Traci Philips, the Innate Coach Blog

Riding home from a volleyball game the other night, I asked my 15-year old, “Do you like to be managed?” “Heck NO!” she replied, immediately. “I hate being controlled!” I glanced over at her and then asked, “Why do you feel management is about control?” She turned and...

Last month, I wrote an article about receiving. Since then, a number of people have asked me how they can get to the place where they can truly receive. For me, there are a few key concepts to look at and understand: Resistance, Assumptions/Expectations, Releasing,...

“How are YOU?” A client texted this to me on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It was at the end of his response to my earlier check in to inquire how he was after a particularly challenging week. Typically, I would have replied with a “great” or “been a good weekend,” but I...

“Apparently, they are predicting an upcoming food shortage and the price of eggs may go up to twelve dollars a dozen,” my husband said over dinner the other night. “Really??? That’s a dollar an egg!” my daughter exclaimed. “Good thing we have chickens and don’t buy...

One of our greatest challenges as humans has been creating balance in our lives—balance in our relationships, balance between work and personal time, internal balance within our emotional states and balance in our diets and the amount of time that we spend resting and...

We are in a time where both choice and responsibility are being deeply highlighted. No matter what we face, seeing we always have a choice to make decisions that will align with what we want to create and experience is essential. When we view life through this lens,...

Being a visionary leader means you are motivated to guide your company or organization to reach its greatest potential.  This has you operating at a different level, with a view and focus that is unlike that of most others around you. You are tasked with shepherding...

It’s true that the meaning we choose to give to a situation or thing becomes the experience we have with it. Story shapes reality. I find this simple model a great reminder of how much we do have control over what we think, feel and create in our lives. It’s important...

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This is a well-known quote by Thomas Edison. Edison lived a long time ago, and yet, we still seem to hold this belief to be self-evident. During much of human history, we have been told in order...