Sandra Dawes
Hons. BA, MBA
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Spiritual Growth and Relationships Expert
Sandra Dawes Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Dispute Resolution, Relationships, Spiritual Growth
- Career Focus
- Author, Life Coach
Sandra is a life coach specializing in Spiritual Growth and Relationships. After the passing of her father and circumstances that followed, she suffered from bouts of depression and sought the help of psychotherapists. Unwilling to seek medical assistance to deal with her chronic unhappiness, she was lead on a journey of self awareness and forgiveness that changed her life in deep and meaningful ways.
Through meditation, affirmations, yoga and mirror work, she has learned to achieve balance and self awareness that has helped her to discover her desire to help others to do the same. A student of A Course in Miracles, she works with clients to help them rediscover their connection with the Source of all Creation.
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What are you going to do differently this year?
I don’t know about you, but 2012 was quite an eventful year! Many things changed, but a lot remained the same. While I did accomplish a lot last year in terms of goals I had set at the beginning of the year, there are still a few things that I wanted to get done, that didn’t.
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Finding Your Voice
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where someone says or does something that you consider inappropriate and you fight the urge to say something? Or even worse, someone says something inappropriate or demeaning to you and you let it go, convincing yourself that they didn’t mean it or that he or she is “just having a bad day”? I’m not talking about being a spoiled sport; most of us intuitively know when someone’s being funny versus passive aggressive or just plain mean.
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Lessons from the Wise Dog (aka Lulu)
I’ve had my dog Lulu in my life for 6 years and she has taught me quite a bit about myself and life in general. Before adopting Lulu, I had fish and rabbits as pets. I had never imagined the joy of having a dog! Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t been all kisses and tummy rubs, but even in her naughty moments, Lulu continues to be one of the most effective teachers I have ever had. Lesson #1: Patience
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The Many Faces of Love
Love is a wonderful emotion that we all seek to experience. It comes in many forms; the love a parent has for a child, the love one feels for a romantic partner, or the love we have for friends and family. We have all said the words “I love you”, but have we really thought about what that means?
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Maintaining Momentum
For many, the beginning of a new year brings promises of new positive habits and the release of old negative ones. While we start the year off motivated to make big changes in our lives, we often lose steam before the end of February. But what about those that actually do stick to their resolutions, what is their secret to success?
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Taking things personally
The Four Agreements has given me a nice reminder about the importance of not taking things personally. It is something that I have gotten better about with time, but there is always room for improvement! The first time I was ever presented with the idea that peace of mind could come from not taking things personally was when I took a certificate course in dispute resolution years ago. In the book Getting to Yes, one of the recommended readings for the course, they speak about separating the person from the problem.
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Setting Boundaries
Creating boundaries – it sounds like something you would hear in a therapy session or read about in a self-help book, but what does it really mean? For me, it means being self-aware, able to know and express to others what is acceptable in my life. This has not been an easy feat for me by any means! For the longest time the word “no” was simply not in my vocabulary. I was a chronic people pleaser who had no idea who I was or what I wanted.
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Are you ready for extraordinary?
I’ve always considered my average. I never really thought that I was special in any particular way. Growing up, I think there were times I thought I was “less than”. I was a chubby, shy kid and school was all (I thought) I was good at. My parents couldn’t afford for me to wear the clothes or have the toys all the “cool” kids had and I was always yearning to fit in.
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The Danger in Assuming
We are all familiar with the saying “don’t assume because it makes an ass of you (u) and me”. While it may seem like an over-used cliché, I can’t help but reflect on the truth of this little quip. Haven’t we all gotten into trouble at one point or another for assuming things were one way when in fact that couldn’t have been further from the truth? It is no surprise that not assuming is one of the four agreements to finding peace and balanced outlined by Don Miguel Ruiz in his book The Four Agreements.
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How Bad Do You Want It?
We all have goals and aspirations for the future. If someone were to ask you, for example, where you see yourself in 20 years, you may pause for a bit, but soon you would be able to come up with a list. The problem for many of us is that we haven’t given much thought as to how we are going to achieve the future we dream about. Most of us plan for the future financially, investing in retirement plans or mutual funds, but is that all we need?
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Creating your legacy
I was doing a workshop at a youth shelter I volunteer at and the topic for the day was Values. One of the exercises was borrowed from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: write your obituary. The purpose of this exercise is to give you an opportunity to think about how you want to be remembered and to get you to think about whether or not the way you’re living your life today reflects that vision.
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Recognizing the problem
I’m doing my second round of A Course in Miracles and the lesson that really struck a chord with me lately was: “Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.” I immediately recognized the truth of this request. So often we think we know what the problem is, when clearly we don’t because our solutions don’t work!
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Sandra Dawes
I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be conce
ed with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be conce
ed with those qualities of the human spirit--such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Contacting Sandra Dawes
Email: sandra@embraceyourdestiny.ca
Skype: embraceyourdestiny
Mobile: (416) 543-8952
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