Pay attention to what you do when someone abandons you; disappoints you; leaves you or breaks-up with you. Do you get into stories of attack or blame? Do you justify their behavior by telling yourself, “They’re just messed up,” or “It’s bad timing,” or “She has a lot...

  It’s a bit of a surprise that I ended up being a coach and not a psychotherapist.  After all, my Dad is a Psychiatrist, my mother was a therapist and my step-mother was a psychotherapist. As you can imagine, I grew up steeped in conversation that wasn’t about...