Dr. Diana Gardner Robinson
Ph.D., CASAC
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Find the balance to turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones! Expert
Dr. Diana Gardner Robinson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Balance as YOU want it, finding strengths, finding the positives.
- Career Focus
- Coach, author, speaker.
- Affiliation
- International Coach Federation, American Psychology Association, Mensa
Born and raised in England, Diana Gardner Robinson left school at sixteen and came to the United States in her twenties. She subsequently completed several graduate degrees in psychology and became a Certified Alcohol & Substance Abuse Counselor in New York State. While working in the addictions field she also took two years of training as a professional life coach and opened her coaching business in 1997. In addition to her coaching, she has been an addictions counselor and now teaches future addictions counselors. Her life experience has been wide, and this enables her to coach around issues of life balance and a wide range of stumbling blocks that, if we are not in balance, may trip us up or block our way.
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***Jumping to Conclusions
We are rushed, we are pressured, and we don't have time for the fine detail. Instead, too often we mentally leap to the bottom line, and in that leap we often fly past a few things that could lead us to more accurate understanding. We may read that a dietary product provides "Up to 4 hours hunger control," but how many of us remember that "up to four hours" includes one, two and three hours as well as four? Sometimes we even teach others on the basis of our wrong conclusion.
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***"The Secret" for Skeptics
Many readers may be fans of Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret," whether in book or in movie form. However, I have been reading howls of indignation from various columnists who, occasionally over-simplifying, feel that there are dangers and false promises contained in the concept of the Law of Attraction.
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***Ways to Turn Being Lonely into Being Comfortably Alone
If we think of being alone as being lonely, then fear of loneliness can drive us into the company of people who will not contribute at all to the quality of our lives. It is possible to turn loneliness into comfortable aloneness, so that when we socialize it is by choice, not because we are driven. Which of the following will work for you? 1. Enjoy the person you are. If you don't like yourself, then figure out why and start work on becoming a person you do enjoy. You can do it, and you'll be too busy to be lonely.
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***Transitions & Transformational Transitions
It is almost a cliché to talk about being in transition, particularly when one is a coach. Coaching people "in transition" is something that almost every new coach will mention as a prospective niche, and quite rightly, since transition is a time when it is particularly important to have an objective and encouraging sounding board as one casts off from one aspect of life and seeks to enter a safe port in another aspect of that life.
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***Recapitulation - bringing closure to endings, and clarity to beginnings
When something ends, no matter whether the ending is your choice or not, take the opportunity to recapitulate it before it fades from memory. There is learning to be done. Why recapitulate? We tend to believe that anything that is recent and vivid in our experience will stay vivid forever, but in fact it is likely that it will fade, often quite quickly. Life will take over, new memories will be created, and our recently developed insights and good intentions can easily be obliterated.
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***Flexibility and Authenticity – Allies or Enemies?
Is it possible to respond flexibly to changing circumstances and yet to remain authentically ourselves…or is it?
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***Staying Balanced amid Change
In current business literature, it is generally accepted that lack of willingness to accept change can be a handicap for people in all areas. Although change simply for the sake of change is not good, resistance to change in favor of the status quo is the reason for many individuals and companies being unable to keep up with the times. Openness to change is therefore seen as being good.
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***Relationship ABCs for those who are swift-thinking
"What I want most is for you not to be angry at me all the time." Those words were spoken by the husband of a client when she asked him what he wanted most from their apparently deteriorating relationship.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dr. Diana Gardner Robinson
"There are many secrets to happiness. One of them is learning to accept uncertainty with serenity. There are many things we will never know. Get used to it, and relax." Diana Gardner Robinson
"Discomfort can be the way the universe lets us know it is time for a change." Diana Gardner Robinson
"Before moving forward, be sure you know what it is that you are choosing to move away from - and therefore leaving behind. Diana Gardner Robinson
Contacting Dr. Diana Gardner Robinson
I'd prefer that you contact me via the Contact page on my website, http://www.TheBalancedCoach. If you prefer, my mailing address is:
2604 Elmwood Avenue #230
Rochester, NY 14620
U.S.A.
How to get started
To get a flavor of what I am about, please browse my website (http://www.TheBalancedCoach.com) where you will find a rapidly increasing body of blogs and other written work. To really know how I coach, use the Contact page to request a phone consultation that will cost you nothing except perhaps the phone call itself. For approximately 30 minutes you will receive coaching, with no sales pitch or pressure, on the topic of your choice. (If you are in the continental U.S.A. I can, if you wish, call you so that it costs you nothing.)