I am coaching at Choices this week. It is one of my favourite things to do, but, it also means long days, fast sleeps. We begin as coaches at 8am and wrap up between 10 and 10:30 at night. Which means, sleep time is precious, blogging time limited.

At Choices, miracles happen throughout the room, throughout the day, throughout the five days of seminars. It is such a gift to see people walk into the room Wednesday, their defenses in place, their judgments thriving, only to leave on Sunday open, eyes filled with wonder, hearts and bodies filled with love.

It happens every time. Always.

The only difference from group to group is how it happens.

When I worked at the homeless shelter I discovered what I believe are “Universal Truths”.  Three of those truths are (the book I’m currently writing is Lessons in Love: Everything I know about being human I learned at a homeless shelter — there are 15 ‘truths’ in total) ) The first three are — We are all Connected. We all want a place to belong. Love is all there is to hold onto.

At Choices, those truths are illuminated through the stories people tell of their pain, their sorrow, their sadness and their search for meaning. Always, their search for meaning, for that place where better is possible. Sure, there are those who have good lives who come to the seminar because someone they love has asked them, but, as we delve into their human condition, they discover that they don’t want to settle for just ‘good enough’, they want and deserve the better that is possible when we live life on full throttle, hearts wide open to give and receive love freely.

When I went through Choices, my life was pretty good. I’d spent three years healing from a relationship that almost killed me and in my healing, believed my daughters were healing too. But, the residual affects of the pain they’d suffered as they watched their mother disappear before their eyes was still affecting our relationship, and their lives. Through our learning and stretching through our comfort zones, through forgiveness and love, our relationship has improved to where I believe I am the luckiest mother alive — I have two amazing daughters who love me as I am and who know, I love them, exactly the way they are.

I am standing ‘in Love’ this week. Coaching is the best way I know to give back to the world, to be on purpose, making a difference in the world by simply turning up and loving people where they’re at as they discovered the path to where they want to go.

It’s a great way to be alive.

May your week be filled with wonder. May you find Love in where ever you’re at.