Traci Philips, the Innate Coach Blog

“Mom, can you explain to Dad what I’m talking about?” My daughter stood in my bedroom door looking pressed and frustrated. I looked up.  “Well, what is it, exactly, that you are talking about?” I asked her. She gave me an exaggerated sigh.  “Why I have to take time to...

“I’m good,” my client responded to the question, “how have you been feeling over the past week?” Having not received a clear response to the question, I probed. “Can you further define ‘good’ for me?” I asked. “Nothing is going wrong right now,” he started slowly....

Formidable Woman is an inspirational magazine for women everywhere who might sometimes question what they can achieve. It is a wonderful resource for learning about successful women – formidable women – and how they broke through ceilings, juggled career with family,...

I had a pivotal conversation with a client last week in which he shared his intentions for helping his kids process the thoughts and feelings they were having around their family’s shifting situation. “I want to create a safe place for them,” he said. “I want them to...

“It seems like the world is getting less noisy,” my client replied when asked what she had been noticing since our last conversation. “Can you tell me more about this?” I asked. “Well, maybe it’s that I’m paying less attention to what the world has to say and caring...

My daughter recently celebrated her 12th birthday, and as we do every year, we hosted a sleepover weekend for 7 of her closest friends. This year’s theme was backyard camping. It was also, my husband and I decided, to be entirely tech-free. As I texted families on...

One of the things I enjoy about my work is the ability to speak with enough people about the foundational shifts going on in their lives to see collective patterns and trends that run through each of their stories. A big one that has been influencing my work a lot...

In life, simply put, you have to take risks. There’s simply no way around it. Without the ability to embrace what risks bring, growth and development are much more challenging. Risk Management, whether in business or life, is about accepting, understanding, evaluating...

I recently had the opportunity to attend a powerful self leadership workshop. In one of the exercises, the facilitator asked us to partner up. We were instructed to take turns telling one another a story. The speaker was to speak for 2 minutes about something...