Holiday Gift Giving Offers
How will you express your love and gratitude for the special people
in your life this year? Consider giving a unique, thoughtful and
even life-changing gift with one of the packages below. Prices are
dramatically reduced and they would be perfect for a spouse, family
member, special friend, or yourself!
Gift Idea 1: Three hour-long Healing Touch sessions will help anyone
de-stress before or after the rush of the holidays. It’s a
$165 value for only $99!
Gift Idea 2: Give the gift of time with the Calendar Course! This
gift includes 2 Healing Touch OR 2 personal coaching sessions. This
$500 value is reduced to $175.
Gift Idea 3: Consider giving a gift of 6 personal coaching sessions
and 2 healing touch sessions. You can purchase the $1150 package
at the reduced cost of $595.
Gift Idea 4: Immersion Coaching is a powerful 48 hours experience
of individual coaching. One can start with a goal in mind or simply
see where the heart leads. With support, coaching, and Healing Touch,
this is the ultimate gift. Immersion Coaching costs $925.
Thank you for considering giving one of these unique gifts. Visit
the Heart, Mind, and Body pages to learn more about the services
in each package.
To purchase, select the gift you would like to give below. Reggie’s
Coaching Academy will contact you soon after you submit your purchase
and send a gift certificate and description of the services for
your loved one.
Reggie's Feature of the Month
I’m Exactly Where I Need to Be
by Carole “Braveheart” MacLean
I recently met a 101 year old woman named Sybil at my eye doctor’s
office and she reminded me so much of my Mom. She was sweet and
friendly and in her frail state she thought she was at the dentist.
She was saying to her nephew that she had forgotten to brush her
teeth after lunch. He was quietly reminding her that she was here
to have her eyes checked, not her teeth. She was exactly where she
needed to be.
Once again, I was reminded of one of the lessons from the GUTS
course: words from singer/songwriter Amy Steinberg, “I am
exactly where I need to be. I need to be exactly where I am.”
My Mom died last fall after a long illness. I miss her so much,
so when I see older woman like Sybil I love to engage in a conversation
with them. Sybil’s skin was wrinkled, yet she looked spry
in her hot pink pants and top. My Mom would never wear pink, she
didn’t like standing out in a crowd, but she always took great
care in making sure she looked nice and neat. And she was always
so polite and friendly, even to strangers. There is an innocence
about women that age. It’s as if the wisdom they’ve
accumulated gives them a sense of peace.
My Mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, then throat cancer,
and finally pneumonia. She spent a year undergoing chemo and radiation.
Then she lost her appetite and the ability to swallow easily. So,
at the age of 80, weighing only 88 pounds, it didn’t seem
at the time that my Mom was where she was supposed to be. And I
didn’t like where I was, taking care of her, watching her
forget who she was, where she was, and seeing her feeling weak and
demoralized.
But when I was able to put things into perspective and put my GUTS
training into action, I could see that both my Mom and I were exactly
where we needed to be. It was all that I learned through the GUTS
course that got me through the last year of my Mom’s life.
Once I accepted where we were and that I couldn’t change that,
I realized that slowing down was going to be imperative for me.
I needed to be available for my Mom and Dad when they needed me
so much. My Dad and I were Mom’s primary care givers, so I
scaled back my business and started saying no to things months before
my Mom’s death. I also realized that there were certain things
I wanted to say to Mom before she was gone.
First I moved my folks from Ohio out to California where I live
so I could spend as much time with them as possible. Then I did
all that I could to keep Mom in her apartment with Dad while she
was ill. I had to let go of many of the expectations that I had
previously created for myself. Nothing mattered more to me than
spending time with Mom and Dad and my family during those last 12
months. I had to communicate to friends and clients that my priorities
had changed, that right then, my family was my number one priority.
And to do that, I had to put ME first. I learned from Giving Unbelievable
aTtention to Self (GUTS) that I had to take care of myself in order
to be able to be there for my Mom. I exercised, lost weight, and
wrote in my journal throughout it all. I meditated. I took bubble
baths. I trusted my gut instincts. I took time with my husband and
my daughter. I listened better and I loved deeper. I paid attention
to details.
For Mother’s Day, four months before Mom died, I presented
her with a letter and eight smoothly polished stones. Each stone
had one of the gifts she had given me in life inscribed on them
such as love, faith, and grace. I read her my letter explaining
each gift and placed the stones one by one into her frail hands.
I made her wear a crown while I did it and I lit a candle. I’m
not sure what she really thought of it or if she even remembered
the next day why those precious stones were laid out on her night
stand, but I knew I had fulfilled my wish to tell my Mom how much
she meant to me and why. I had been able to reach deep down into
my heart. I was able to let go of what my head was saying (she’ll
think this is silly) and I showed Mom just how much she was loved.
I accepted that I was exactly WHERE I NEEDED TO BE.
For four more months I was able to be with Mom and Dad in the present,
enjoying what time we had left, and showing up for them when they
needed me.
And then one last time on the day Mom died, my work through GUTS
gave me the biggest gift of all. My Mom was suffering at this point
from pneumonia and slightly hallucinating from lack of oxygen. At
least that is the scientific or medical reason for what she was
doing. I’d like to believe that what she was really doing
was getting ready to let go. She kept looking up from her bed and
reaching for the window. She was agitated yet calm. She wanted to
get out of bed, but she didn’t have the energy. Once again
I reached into my heart, let go of the gremlins in my head denying
that she was dying, and I lay down on the bed beside Mom. I took
her hand and I looked up at the window and asked her what she saw.
She just looked at me with the most caring and loving eyes, like
she knew the answer wasn’t necessary, words weren’t
necessary, only the touch of my hand and the love in my eyes mattered
right then. This was one more gift I will hold in my heart forever.
One more time when I knew I was exactly where I needed to be and
I needed to be exactly where I was.
My Mom died within the hour. She died in her apartment, in her
own bed, with Dad and me at her side. She is finally at peace with
her maker. She is whole again. She is exactly where she needs to
be. She is with me every day in the eyes of my 14 year old daughter
who is named after my Mom, in the sunshine that warms my face, and
in the older women I have the chance to meet. She is where she needs
to be. I am where I need to be. I need to be exactly where I am.
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