What bugs you? Who really plugs you in? What quality in that person really pisses you off?

What if I told you that the very thing you hate holds a most important secret to your success?  That’s a pretty loaded statement I realize, but what I know from my own personal roadblocks and from coaching others is that the very things we can’t be with, won’t let us be.  It is damn near impossible to succeed when you are at war within yourself.  Imagine the ultimate tug-of-war happening right within your own mind and body.  Does that sound like some success strategy?  I don’t think so!  Yet so often we find ourselves living out this tug-of-war either consciously or unconsciously within us day after day after day.  And then we wonder why we’re not happy, not following our passions, or lacking meaning in our lives.

I have had this powerful visceral experience more than once in my life.  The one where I am just so resistant that smoke is coming out of my ears. Or I have such a righteous position that I can’t see straight.  Then all of a sudden something happens and Boom! it is like someone switched on the light in a dark room and woke me up.  Woke me up to what was really going on inside of me.  The reasons why I was being so resistant or righteous or stuck or whatever.  Usually because there was an underlying feeling or part of me that I didn’t like. So, instead I played stubborn or destructive or avoided it altogether which of course resulted in nothing but self-sabotage and tears of yet another goal or dream gone by the wayside. The instant I could shift my thinking and relationship with myself the obstacles in my path started to melt away.  The joy factor goes way up and not surprisingly so does the success factor.  They really are related.

I find myself passionately revisiting these principles for myself and my clients as I watch the new Debbie Ford movie The Shadow Effect and engage in dialogue about the shadow.  The world we currently live in is so very ripe for this message.  People waking up each day to jobs being less secure than ever, facing financial troubles never imagined in their lifetime, and a media industry that thrives on and fuels drama. No wonder we seem to be either whipped into a frenzy or totally numbing out because it is just too much.  It doesn’t have to be that way, though and the choices begin with a willingness to go inside and looking within yourself for the gifts, the answers, and the brilliance that is there in spite of it all.

If this conversation intrigues you and you are ready to have a conversation that will literally change your life for the better exponentially, contact me for a get acquainted chat.

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Anyone who has heard me speak knows how life-changing my discovery of Debbie Ford’s work was. Well, later this month you don’t even have to leave your home to have your own socks knocked off by the power of discovering and understanding your own shadow. The movie The Shadow Effect (release date June 26th) is a journey that will take you from your darkest thought to your greatest dream. Debbie Ford leads you on this journey and is joined by other luminary spiritual teachers Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, James Van Praagh, Mark Victor Hansen, and many other inspired teachers.

I can personally say that the biggest catalyst that created the life I live right now was discovering this work and being trained personally by Debbie Ford and her amazing staff not only on how to embrace my own shadows but how to lead other people just like you through a powerful transformational coaching process to do the same.

The movie trailer was just released to the public last night and I have been itching to share it with you. I invite you to take a deep breath, watch, and listen deeply. I promise you that you’ll be transfixed and perhaps at times even disturbed by the message (and this is a good thing I promise you).

I will be leading exclusive Shadow Salons which will include showing the movie at select locations within the Greater Philadelphia Area. If you want to learn more…or have a group that would like to host one, please contact me so we can chat.

To pre-order the DVD click here.