Maria - Core Four Health Coaching

It's TGIT! Or should we call it YES DAY?

When my sons were toddlers, I developed the concept of "Yes Day" to assist me in my parenting challenges. Every time they asked me a difficult question, (for example, "Can we have ice cream for lunch?", "Is it okay to use our crayons to decorate the walls?', "Can we wear our pajamas to church?"), I always had the same answer "Yes, of course!" even though the real answer to those and their many other outlandish requests was "NO, absolutely not!" Rather than repeatedly saying no to my two little darlings, I opted to instead empower them with my heartfelt and optimistic "YES!" Read More

Maria - Core Four Health Coaching

"PANDAmonium and Remembering to Water the Bamboo"

I really enjoy watching the Sunday Morning News Programs. It is not something I have always been able to do because for many years I have volunteered as a Sunday School Teacher and Mass Minister. The major networks' Sunday morning programs break down the highlights of the past week's happenings, with a focus on the political world. Occasionally they feature a human interest story and this past Sunday, one of those programs showed a video of several Pandas frolicking together at a zoo. It was pure "pandamonium!" Read More

Maria - Core Four Health Coaching

Progress Not Perfection

This past week I launched my new business. I have been dreaming about this for quite awhile, but more notably, I have obsessed over it for what seems like forever. Part of launching my health coaching business included creating a website. Read More