Posts by James Nolan
Posted April 3rd, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
Reflections on Identifying Oneself as “Fierce” Suddenly all of these people want to be "Fierce." My experience has been that powerful and fierce people do not need to announce to others that they are powerful and fierce. Divine Warrior Gods/Goddesses (if there truly are such things—not at all sure about that)…
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Posted March 3rd, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
A few days ago, I had a consultation with Dr. Janet Scarborough Civitelli, a member of this group. She is a Coach who knows a LOT about writing, books, blogs, publishing, and how all of that can serve my coaching practice. That is of course is why I hired her. …
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Posted February 25th, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
The Principle of Attraction, by Jim Nolan
I want to talk about what I have come to call the Principle of Attraction. (many talk about the “Law of Attraction”, but I prefer the term “Principle”, for reasons that may become clearer as you follow my blogs…)
This Principle…
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Posted February 10th, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
LOL! That's funny...I am so put off anymore by the guru thing, seriously. Anyway, Cleveland doesn't make Gurus. That is more a Santa Fe thing... OK, so I have pointed you in the direction of the history of the Law of Attraction, and offered some understanding…
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Posted February 10th, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
“What DOES this Law of Attraction stuff mean?”
I think that what gets called the Law of Attraction is not a Law at all, but a Principle, a Force, a Power, a Tool, a Trend, a Momentum, an Energy we can use for creating more experiences in our lives that we…
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Posted February 10th, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
Part 1 of 3: History of the Principle/Law of Attraction--Stuff You May Not Know...
What does it mean that I work with the Law of Attraction in my Therapy & Coaching practice? More and more people find me because I do, and more and more people ask me about it when…
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Posted January 31st, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
Lens of an Elder As I age and quieten, I see less and less need or desire for the filters provided (usually, but by no means always with good intent) by -isms, tribes, and thinkers that have come before me. Indeed, I increasingly see them as getting in the way of my having my…
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Posted January 29th, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
You have heard it a million times, right? 93% of all communication is non-verbal! Amazing, right?
Except it is total baloney.
Two little crummy studies, the results combined, with an N of like Nothing To Speak Of, unbelievably limited independent and dependent variables, and staggeringly little generalizability are…
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Posted January 27th, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
The Problem with Alpha Gone South, Masquerading as Leadership “Alpha” is not a skill set, or a talent, or even a strength. It is an attitude, or a belief, that one is, should be, or worse--simply wants to be, more dominant in a given situation. This can go south ever so…
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Posted January 24th, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/james-michael-nolan-santa-fe-nm/268414 Looking for a Therapist, or a Coach, or some Mentoring? Cool. If you're looking for a Guru, well......you better keep looking.......... jim …
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Posted January 22nd, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
One of My Greatest Learnings Over 65 Years.
(I have a lot of colleagues and acquaintances who cannot get this one, and I wish they would, but there is some built-in narrative that will not allow it. It saddens me about 93% of the time and is annoying as hell the…
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Posted January 15th, 2019 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
Psychotherapists, Counselors, Medicaid, Money, & You Therapists and $$$$ Many therapists (maybe ESPECIALLY Psychologists) will not take Medicaid. Mostly they say that the administrators of Medicaid are a pain in the rear, that a lot of clients on Medicaid can be very complicated, and last, but never…
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Posted December 3rd, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
New Online Therapy/Counseling/Coaching Options for INFPs
People have contacted me many times in the past about my Counseling or Life Coaching Services after reading my articles about being an INFP.
Well, now I am one of the therapists on BetterHelp.com. and am providing online counseling and coaching services to dozens of…
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Posted October 24th, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
Using "Contrast" as a positive force in one's life...…
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Posted October 23rd, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
Doc finds meaning once again in Siddhartha, a book he has read many times over 4 decades...…
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Posted September 10th, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe, Featured, Musings on Therapy, Musings on My Life Coaching.
Doctor Jim talks about using the Power of Ganesha in everyday life......…
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Posted April 21st, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
I couldn’t sleep.
I found an old box of journals I had written in the 1970’s and 1980’s, chronicling my life (as it were), my angst, and my overall consciousness.
It’s a good place to hang out, in your own psyche, forty years or so ago, give or take five or ten…when you…
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Posted April 19th, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
Thoughts Later in Life…
--by Jim Nolan
What has it all been about?
Is that the wrong question?
If it’s not over, is the meaning still up ahead?
Is ‘meaning’ what I should be looking for?
Do I just fill the time?
With things,…
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Posted March 26th, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
Doc offers a fun, simple way to think about your own personal mission statement...…
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Posted January 27th, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe, Featured.
A Poem about life...…
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Posted January 19th, 2018 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe, Featured.
“How You Doing With the Dying Thing?” --by Jim Nolan
Nobody talks about getting older, and what kinds of inner monologues rumble through our days and consciousness about that inevitability. The younger ones do not think on it much, and we elders have some kind of less-than-conscious agreement not to bring it up, for…
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Posted September 15th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on My Life Coaching.
When Men Want Big Changes in Their Lives
(And Somebody Ain’t Happy About It…) ---by Jim Nolan
“To thine own self be true.” --Polonious
This kind of advice can be found in many variations, and in many traditions. Though this example comes from a blowhard old fart in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it still…
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Posted September 3rd, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe, Featured, Musings on Therapy, Musings on My Life Coaching.
Men in their 50's and 60's often are very stuck, their experiences misunderstood, even by themselves...…
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Posted August 25th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Jim's Views On The Universe.
There are not Four Directions,
as there are not Seven Chakras.
There is no Holy Trinity,
as there is no “New Mexico.”
It is OK to pretend,
to tell these stories,
and it is a lot better
to remember
that we are pretending,
that we are…
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Posted August 21st, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Being an INFP.
