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What Current and Former Clients Say About Working with Barb Elgin/BE A Success

Currently, Barb Elgin/BE A Success offers the following three, individual coaching packages.    All packages include any combination of telephone, email and instant messaging YOU desire, making our work together easily accessible and flexible for you and your schedule. 

If you can’t find a package that meets your needs, please contact Barb Elgin to arrange a plan that will work for you.

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The ‘CEO’ Coaching Plan – for the person wanting to work on multiple areas, who wants to make rapid progress, whose life is complex or stressful or who simply values the highest level of personal and professional support.

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The ‘WIZARD’ Coaching Plan – for clients desiring focus on a specific problem, goal, opportunity or challenge in weekly sessions. 

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The ‘GUARDIAN ANGEL’ Coaching Plan - ‘Just-in-Time’ support (laser coaching) on a very specific problem or project; low commitment opportunity to try out coaching, maintenance session/booster for someone who is a previous client OR time management saver for the very busy person!

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Customized plans are available upon request.

Payment must be made and client registration materials completed, in advance.

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Well hello!  How have you been?  It’s been busy as usual over here at Coach Sappho.

• Looking on the bright side this week I’d like to congratulate the State of Maine, who became the 16th state to add sexual orientation and gender identity to a Maine law that bars discrimination in employment, housing, credit, public accomodations and education.
• How’s your love life?  If you’ve ever been in a relationship over a year, you know things tend to “cool down.”  But, is it inevitable that they “cool off?”  I’ll never forget what the psychology professor I took a Human Sexuality class with in college said:

Did you know that your biggest sex organ is between your ears!?!

Yes, indeed, is she nuts, now, just what did she mean?  That imagination, mystery and creativity are sexy turn ons!  So, don’t let your brain cells go limp when it comes to sex and intimacy, even if you are not in a relationship (catch my drift!). 

Hate to break it to you but love isn’t all wine, roses and, for some of us, chocolates!  We have to add a dash of brain food in there too once in awhile.

Make time for sensuality in your life, you deserve it (and it’s no doubt great for stress reduction!).  Stimulate your dendrites and they will give you a tingle!

And, if you’re looking for suggestions to jump start your brain, here’s a couple of my favorite books/tapes on the subject:

Hot Monogamy by Pat Love, EdD (book) (audiotape) – excellent ideas delivered in an often humorous manner.  I just love Pat Love!!!

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book by Felice Newman – full of education and information

Or, here’s a simple suggestion that goes the distance:  each of you should make a list of activities you’ve gotten away from doing that you enjoy or that you’ve fantasized about or want to try.  Then, be sure to do one of those activities at least once a week, alternating back and forth.  And, again, if you are a single slinger, make a list and treat yourself.

Champions keep playing until they get it right! – Billie Jean King

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, spring has sprung!  While it may not feel that way yet (hey – it’s even been dark, chilly and rainy here in Central Florida the past couple of days!), you can bet warm, sunny days are just around the bend.

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT COACH SAPPHO:  Look what Coach Sappho has been cookin’ up for you, to keep you warm and toasty till lady spring pokes her head out:

Famous author, Angela Bonavoglia is Coach Sappho’s “Uncommon Courage” guest for March 2005.

Thursday, 3/31/05, from 7-8pm EST

Coach Sappho’s ‘Creating a Life I Love’ Club’s “Uncommon Courage” guest for March 2005 is a fabulous ally by the name of Ms. Angela Bonavoglia.  I met Ms. Bonavoglia about 18 months ago while interviewing Kathy Itzin, the catholic religious education instructor from Minnesota who had a lifetime achievement award taken back by her city’s bishop when he found out she was a lesbian.

Angela Bonavoglia has just published her latest book, Good Catholic Girls:  How Women are Leading the Fight to Change the Church.  Angela Bonavoglia is an award-winning journalist and author who covers social, health, religious and women�s issues. A previous book on abortion, The Choices We Made, was featured on Oprah. Her feature articles, investigative reports, op-eds, personal essays, and profiles have appeared in Ms. (longtime contributing editor), the Chicago Tribune, Redbook, Mirabella, Cosmopolitan, Newsday, and The New York Times, among other publications.

Angela’s article, “The Church�s Tug of War,” about women as an invisible force for reform in the Roman Catholic Church, was the lead article in The Nation in the wake of the clergy sex abuse scandals of 2002.

I can’t wait to talk with her about how and why she chose the career path she is on today.  Aren’t you curious?  I hope you will join her and I via the teleconference bridge on March 31st for an exciting discussion.  If you have specific questions you’d like me to ask her during the interview, email me so I can prepare.

Click here to read more about Ms. Bonavoglia and her latest book.  Or visit her website: http://www.goodcatholicgirls.com.

Hello friend – I wanted to drop a quick post and let you know that I have arrived, safe and sound, in my new digs in Central Florida! I am crazy busy, as you can imagine, unpacking and settling in. Wow – life is fantastic!

My dad and I had quite an eventful journey. Most dramatic, unfortunately, was the loss of my 13 year old beloved chihuahua/toy fox terrier mix “Yoda”, who did not make it to her new home.

Sadly, Ms. Yoda (or ‘Yo-ie!’ as I and my recently separated partner, affectionately called her) passed away suddenly, late yesterday morning near “Mile 84″ in Georgia, as dad and I drove into Florida. Apparently, she was suffering from congestive heart failure and the stress and excitement of our big move hastened her demise. I am grieving her loss, of course, but am grateful she did not suffer long. I will tell you this: she did enjoy our ride together, until she became ill. I have such fond memories of her lying on the passenger seat next to me, tongue out and eyes squinting in the sun (I swear she was smiling, she looked so happy and content), getting up on the car door to check out the highway traffic and sitting on my lap as I drove, her little, bony white paws perched on my left arm as I propped the right arm on the left so that I could drive.

I can’t overlook the raw symbolism of this event: the pain of growth, the process of surrender/letting go and the excitement and mystery invoked by embracing the fresh and often unknown. As my dad and I walked out of the grocery store last night I told him that I’ve decided ‘no more big changes’ in the near future, so as to give myself time to acclimate to the many I’ve just begun! Of course, who knows what lies around the next corner and whatever that is, I will surrender and rise to meet that challenge as well!

Loving life (are you?),

Barb Elgin
barb@barbelgin.com
NEW PHONE NUMBER: (352) 347-3577