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Tranquil Journeys
by David Albert Farmer
Life coaching tidbits. Individuals, couples, and families often need support trying to find their way out of life events and experiences that have left them struggling if not immobilized with feeling such as unresolved anger, confusion, pain, grief, guilt, hopelessness. Dr. David Farmer wants to help. (original podcast image by Bill Westerhoff)
Episodes
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Cocoons
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Cocoons. There are times in life when we must pull away from all else and spin ourselves a cocoon. We rest in cocoons even as we are transformed. In cocoons we shed what we have suffered through losses, assaults, and upheavals. We re-emerge as butterflies--ready...
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Tenacity (part 2)
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+. Tenacity. Plowing as a metaphor for preparing the ground for the sowing of life's healthy seeds. Borrowing a metaphor of plowing from Jesus of Nazareth for preparing the grounds in anticipation of bountiful harvests. The inevitability of ongoing plowing ahead of each new...
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Tenacity (part 1)
Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. What do we begin in life and then let go of? What do we begin in life and refuse to let go of? Tenacity. Chi-Ning Chu. Amelia Earhart. Louis Pasteur. Maya Angelou. Episode Art: mountain climber silhouette photo, public domain, photographer unknown
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Confronting and Surviving the Upheavals with Your Sanity Intact
Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. The violence and upheavals are all around us and on the increase. You're a good person. You want to make a positive difference in the world. How do you figure out where to take hold of some kind of positive change process knowing that change will not come...
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Unpredictability, part 1
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+. Unpredictability is part of life. Ruling out the devastating options now, we have to work into how we live the reality that the unexpected is on its way--sometimes joyous unpredictability, sometimes frustrating unpredictability. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Composer Ella...
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Unpredictability, part 2
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Unpredictability. Life plans and unpredictability. The dreaded routines-ruts-rigormortis syndrome. Deepak Chopra. (Episode Art: "Big Wave - Fugaku Sanju Rokkei," Artist: Katsushika Hokusai, public domain)
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Beauty and My Well-being
Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Beauty is about much more than diverting or even inspiring; it is connected to our emotional health in more ways than one. (Episode art: "The Color of Joy," Artist: Michael Durst)
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The Four F's of Life Functioning
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Life is experienced in components; each component in a sense has its own plot. It may be great when all components function together at the same level, especially when we are at celebrative moments. But we can learn, and we need to learn, to live robustly when…
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Truth to Power
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ embracing. Saying who we are and what we're about, which is directly related to who we are. The risks and the reliefs! James Baldwin. Jerry Herman. Carl Sandburg. (Art: Uncertain origin, but collected from a public domain site.)
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Gross National Happiness
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Most of us are interested in the topic of happiness either because we experience it and want to celebrate it or because we long for more of it. It is probably necessary for most of us to learn how to be happy even when not everything in life is ideal. It is a…
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Personal Empowerment
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Personal empowerment is at the root of what makes it possible for us to achieve and to claim our fully deserved self-esteem. Efforts to diminish our power naturally diminish our sense of empowerment. The current efforts to keep certain citizens from voting,...
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“If People of Means Can't Manage to Fight Off Suicide Demons, How about the Rest of Us?”
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Suicide. Covid isolation and tragedies have made life harder and harder for more than a few who ultimately obeyed the suicide demons. Plan now never to let the demons convince you to do the same. (Episode Art: photo by Dan Meyer, used with permission)
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“If life gives you lemons, squeeze the hell out of those suckers!“
Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. If life gives you lemons, don’t try to make lemonade with the lemons that caused you pain or discomfort or confusion. Use the lemons for something else. Lemonade lemons will come along at another time. Episode Art: “Still Life with Lemons in a Wicker Basket,”…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Life coaching tidbits. Individuals, couples, and families often need support trying to find their way out of life events and experiences that have left them struggling if not immobilized with feeling such as unresolved anger, confusion, pain, grief, guilt, hopelessness. Dr. David Farmer wants to help. (original podcast image by Bill Westerhoff)
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David Albert Farmer
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Life coaching tidbits. Individuals, couples, and families often need support trying to find their way out of life events and experiences that have left them struggling if not immobilized with feeling such as unresolved anger, confusion, pain, grief, guilt, hopelessness. Dr. David Farmer wants to...
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Tranquil Journeys is created and hosted by David Albert Farmer.
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