originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal...
Marcy Kocher
Sep 4, 20231 min read


Barbie
So, I saw the Barbie movie, and I have some thoughts. Regardless of your opinion of her, she is an American icon. She represents an ideal...
Marcy Kocher
Aug 21, 20233 min read
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