Dr. Jeanine Austin

Did You Know That Business Coaching is Tax Deductible???

Did you know that coaching undertaken to enhance your business is tax deductible? In the U.S., all continuing education undertaken to maintain and improve business and professional skills are tax deductible. (Treas.Reg. 1-162-5, Coughlin vs. Commissioner 203F 2d 307)

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Check out my article "Self Actualizing in the New Year"
in Mystic Pop Magazine

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Upcoming Groups for Women:

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A Course in Miracles Study

Support for 20-somethings!

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Divine Updates:

Coaches are utilizing The Alma Answers! 21 Sacred Soul Steps to Divine Solutions as curriculum for their client groups. The groups are held over a 21 week period utilizing one sacred step per week. Each day includes homework, extra credit work if desired and a bibliography. Clients buy the Alma Answers from Dr. Jeanine at the $99.00 rate and coaches charge their regular group or workshop fees.

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Send Caiti Brown to Arizona!!

Caiti Brown is a delightful 17 year old girl who has been triumphantly walking with cancer for nearly 4 years. Diagnosed with osteosarcoma in 2004, she continues treatment for a relapse of disease to her lungs which occurred in the summer of 2006. Caiti Brown has had four major surgeries. Two of them were to repair and replace her damaged femur, knee, and a bit of her tibia. The other two were thoracic surgeries removing a lobe of her left lung and disease from her right lung. She has been disappointed by many strong and sound chemotherapy protocols. Her oncologist has and continues to seek every possible option. Unfortunately, Caiti Brown has been disappointed by a great number of conventional treatments.
In light of this, the family is taking a huge leap of faith and has made the monumental decision to take her to Envita Medical Center in Scottsdale, AZ. This facility will use the integrative method of natural therapies to super charge her immune system along with chemotherapy. These therapies and the cost to stay in Arizona are not covered by the family's health insurance. Therefore the family will incur expenses exceeding $100,000.00. We are working toward a goal to raise as much of that as possible. Any donation that you can make would be met with great gratitude.

Checks can be made to the Caiti Brown Trip for Life and mailed to PO Box 8, Toms River, NJ 08753.

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Take a Break Before You Really Need One! By Dr. Jeanine
copyright Feb. 1, 2008

Last week I had a follow-up mammogram. My initial mammogram turned up a trouble area the doctor wanted rechecked immediately. As fate would have it, I also had pneumonia that I had just started treatment for two days prior. After getting up early and driving my boys to their respective schools, I went in for my second mammogram.

In the midst of performing physical postures that a Cirque du Soleil contortionist would envy, I found my feverish self clinging to the mammogram machine for support. Just at that moment I caught a glimpse of my sick and disheveled self in the mirror. Clearly, I needed to rest. My nose was red, my hair needed a comb through and I looked as pale as a ghost.

I decided to take the rest of the afternoon off. I went home, made a pot of Earl Grey tea, took a steamy shower and watched some taped shows. These small acts of retreat did me a world of good.

Like many of you reading this, it isn't always easy for me to clear my calendar. I have children who keep me very busy; I work about 50 or so hours each week as well as having a myriad of other responsibilities and commitments. There is no question that for most of us reordering our lives to take a break can take some creativity and some dogged determination. In order to live our best life we often need to be deliberate and proactive to make time for ourselves.

Many of us may feel that our worth comes from doing and going all of the time. We may be addicted to busyness. It is probably true that many of us are avoiding really feeling our feelings and our lives by overworking. Maybe we are trying to prove our worth by achieving in order to outrun feelings of inadequacy. Just "being" may feel uncomfortable or even foreign to us.

By mid-life we often have had to learn the hard way that it is false economy to not take time for ourselves. Some of taking care of ourselves may take the form of meal planning, so that we don't end up eating a diet of junk food that we happen upon when we are hungry. Maybe we will take time out for a massage. We may choose to take the time to meditate and pray the first moments after we awaken. We may choose life coaching to help us be supported as we traverse down life's path. If we don't take frequent and consistent breaks away from the demands of life we invite the chance of sailing way off course into an unintended life. We might even find ourselves living someone else's life. Gasp!

Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living". If we never stop and disengage with our routine, we run the risk of our life being one run on automatic pilot rather than passion. By virtue of the fact that we are human beings and not robots, we need to pull back, reexamine and integrate the changes and nuances of our lives.

I had a glaring reminder at the mammogram center about how important it is to have some down time. It is true that at times "soldiering on" has its place in our lives. Sometimes we have to buck-up and push through. As a way of life, however, pushing ourselves without ceasing has a huge price tag. When we find ourselves running on empty, perhaps emotionally and/or spiritually bankrupted, we will simply burn out. The joie de vive isn't something that should be foreign to us. Joy is our natural state. But when we are burned out, passion and joy can feel like unfamiliar abstractions.

We don't need to get pneumonia or crash and burn to earn a time out. We are all deserving. We deserve unstructured and self nurturing time just because we are human beings. If we take the time to feed and fortify ourselves, perhaps seemingly paradoxically, we will come out ahead. Most of us would probably agree that the adage "Life is a marathon not a sprint" is the unarguable truth.

As it turned out, my second mammogram was fine. Because of the process I was reminded about the gift of life itself and the importance of self care. If you are a woman who feels that your life's journey towards self care and self love could be supported through life coaching, please contact me for a free consultation. In any case, please remember to take a break before you really need one.

Jeanine Austin, Ph.D.
Doctor of Life Coaching
~Simply Divine Solutions~
Personal Coaching for Women Worldwide
Women Transitioning, Transforming and Transcending Around the World
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Dr. Jeanine Interviews Life Coach: Kute Blackson, Un-Coach Extraordinaire
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Kute Blackson

JA: If we are hoping to actualize our lives in 2008, how might we go about it?

