Posts by Catherine Collautt, Ph.D.
Self-Help and the Unwritten Code of Absurdly Embarrassing Book Covers
This is my favorite example, Healing Feelings…From Your Heart. I mean seriously, if you tried, could you come up with a more cliché cover (and by that I mean the title, the book jacket – the whole package) in which to wrap this nugget of self-improvement wisdom? Let me be clear: I actually really like…
Read MoreWelcome.
Welcome to ‘my blog’. It’s remarkable that despite being a writer, or maybe precisely because I am ‘a writer’, in the more traditional sense (of essays, articles and books), I was really averse to adding a ‘blog’ to my website. But I did want to give readers broader access to myself, so I did what…
Read MoreThe Oracle Answers: Finding the Gold. Starting Now.
FIRST PROVOCATION: List 8 reasons why you want what you want. Why do you want the new job? the relationship? the sweater? Is it because you want to earn more? because you want to start a family? because it looks so good on you? Or, is it because you hate your boss? because being on…
Read MoreThe Oracle Answers: Thinking in Freedom. Aligning with Self.
FIRST PROVOCATION: If you knew you couldn’t fail, and you had an endless supply of money, what would you be, do, and/or have?’ You know the expression ‘to think outside the box’? Normally ‘the box’ refers to convention, and the expression means to think outside of convention, or to think unconventionally. Well here, the box…
Read MoreThe Oracle Answers: Face the Fear. Syphon its Power.
FIRST PROVOCATION: What is the WORST thing that could happen if you made the wrong choice (or failed, or didn’t get what you wanted)? (Choose the most appropriate phrasing for your desire, and the way you articulated it.) If you’ve ever had a session with me, you know that I ask this question a lot:…
Read MoreThe Oracle Answers: Believe with Certainty. Prepare For Your Good.
FIRST PROVOCATION: What does getting what you want actually look like? List 8 things you would be, do, and/or have as a result. Often when we know what we want we fixate on the getting of it rather than the having of it. The problem with this is that we want to capitalize on the…
Read MoreIntroducing: The Manifesting Friendly
Introducing: The Magic Eight Ball Inspired Origami Fortune Teller Manifesting Friendly. Watch out Hammacher Schlemmer, if I add ‘the world’s best’ or ‘first’ to the title – (both of which are true) – I might just have out ridiculous-titled you. (Which of course is really, really hard to do. Respect.) ‘The Magic Eight Ball Inspired…
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