The Coaches‘ Cup Podcast

How often do you do absolutely nothing? In this age of cell phones and always being available, few of us schedule time where we do nothing. Listen as Judith and Sonya make the case for scheduling nothing time into your daily routine.

Are you too busy to do the things you really want to be doing in your life? Do you move through your days in a blur with no real plan to organize your actions? Listen as Coach Sonya talks about how her transition from university life to retirement has created new opportunities to be "busy" rather than productive and how she is coaching herself away from the term "busy". 

Urges happen to us daily. They can make us feel anxious and feeling like giving in is the only choice.  However, if we can accept our urges and welcome them in with curiosity, we will be well on our way to our goals! Listen as Coaches Judith and Sonya offer tips on getting curious about our urges!

In our culture, pushing down our feelings is a common reaction to negative or even "big" feelings. We use avoidant strategies such as food, alcohol, and scrolling social media to keep them at bay.  But what if you didn't have to fear those big feelings? Listen this week as Coaches Judith and Sonya discuss why it is more painful to avoid a feeling than it is to actually feel it.

If you're tired of having goals but never getting the results you want, this episode is for you! Listen as Coaches Judith and Sonya discuss how to take different actions to move toward the results you've been dreaming of! 

Are you harder on yourself than you are your friends and family? Do you get frustrated with your attempts to change rather than getting curious? If you answered yes to these questions, then you, my friend, are probably suffering from your self-judgement. Listen as Coaches Judith and Sonya offer ways for you to recognize your self-judgment and give your brain some new ways to think. 

Do you know what you want out of life?  If you're not sure, then Coaches Judith and Sonya are here to help you out! Listen this week as we give you tips for how to zero in on the things that are important to you!

Being in integrity with yourself is necessary for experiencing true success. In week two of our discussion of The Big Leap, Judith and Sonya teach us how to grow from a place of integrity.

Do you ever feel like you're stuck in some part of your life? Maybe you haven't worked on the goals you set for yourself. Maybe you feel overwhelmed and don't know how to move forward. If this sounds like you, then listen this week as Judith and Sonya discuss how to change the questions you're asking yourself in a way that will get you unstuck and moving forward again! 

This week, Coach Jane Pilger is back with Judith and Sonya to discuss how we can use what we know about our nervous systems to widen our windows of tolerance. Learning how to widen our windows of tolerance allows us to self regulate without buffering habits such as binging, over-drinking, over-spending, or any of the other "overing" habits we might currently use. 

This week, Coach Judith and Coach Sonya are joined by coach Jane Pilger to talk about how our nervous systems work. The nervous system connects our brains to our bodies, but what does mean for you? How can understanding your nervous system help you reach your goals? Listen as Coach Jane explains how the nervous system works and what it means for our daily lives.

Here's a back to basics episode to remind us all that stressors are part of being a human on this planet.  While stressors are ever-present, we get to decide how we deal with the stress. Listen this week as Coach Judith and Coach Sonya talk about how to allow the stressors while managing the stress!

This week, Judith and Sonya have a frank talk about anxiety--the different types; the way it affects our bodies, our lives, our relationships; and learning how to function when anxiety wants to "hijack" our executive functions. Listen as Judith discusses her own experiences with and her triumphs over crippling anxiety. 

Most of us deal with feelings of unworthiness from time to time.  This week, Judith and Sonya talk about how to ignore messaging from our past and the consumer culture and to instead embrace our own worthiness. We are all worthy. Listen in and find out more about your worthiness. 

Most of us will deal with our aging parents at some point in our lives. Listen this week as Judith and Sonya discuss how we can decide ahead of time how we are going to show up when it's time to deal with our aging parents. If you have an aging parent and you need resources or help with him or her, check out eldercare.acl.gov for elder care resources in your area. 

Where is your happy place?  Did you know it can be with you wherever you go and at any time? Listen this week and Judith and Sonya discuss the keys to accessing your happy place!

Constraint doesn't sound very fun, but it can be the key to your success! Listen this week as Judith and Sonya discuss the benefits of practicing constraint as you journey toward your goals.  

This week we're answering another listener question, How do we handle the hard times? Challenging times can be opportunities for growth, but we can all use some help handling them. Listen as Judith and Sonya offer their techniques for making it through!

This week, Judith and Sonya answer all of your questions! Learn more about your Coaches' Cup podcasters this week as they celebrate their 100th episode! 

Toxic positivity is the belief that we should maintain a positive mindset regardless of the circumstances. Even though we can often acknowledge the problem with toxic positivity in theory, in practice we do not like the discomfort of "negative" feelings. Listen as Judith and Sonya challenge toxic positivity and offer solutions for overcoming it. 

We often get so caught up in meeting the needs of others that we can forget who we are. This week, Sonya and Master Coach Carrie Marshall discuss four tips for getting back in touch with who we are.  Listen to learn how to get back in touch with our true selves!

The thought work we do to reframe our thoughts also works on our physical spaces. In fact, doing the same work in our physical and mental spaces helps us to build good habits. This week, Becky Brown Blackburn of The Hoss Lady podcast teaches us how to declare, clear, and reset our minds and our homes.

It's easy to focus on the end goal or the progress we think we need to be making, but focusing on the process we are using to get there can be even more helpful. Listen as Judith and Sonya explain how to dig into and learn to love the process rather than worrying about the end goal.

How do you identify who you are? Are you a parent or a spouse or a teacher or an attorney or a stay-at-home parent? It’s so easy to identify ourselves by titles and attached to those titles are a list of things we should do as those people. Our guest coach, Cynthia Dils, offers Judith and Sonya alternatives to labeling ourselves and suggestions for finding ourselves beyond the titles we’re given.

How often do you wish for more balance in your life? Most of us spend quite a bit of time thinking about how to achieve balance, but this week, Judith and Sonya argue that harmony is much more attainable than balance. Listen in and learn the difference between them and why harmony is within your reach!