If you have watched the Winter Olympics you have witnessed the guts it takes to race the Giant Slalom. This was Carol Courcy’s favorite race while skiing on the slopes of Colorado. Carol became practiced at turning the fear she felt in the starting gate into a profound feeling of pleasure and accomplishment at the bottom. In those moments, Carol got a taste of visiting the best parts of herself–a process that produced personal bests and deep satisfaction.
Carol’s hunger for more personal bests continued as she progressed in her life’s endeavors. In the field of coaching, she became a black belt – a Master Certified Coach clocking over 20 years of client time with students and companies from all over the world. But in spite of her outward success, Carol had become a habitual self-sacrificing resentful overachiever. She had lost the full spectrum of emotions that had guided her in her youthful joy-filled races to the finish line. Like Kudzu (a fast growing invasive vine), resentment had taken up residence in her emotional landscape and was in turn generating resignation, dissatisfaction and perpetual feelings of overwhelm. Though it was difficult for Carol to face this detrimental emotional pattern, when her “Aha!” moment arrived, she was out the gate, speeding down the hill of focused study and learning – teaching her body and her mind to choose differently.