Getting to Know Catharine

Reader Question: How to “Become More Creative”

This life coaching blog post was prompted by an insightful reader question last month: “I noticed that one of your suggestions is to be creative. This raises the question for me, what would this look like for me? I wonder how many people get ‘stuck’...
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On Listening to the Radio … and Being in the Driver’s Seat (Of Your Life)

At the beginning of the new year, I stopped listening to the radio in my car. This may seem a strange new year’s shift to make, but hear me out. Suddenly I have become more aware of and engaged with my surroundings. I am more present while driving....
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Life Coaching: 5 Life Lessons from France

Spending the past two weeks in Paris with some of my grandchildren gave me the opportunity to observe and enjoy the playfulness, rich lifestyle and pure pleasure the French take in their daily lives. It is a culture devoted to beauty, tradition and pleasure....
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Crossing Borders with Confidence: My Story

When I was twenty-one years old I left the small Connecticut town where I had lived my whole life and moved to a city in South America with my brand new husband. It was his career that took us there and I could not have been more excited! Although I...
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Words for a New Season from Life Coach Catharine Ecton

Here is an acrostic I put together for this wonderful new season we are embarking upon right now .. SPRING! I hope it will inspire you to live a life full of these concepts. S – simplicity, self-awareness, surprise, stretch, strength, success P...
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