Tanya Hale Life Coaching

I believe grace is one of the most Christlike ways that we can be loving. When we better understand Christ’s Grace for us, when we can accept that Grace into our own lives, and when we can then extend this Grace to others, everything seems to change. We feel more peace and compassion, we develop a stronger sense of self, and we feel more deeply connected to Divinity, ourselve...

Love is an amazing feeling. And it starts with our thoughts. Our ability to show up loving in our relationships begins with having loving thoughts about them. And many of us have gotten into a unfortunate habit of having frustrated, angry, and angsty thoughts about people in our lives. These thoughts eventually lead to behaviors that are less than loving, in fact, they can be...

In The Book of Mormon, Alma teaches that those who want to more fully follow Christ need to be willing to ‘mourn with those that mourn’. I believe many of us are good at seeing people who are mourning, our hearts are pricked and we desire to reach out, and often do, and then we get stuck. How do we create a safe space for the other person to mourn and struggle without being d...

‘Should’ is a sketchy word. Not only does it keep us in a place of limbo, somewhere between doing things and not doing things, it also creates a lot of shame around our lack of focus and momentum. And if there’s one thing we know about shame, it’s that it will never move us forward into a better version of ourselves. Shame always shuts us down and even creates a downward spir...

In our home we call it the ‘sh’ word, because should is a word we like to stay away from. It creates shame and annoyance from unmet expectations and it makes us incredibly judgmental of the person we are ‘shoulding’, including ourselves. ‘Should’ doesn’t inspire, it doesn’t love, it isn’t kind, and it doesn’t move us forward to our next best version. Learning to extract this ...