Extroverts Do Not “Get” Introversion --by Jim Nolan Oh, they may think they do. They don’t. Many of them still think it's shyness, or social anxiety, or just needing to be encouraged some more. "C'mon, Big Guy, you can too sing Karaoke!!!" It's none of those things. Of course there will be your occasional…
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Posted August 12th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
--by Dr. James Michael Nolan
A lot of people get caught up in all kinds of details and what-ifs when it comes to the so-called “Law of Attraction” (which I happen to call the Principle of Attraction, for reasons you can read about…) Some people end up wanting to fight about it.…
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Posted August 5th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
“Of COURSE I Have ADHD—Right?”
So recently I found myself saying (on several different occasions) “Oh, I’m sure I’m ADD or ADHD, though I’ve never been diagnosed.” I’m always moving a million miles an hour, high speed trains running through my head, a thousand projects going at once, and all the usual Welcome…
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Posted July 1st, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Therapy, Musings on My Life Coaching.
I am getting a lot of calls these days for my private practice. Thankfully, my clients almost always tell me why they called me (rather than, or in addition to, the thirty-seven thousand OTHER therapists in Honolulu or Santa Fe…) It’s almost always about two things. OK---let's call it four.
My profile…
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Posted May 19th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Therapy, Musings on My Life Coaching.
I am a Psychotherapist, or a Counselor, or a Life Coach, or something along those lines.
My clients often inspire me. When we are hitting our stride, when the stars line up, I get to walk with them through the blooming of their lives. It’s humbling when it goes like that…
And it…
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Posted May 14th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Therapy, Musings on My Life Coaching.
Psychologist, Life Coach, or Both?!?
You don’t have to be a licensed Psychologist to also do Life Coaching, but man, it sure helps.
My experience over time has been that my sessions with clients drift many times, often within the same session, between “Coaching Stuff” (identifying client strengths and dreams,…
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Posted April 9th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Therapy.
A poem on Empowerment.....…
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Posted April 3rd, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Therapy, How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
How Dr. Jim approaches therapy...…
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Posted March 8th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
Playing Catch as Ceremony by Jim Nolan
Somebody who didn’t know baseball might have seen the five of us out there and call it “Guys throwing baseballs on the beach.” But you might call somebody nailing a Mozart Sonata “Guy plunking keys”, or a Lakota Pipe Ceremony “Dudes going out for a smoke"…
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Posted February 28th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
It's the Oddest Thing
Canto 1
There is not much time left,
but we agree not to talk about it--
It's the oddest thing,
but there it is.
Canto 2
I can't decide whether to
"make every moment count"
or just not think…
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Posted February 25th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
Jim strolls the French Quarter at dawn, and reflects...…
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Posted February 23rd, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
New Orleans is Not Like Bombay
by Jim Nolan, President, Therapist, Life Coach
That being said, being in New Orleans, and my draw to New Orleans brings Bombay to mind…
I find that what my mind has no familiar model for, I tend to experience as “chaos.” It’s not,…
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Posted February 22nd, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
Questions come to mind:
Is something "Sacred" because somebody claims it to be so? (That seems random...)
Is one lake "Sacred" while others are not? (That seems unlikely...)
Is everything "Sacred", but not everything is honored by being named so by the people living around it? (Hmmm...)
Is something "Sacred"…
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Posted February 22nd, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
OK, so at Goorin's Hat Store in the Quarter, the young lady tries to steer me in "a certain direction" old White guys go, and I just named it--"I am not doing 'Old White Guy goes Indiana Freakin'' Jones', like "yeah, dude, I'm still bringin' badass, if you want any...". Yeah, no... So I go…
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Posted February 17th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
Me & Al & My Life
So I was a freshman at The Ohio State University, and lied about my residence status so that I could avoid living in a dorm, and instead live with my lifelong friend and Cleveland neighbor Tommy Philip and some guys he knew. That’s how the Al thing…
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Posted February 13th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
"You can't get sick enough to make the sick ones well, and you can't get poor enough to make the poor ones abundant, and you can't get weak enough to make the weak ones strong, and you can't dis-empower yourself enough to make the dis-empowered ones feel empowered." Abraham says that a lot...
We…
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Posted February 12th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Therapy, Musings on My Life Coaching.
Hi...I am a Therapist and a Life Coach. I have had a really strong run at manifesting in my life, and I don’t even think I’m very good at keeping my thinking clean and positive. OMG, I can get whiny, negative, blaming, and all blah blah blah about the world, people I work with, and…
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Posted February 6th, 2017 by James Nolan & filed under Musings on Therapy.
What We Need in Our Lives: A Therapist’s Observations, by Jim Nolan
Something to look forward to. OK, I get the “Now” thing, and that’s coming up on this list. But Now, the way Now has been Nowed in the psycho-spiritual literature, is never enough for many of us. Sometimes “Now” is creating…
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Posted December 28th, 2016 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Therapy, How to Use the Law/Principle of Attraction.
Empowerment as a Choice: Victimhood as a Choice --by Jim Nolan
Life happens. People do what they do, elect who they elect, love what they love, get into against-ness with what they get into against-ness with, decide who will be their Personal Satan and who will be their Second Coming.
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Posted December 24th, 2016 by James Nolan & filed under Featured, Musings on Therapy.
Dr. Jim Nolan is having a banner year in his private practice. Here's why. Maybe. …
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Posted November 23rd, 2016 by James Nolan & filed under Featured.
Make a New Year’s Resolution to Get Back into Therapy or Coaching
Can you make changes in your life on your own?
Heck, yeah. We all do, all the time.
Can it help to have a therapist/coach on your side as you do so?
Heck, yeah. We all know that, too.
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