Colleen Phillips on April 29th, 2008

Hello,
Looking for a good read? Here is another book I recommend. It is called “On My Own” The Art of Being A Woman Alone by Florence Falk.
Recently, a fellow widow found my coaching website (http://www.coachingforwidows/) and requested to meet for lunch. We met, found we had much in common and had a most insightful [...]

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Colleen Phillips on April 28th, 2008

Hello to all,
If you are a widow, how long has it been for you since you lost your spouse?
I am coming up on 4 years this May, 27th. It is so very hard to believe! On one hand it feels like moments ago and on the other, a lifetime. I still remember uncontrollably shaking and [...]

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Colleen Phillips on April 21st, 2008

Hello to all,
The University of Southern Florida (Academy of Advanced Learning) has asked me to conduct a class and share my strategies for facing the fear of being alone and moving forward. I will be conducting the class later this week and will share many of my coaching strategies and also the top 10 things [...]

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Colleen Phillips on April 10th, 2008

Hello to all,
 
Life is full of “sliding doors”. Changes, opportunities, choices, losses, grief, growth…
 
It has been said (because I’ve heard it or read it some place a number of times so it must be so, right?) that life is 10% what happens and 90% what we do with what happens and how we are with [...]

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Colleen Phillips on April 9th, 2008

Hello,
Last week, my son and I flew to New Mexico to visit my inlaws (my late husbands mother and his step father). It had been some time since we had seen one another. When we arrived I knew something was terribly wrong. I thought before we left she sounded depressed, tired and off [...]

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Colleen Phillips on April 4th, 2008

Hello to all you wonderful women,
Many speak of the power and support of friendships. Many women share how important our friendships are with fellow women. Why is it in the busy “ness” of life, we tend to not tend to our garden of women friends. Just as we may at times put ourselves on the [...]

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