Reviving Coaching Corner

It’s been a summer of chapters ending and new ones beginning. The summer began with my eldest graduating college. She is officially navigating adulthood. My youngest graduated high school and started her freshman year at college.  Hands-on parenting chapter ends and empty-nesting begins. Most of July, my siblings and I were in Daegu, South Korea visiting my elderly mother. She suffered a stroke. We collaborated, with extended family, to establish her long-term care. It’s unclear of her prognosis. The relationship we’ve had with our mother ends and a different chapter of the relationship begins.
 
These life transitions can throw life off balance. To re-calibrate and center myself, I took the time to pause and reflect. I want to mark these pivotal stages of life. I want to harness the gifts of wisdom, integrate them into my life, and be transformed. 
 
Throughout August, my colleague,Pamela Maxson, PhD, MCC shared her reflections and learnings on her 31 day countdown to retirement from Duke.  I was inspired with her commitment to write every day and vulnerably sharing those lessons. I’m re-committing to my writing journey. I’m reviving my dream to write, re-awakening my Coaching Corner blog. On 05/22/2018 was the last written blog post. There’s been a lot of living, not much writing. So for October, I will commit to writing 10 blog posts. 
 
I believe every life story is unique. I’m intrigued by how different and similar experiences of one’s life shapes who people are and yet to become. I’m a specialist of thriving in the “in-between”. The “in-between” are parts of my life where feelings of ambivalence, not just yes or no, but both exist. As a bi-cultural person, an Asian American woman, a parent of a biological & adoptive children, a former therapist and now a therapeutically informed coach, I straddle both/and existence. These are the intersections I will write from: to connect to myself and to connect with others. 
 
I invite you to come along on this writing journey and connect with me.