Spirituality is an area of life we at the Handel Group® ask all clients to address. We don’t teach religion or promote any particular path, but spirituality has to factor in for any human being trying to better his or her life. I recommend yoga and meditation to most of my coaching clients. In fact, I recommended it to my ...Read More

A few weeks back, my husband and I spent two days coaching a couple once so in love, now on the brink of divorce. We had already been working with them individually, with my husband coaching the husband and I coaching the wife. We were managing to help each one cope with the stress of a dissolving marriage and the changes that would be ...Read More

Have you noticed that the New Agers are telling you to go towards your bliss? To notice what you love to do, what gives you pleasure and joy, and do more of that? Pshaw, I say. Gravitate to what you hate.

Here are some things I used to hate:
- Carrots
- Exercise that requ ...Read More

This doesn’t apply to all of you, only some of you. So you might want to stop reading if you can’t relate to the following statement: Food talks to me. If I let it, it can almost talk all day long. I have an excellent solution for how distracting this can be. It’s part of the Handel Method® and it’s called ...Read More

Trust me, I have tried to defy this law, but I find it to be unassailable: You cannot have two thoughts at once. While I am busy thinking about FOOD, I cannot also be thinking about what I want to accomplish in life. I also can’t be tuned into the thoughts, words or feelings of my husband, my kids, my co-workers or my friends. I ...Read More

She is too funny for me not to “borrow” from. One of our coaches at Handel Group® Life Coaching, Marnie Nir, just published an article about dating mistakes and I just knew you’d be interested in her insights. It ...Read More

Are you one of the millions of Americans out there searching for love, but can’t find it? Are you frustrated and annoyed with the dating scene? Is “all the good ones are taken” your favorite line? Most single people are unaware that their inability to find love has nothing to do with a deart ...Read More

It’s time for a little levity. I love comedy!

The comedian, Jeff Foxworthy, of Blue Collar Comedy fame, is known for his “You might be a redneck if . . . ” bit. Well, I liked that format so much (though please don’t hold his stereotyping against me) that I decided to do a Hand ...Read More

It’s getting to be that time of year when we especially take stock and think of changing. That makes me happy, but please don’t just make resolutions. Why? Resolutions are the reason the gym is so crowded on January 2nd, but also pretty empty by January 15th. Resolutions have within them the suggestion of an “if ...Read More

Usually my husband’s jokes get an eye roll or a snicker from me, but today I tried something new. I told him he is so funny. (He is.) I smiled big. I looked right at him and beamed. I was the sun and he was a big, purring cat, basking in my light. In the next few moments he made three more jokes and I became t ...Read More