Author Archives: Paula Engels

Last year I was working with a teenaged boy diagnosed with NLD (Non-verbal Learning Disorder). He came for coaching because he was unmotivated, and having trouble in some subjects at school, in organized sports, and making positive social connections. (And … Continue reading →

What if we all knew instinctively, intrinsically, irrevocably… that we don’t have to be perfect to be perfectly fine? If only we never stopped being the unselfconsciously evolving works in progress that we are when we are babies… until embarrassment, … Continue reading →

Becoming a grandmother has been the most wonderful, exciting, exhilarating, all encompassing … (not to mention exhausting) experience I have had since… becoming a mother. As I held that beautiful little bundle in the hospital just after she was born, … Continue reading →