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Navigating Resistance: A Path to Inner Peace and Greater Productivity
Coaching Victoria Silas Coaching Victoria Silas

Navigating Resistance: A Path to Inner Peace and Greater Productivity

The Oxford Dictionary defines resistance as the refusal to accept or comply with something. In Star Trek, when the Borg prepares to assimilate a ship it declares, “Resistance is futile”, meaning the ship has no chance of escape.

In coaching, resistance has a different connotation and is readily escapable, but takes some mental effort. It’s not an attack from without, it’s an attack from within when your mind refuses to accept the reality of the situation that you’re in.

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Honoring Grief's Season: A Guide to Embracing and Releasing Loss
Wellness Victoria Silas Wellness Victoria Silas

Honoring Grief's Season: A Guide to Embracing and Releasing Loss

This year I have become reacquainted with grief. Grief is not anyone’s idea of a desired companion. And yet, to be alive, to be in the world, to love, is to inevitably invite grief into your life. Grief is an interesting emotion. Unlike some which blaze and extinguish, grief rolls in and out like the tide, catching you off guard when you take your eye off it, it can slap you to the shore when a rogue wave hits you, unsuspecting and unprepared.

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