Are you able to tell the difference between feeling bad because someone hurt you, and feeling badly because you hurt someone? This is what being an adult is about. It is the essence of ownership of yourself and your behaviour. It is a critical exercise to reflect on this distinction and to understand that your…
Author: ilanagrostern
My Pledge to You
My Pledge to You To My Fellow Humans, I see you. I mean, I really see you. I see you along the continuum of your own timeline, at your pace, in the set of challenges that are both unique to you and, at the same time, the challenges of our entire species. I see you…
Express Yourself
My impetus, more and more as time goes on, is to share aspects of myself, with everyone, without reservation, and without concern for social construct. Why is this so important to me? The older I get and the more intimately I work with women of all ages, the more acutely aware I become of the…
Have Faith
If you think that your problems are unique to you, or if you’ve been holding on to shame because you’ve convinced yourself that you’re abnormal, or if you can’t see the way out of where you’ve managed to end up, take comfort in knowing that you are in VERY good company. The way our society…
Use Your Gifts
Today for the first time I expressed outloud what has been a central theme for me most of my life but I never fully saw that I was doing. If you’ve been given a gift, use it to elevate yourself above the crowd. Don’t be the person who doesn’t show what she’s good at because…
Ilana Grostern Coaching 