1. Coach Michele’s Group Coaching May 24, 2011

2. 2Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 Today’s Topic Mastery – Accepting Love

3. 3Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 Why Does Accepting Love Matter? Accepting love means being open, not only to love, but all the good will and good fortune and wonderful opportunities the world has for you Accepting love, especially in full, is challenging for many people

4. 4Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 Initial Discussion What does accepting love mean to you? Why is accepting love important? What kinds of things might we see in our own lives, or in our clients lives, when we are not accepting love?

5. 5Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 What Does Accepting Love Bring Us? Love from others Love through ourselves Opportunities Access to higher wisdom Access to a feeling of security Abundance of all kinds An ability to grow instead of staying stuck

6. 6Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 Why is Accepting Love Challenging? We may feel we don’t deserve it We may feel scared of loss We may be scared of the opportunities that may come with it (fear of success) Busts up the comfortable paradigm of the ego

7. 7Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 Discussion Can we think of any examples in our own lives or in lives we have observed of an inability to accept love?

8. 8Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 Ways to Accept Love Focus on opportunities, assets, positive things in your life Interpret other’s actions always as love towards you, or a need for love (we often are looking for the insults!) Feel no need to defend yourself Constantly be in the habit of giving yourself love Forgive Treat yourself like you matter Treat others like they matter

9. 9Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 Discussion How else can we accept love? In what ways can we help our clients get better at accepting love? What are our long term prospects when we have trouble accepting love? What are some take aways for you?

10. 10Copyright (c) Michele Caron, 2011 Next Session Next Session…Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Success