KB: I think it is important to first take time to be still and go within. This way we can feel what it is that is really seeking to happen in our lives in 2008. This allows us to go beyond our mind. To go beyond the past, and really feel the impulse of Life, that creative intelligence that is the Source of our lives. Then we can go beyond the old paradigm of "What do I want?" but rather from this place we can ask, and feel into, "What wants me?" Then it is not even "we" that needs to actualize, but Life itself, and all the unlimitedness of that, that gets to manifest itself through us and in our lives. Life actualizes itself through us. Then we access the zone of the magical. We access the zone of miracles.

So be still. Listen. Then trust what those deeper impulses are that we feel. They are life's way of whispering and guiding us. Then we must act with faith. When we take action, it is also important to know that if we have been given a desire or dream for 2008, inherent in that dream are also the seeds for it's fulfillment. That those dreams we have in our hearts, are also Life's seeking to make itself manifest. So we must act with the trust that Life knows how to bring about the fulfillment of our true desires. Then when we act our responsibility is to simply do everything we can do without attachment. Just do our best, and enjoy the journey your dreams take you on.


JA: In terms of a healing collective consciousness experience, where might the spiritually focused place attention, intention and energy?

KB: I would say that placing one's attention on love, and practicing true loving. At the end of the day this is what we all want, and are seeking for. When we are on our death bed, this is what is important. Great teaching, theories and scriptures are great, but to really heal the planet, we must dare to start loving. To have the guts to start loving ourselves, and each other with all our attention, intention, and energy. I believe that if we all did this a little bit the world would be a radically different place. As you know: what you focus on expands, and in this life experience, we end up focusing on so many other things that aren't really meaningful or truly important. If we put that much energy into loving, the world would be even more amazing than it already is.


JA: What part does compassion play in the healing of our lives and our planet?

KB: Compassion is a really beautiful quality. I like to say that real healing is the application of love or compassion to the parts of us that are hurting. We all have those places inside ourselves that might be in pain, and end up reacting to life, or various situations. We can often be harsh with these parts of ourselves that we don't like, or want to change. We can often judge these parts, or beat ourselves up. But judging ourselves simply reinforces the parts of ourselves that we judge, or the pattern that we are trying to change.

So being able to hold the various aspects of ourselves compassionately. Provides some space, and in that space healing can occur. The parts of ourselves that we don't like need the most love and compassion and are just a cry for attention- our own love and attention. This is why I say that the issue is not the issue but the real issue is how we "be" with ourselves as we go through the issue. This is the issue. Then more compassionate we can be with ourselves, the more we will heal. Then the more compassionate we can be with others. This ends up being reflected in the world because the world is a mirror of the state of consciousness of the collective.

 

JA: How might we collectively quicken the healing of our planet?

KB: The best way to heal the planet is to simply heal ourselves. The planet is simply a mirror of our selves. It is a physical manifestation of the state of the collective consciousness of the masses. To just focus on the planet without looking inside, and healing those parts of ourselves that are holding on, in pain, unresolved, full of anger, is just an outside in approach and won't work as a sustainable solution. The planet is ourselves, it is an extension of our consciousness.

We can clean up the pollution in the air but if there is pollution in our hearts. Then the planet will still be affected. If we focus on global warming but don't deal with the overheating anger in our emotional body. Then the planet will still be affected. If we curb terrorism, but keep terrorizing ourselves, inside of our own minds with harsh judgments. Then the planet will still be affected.

We must start from the inside out. And this is what each person can do. One step at a time. One person at a time. One day at a time. Look at what does the planet mirror about myself? As Gandhi said "Be the change you want to see in the world."


JA: Do you have a prayer or intention that you are focusing on in 2008 that might inspire our readers?

KB: My prayer/intention is to simply open to the highest intention/prayer of Life it self. To be available to the highest expression of what is seeking to happen through me. To be a vehicle of service in the highest manner. Life itself has an intelligence beyond the mind. And I really believe that it knows how to fulfill itself through us in exactly the manner that is needed for our lives. I find that when I remain truly open to the moment, and Life's flow, then everything that unfolds is perfect and in total alignment. I like to say that, "Before we were born, life was and once we are gone life will be."

So when we open to Life itself, what often shows up ends up more than we could have planned, or strategized with our minds alone. Then we allow the rain of Grace to flow in our lives, and then magic happens.


JA: How might our readers get in touch with you if they are interested in your workshops, trips or coaching?

KB: They are free to check out my website: ww.kuteblackson.net.
Or contact my office at -(818)990-0231.

 

JA: Thank you so much Kute for taking the time to share with us today!

 

More about Kute Blackson:

Kute's own background and experience lays out the blueprint for his approach to liberating others. His multicultural upbringing as the child of a Japanese mother and Ghanaian father, raised in London, now living in Los Angeles, spans all continents and defies stereotype.

He's also personally lived out the reality of challenging the expectations of others. The son of a revered spiritual healer himself, Kute was addressing his father's congregations, in more than 300 churches, by the age of eight. At the age of 14, he was ordained into his father's ministry and groomed to carry on the family's spiritual legacy. But his heart-truth drew him to another path: to come to Los Angeles. Here, he became proficient in a number of modalities including NLP, and today offers participants his own uniquely powerful process for transforming their lives from the inside-out.

Kute creates a dynamic experiential learning environment where participants are moved to stretch far beyond their comfort-zone. Whatever the setting, the tangible results of "un-coaching" by Kute Blackson range from healthier personal relationships to a healthier bottom line for business.

Kute's commitment is to help people live what he calls the "200% life, which requires that you go into yourself 100%. This willingness allows you to reemerge with crystalline clarity, and give your gifts 100% in return, to your loved ones, to your work, to your life. Kute calls this "Living your WOW".