Category Archives: introverts empowered!

Square peg and proud! Who needs fixing if you aren’t broken?

Posted on May 5, 2015 by

A few years ago I was working with an introverted coaching client who came to our first session with a list of a dozen goals and they all had an underlying flavor of “I’m not measuring up!”  Working together I … Continue reading →

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Follow your own GPS: Step to the music you hear

Posted on April 22, 2015 by

At a silent meditation retreat one day someone’s phone broke the silence announcing “navigation failure”.  I laughed.  This captured my daily experience. As introverts we are challenged by the culture’s default navigation system that goes a hundred miles an hour … Continue reading →

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What to do when you fall on your face

Posted on March 24, 2015 by

This past week-end I was in sunny California where I spent 10 hours a day for 3 days in a packed conference room with 600 people learning additional tools for mastery in my trade as a coach.  Of course as … Continue reading →

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Blog’s world wide reach! Let’s hear it for a global introvert uprising!

Posted on February 20, 2015 by

Dear readers – Today I was tooling around my stats page looking at a summary of 2014 and learned that the thousands of readers of the Intelligent Introvert blog came from 58 different countries!!!!!!!!!!!  From Jamaica to Libya and everything … Continue reading →

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Lightness of being as we strip away false notions

Posted on December 29, 2014 by

As I was browsing through the few remaining items in a Takoma Park store Now and Then, which is closing it’s doors, my eyes landed on the title of a book “I will not die an unlived life: Reclaiming purpose … Continue reading →

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Empowered during the holidays

Posted on December 19, 2014 by

This week’s posts have playfully touched on the topic of overwhelm during chaos.  What feels like chaos for us may not feel that way to others!  My partner’s response was an example of how different introverts and extroverts may experience … Continue reading →

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Impulsive, speed shopping or just being an introvert?

Posted on December 11, 2014 by

I have a style of shopping often characterized as impulsive. I too interpreted my style that way for years.  Then I met another introvert with a similar style and started to re-evaluate this assessment. First let me say that we both “hate” to shop. … Continue reading →

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