Jen Picicci
Certified Life Coach, MHS concentratio Health Education
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- Main Areas
- Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Thought Coaching, Health Education
- Career Focus
- Life coach and author
- Affiliation
- Martha Beck Certified Life Coach
Jen Picicci is a certified life coach, certified intuitive eating counselor, and holds a Master's degree in Health Education. She helps women give up dieting, overcome binge and emotional eating, and improve their body image. She also a new mom, seasoned cat petter, and love of nature and brownies. To learn more and get your free copy of her guide Never Diet Again, visit her website at [http://jenpicicci.com]. She can also be found on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/jenpiciccicoach], Twitter [http://twitter.com/JenPicicci], and Instagram [http://instagram.com/jenpicicci].
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An Athlete After All
Growing up I truly did not believe I had an athletic bone in my body. Participation in sports was not praised in my household, particularly by my father, who seemed to have a personal vendetta against any and all jocks, particularly those of the football-playing variety. The very unkind words coming from a fellow third grader (who shall remain nameless) during a game of gym class volleyball didn’t help either.
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Diet Tug-O-War
How many times have you gone on a diet? Is it too many times to count? Do you start a diet only to “fail” a day or week later, because you went back to eating things you actually liked? I will eventually blog more extensively on this topic, but for today I thought I’d start with a visualization to help you stop this war with yourself and your body. This is the problem: You’re fighting a war with yourself, with your biology, and with your (very hungry) inner animal.
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Taking Back Your Power
The simple version of my directions for taking your power back are: Start taking responsibility for making your own self be happy, and stop expecting other people to make you feel good! I figure I’d give a little more information that that, though. Starting with my own embarrassing past (um, and sometimes present). I have noticed that over the years I put lots of pressure on whomever my significant other of the moment is to make me feel good: pretty, sexy, loved, worthy, the best girlfriend of all time, prettier than that chick at the weenie roast, etc.
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Meditation Ideas
I have been finding meditation really helpful lately, much more so than in the past. I have tried so many different methods for meditating over the years I couldn’t even count, but I don’t think it’s the technique I’m using right now that’s working so well, but my dedication to it. Part of the problem with me sticking to a meditation routine was that life always seemed to get in the way.
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Your Are Responsible For You
Just a reminder: you are not responsible for other people's feelings. Or for fixing other people. Or for making sure they live their best lives. Or making them happy. Those things are their job. We are all responsible for ourselves, people! I suffer from this disease just like most (okay, all) of my coaching clients. Today I was inspired to write about this subject again because it's come up twice this week alone, with two different people I'm coaching. One of my clients is a man in his 30's who is somewhat recently divorced.
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Your Giant List
The following is a list of things I'd like to get done, preferably in the next 16 to 22 minutes: * Read the growing pile of extremely interesting-looking books that is currently residing on the floor next to my couch (including The Power of Now, A New Earth, The Conscious Heart, The Lightworker's Way, The Artist's Way, The Vein of Gold, and My Stroke of Insight) * Redesign my website to reflect new testimonials I've received, updated packages I'm offering, and lots of other things I can't think of right now * Come up with a new format for my blog that includes ALL of the thing
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Creating Your Own Job Description
Today I was coaching someone who wants to make a career change. Besides the advice of asking her to recall what she loved to do as a kid that made time fly, I told her to go to a place where she could imagine what having her dream career would feel like. Not what she'd be doing, specifically, just how good it would feel.
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Your "Everybody"
I was coaching a client yesterday who was feeling terribly off center due to some family circumstances that caused her to feel very guilty. She's got an ill mother, is starting a new career, and is trying to find balance. She felt like everybody thought she was a bad daughter for not immediately tending to her elderly mother's each and every demand, the moment it was asked of her, and the situation was distracting her from her work and life. When I started digging I realized she was listening to her "Everybody". You've got an Everybody, too.
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Better Safe Than Sorry?
This past spring I was futzing around in the kitchen while my love packed for a trip. It's always sort of stressful for him to pack; he never knows what to bring, he always is unsure of exactly what situation will come up while he's gone, and he always, without fail, packs way too much. A couple of years ago we went to Hawaii for three weeks and he packed enough clothing to start his own thrift store when we landed in Honolulu. Unfortunately, he didn't turn his excessive clothing into cash; he just lugged around way more than he needed.
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Spreading Peace
This morning I turned on the TV for some company while I exercised. The first story I heard was about the shooting of three police officers in Pittsburgh. This was pretty much a repeat of the day before, when I also turned on the TV for some company while I exercised and the first thing I heard about was the shooting of 13 people at a community center in upstate New York. This is why I don't watch the news much anymore. When I had to commute I listened to NPR constantly, both in the morning and on the way home in the evening.
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The Interview Game
Have you ever seen a book, a TV show, or an article about something that really, really caught your interest? Maybe you thought, "Gee, I'd love to be a barrel rider in the rodeo", or "I could be a world famous cupcake baker, too!".
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What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?
Back when I was a cog in the corporate machine I was evaluated by my supervisor yearly. I was asked to provide a list of goals that I wished to attain for the following year. These were quite different than my life goals (most of which, at that time, revolved around dark chocolate and getting more sleep); they had to be serious and reachable within the next year. After presenting my list to my director I was asked to narrow down my top five goals, ones that I wanted to achieve within six months.
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"Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact" - Norman Vincent Peale
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I am a certified life coach, certified intuitive eating counselor, have a Master's in Health Education, and am an author. I help women stop fighting with food and their bodies in order to find true health. For more visit my website.