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Setting Healthy Boundaries:

September 6, 2016 By Yolanda Gray Leave a Comment

Getting FREE FROM OPP and other unhealthy entanglements

One of the most difficult lessons I learned about life was that giving, giving and giving without taking care of yourself, will not only leave you burned out from trying to consistently do all that needs to be done and whacked-out from the anxiety of trying, you will get to a place in your life where you finally give up and give in. You might ask yourself like I did, “What happened? Where am I, Who am I, Is this it?” Will it ever be any different? Any better?

Dreams? What dreams, I was too wrapped up in taking care of everything and everyone; there was no time to dream. And this only led to self-pity, feeling victimized, resentful—unable to see a different way of life. [Read more…]

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Women who have it all—and then collapse!

August 8, 2016 By Yolanda Gray Leave a Comment

Remember that song for the Enjoli commercial that featured a beautiful woman in a business suit, waving around a frying pan as she sashayed through her world. Maybe not, it was years ago.

Check it out on YouTube Here

The words to the song went something like this: “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never ever let you forget you’re a man…because I’m a woman…” Then the narrator would say, “…for the 24-hour woman.” Uh-huh. I’m not kidding.

As a young woman all through the 70’s and early 80’s I bought into the messages of the day, the promises that we really could have it all. [Read more…]

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Getting Right Size

March 14, 2016 By Yolanda Gray Leave a Comment

On the Journey to RIGHT SIZE—Releasing Weight for Optimum Health
Hard to believe the first quarter of 2016 is over! If any of you made one of your intentions getting healthy—read losing weight—did you make that intention your reality?
It’s a struggle for sure! It seems like something—or someone—strikes with a plateful of cookies, chips, name your own delight, and then you’re off your game.
My most important intention this year was getting rid of some fat that was causing me problems at the doctor’s office. The “numbers” weren’t good, and the doc wanted to put me on some meds.
That’s when it all became real! Real scary, real depressing, real motivating. [Read more…]

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Affirming With Action

November 21, 2015 By Yolanda Gray Leave a Comment

overcome any obstacle sign to encourage action

Affirmations always require action. I heard this at a Weight Watcher’s meeting last week and it really struck me because I’ve never been a fan of affirmations. It seemed silly to just proclaim a positive thought in the conscious mind about something you wanted—material or intrinsic—and voila it happened. And, I tried them. A lot.

And guess what, yeah, they didn’t work. For years I affirmed that I would give up smoking and alcoholic drinking, affirming that God would just take it away. [Read more…]

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Giving Thanks: You Can’t Be Hateful When You’re Grateful

November 21, 2015 By Yolanda Gray Leave a Comment

giving thanks and becoming more focused sign for women

giving thanks and becoming more focused sign for women

These were the words I heard from my mentor when I would once again lapse into the condition known in recovery circles as R.I.D.—Restless, irritable, and discontented.

Symptoms of R.I.D. include the if onlys, yeah buts, and what ifs. What if I don’t get what I want in love and career? If only, I had chosen a different path in life. Yeah, but it isn’t my fault I overeat; I’m stressed!

I know the prolonged, self-centered sadness that came with hiding in the wine bottle night after night wishing for more, different. Alone. Always wanting what I didn’t have, comparing myself to others and coming up short. Morose and moody I would feed off the negative self-talk until I thought, what’s the use? Life cannot get any better, and it didn’t. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Personal Coaching, Personal growth, Spiritual growth

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Hi, thanks for being here.

Are you looking at your life with more years behind you than in front of you? Is retirement, divorce or other major life change causing you to question, “What’s next?”

God isn’t finished with you yet. No matter how old you are. If you’re not in heaven yet, then you have His promise of flourishing into your old age! (Psalm 92:12-14)

He has equipped us with irrevocable gifts and a calling that doesn’t end in our sage years. (Romans 11:29)

My life’s mission is to guide the Christian woman in mid-life and beyond who is wondering “what’s next for me” design a plan for living that will align her heart with God’s plan and discover meaning and fulfillment in her later years.

It is never too late to Take Back Your Life for the one God created you for!

“Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19
 
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Yolanda is a certified Professional Life Coach. She holds an MA in Human Relations. She is a skilled presenter, with over 20 years as a workshop facilitator, creator and leader of the Refresh Retreat, and speaker equipping, encouraging, and energizing women to know and fulfill God’s plan and purpose in their lives.
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