Lorna Blake's Profile

Biography

Lorna Blake is a powerful, positive and inspiring empowerment specialist. She has over 10 years experience in helping people take charge of their lives and achieve their goals. Lorna has a degree in Social Work and is certified as a teacher. Combining her professional training with her own life experiences in overcoming adversity, she brings a unique brand of expertise to life coaching. Using her own personal story of triumph over difficulties she has facilitated workshops and seminars and helped hundreds of clients. Her story touches the lives of people everywhere. She has recently written a 6 week e-Course on Assertiveness Training and an e-Book entitled Whose Life Is It Anyway. She specializes in coaching clients for self-empowerment, relationships, health, stress-management, finances, transitions and work-life balance. She teaches clients to take gradual steps and have fun along the way to reaching their goals.

Lorna Blake's articles

  • Is Your Light Growing Dim?
    Many of us women have been taught to take care of everyone’s needs but our own. By always putting everyone’s needs ahead of yours, according to Kathryn Tull, you are dimming your light.
    Posted: 2010-06-24
    Category: Self Improvement
  • Are you experiencing emotional chaos in your life?
    She suggests that you talk to the little girl inside you by asking her: “Why are you feeling this way?” She had been experiencing emotional chaos and in dialoguing with her inner child she got this response: “I have to be perfect when I go in public.”
    Posted: 2010-06-17
    Category: Self Improvement
  • Are you playing small? Is that because you were told you’ll never amount to anything?
    According to Dr. Joe Rubino, the world’s leading authority on self-esteem optimization, many times as children we were told that we weren’t good enough and we accepted and absorbed these negative ideas.
    Posted: 2010-05-19
    Category: Self Improvement
  • Do you ever judge people based on their looks?
    Do you know what it’s like to be judged base on your weight, skin colour, clothes, ability, gender, sexual orientation etc.
    Posted: 2010-05-12
    Category: Self Improvement
  • How do you start your day?
    For most of us we wake up in the morning and as we come to awareness we start thinking about what we don’t have, don’t want and can’t get. If we don’t ground ourselves in some rituals we become very stressed out as we go through our day. And we find ourselves reacting to every situation instead of responding.
    Posted: 2010-05-05
    Category: Self Improvement
  • Are you living in fear based on your past?
    Holding on to fear will only make you create exactly the reality that you fear.
    Posted: 2010-04-28
    Category: Self Improvement
  • Are you afraid to speak up for your wants and needs?
    One of the most important skills we need to develop in order to be happy is how to ask for what we want. Yet most of us never learn. Others think they’ll lose the things that are important to them – friendships, relationships, job etc.
    Posted: 2010-04-21
    Category: Self Improvement
  • The Power of a Smile
    “Smile. Your smile lights up a room.” It was more than 20 years ago and I had been going through a difficult time. The stress was starting to show on my face. One of my mentors took me aside and she said: “ Smile, your smile could charm a ratbat!”
    Posted: 2010-04-15
    Category: Self Improvement
  • How Do I Work Through Conflict?
    Addressing conflict can be challenging for many of us. Many times we either ‘fight’ or ‘fly’ depending on how we were raised and how we saw our families of origin deal with issues. ‘Fighting’ and ‘flying’ both lead to alienation and these are aggressive and passive responses respectively.
    Posted: 2010-04-08
    Category: Self Improvement
  • How Can I Develop a Positive Attitude?
    There’s a saying I grew up with as a child: “Ungrateful worse than obeah.” It means that living in a state of ingratitude for life, your situation, your circumstances is going to keep you locked into your difficulties…
    Posted: 2010-04-05
    Category: Self Improvement
  • How Can I Afford Time to Play?
    It’s been said the number one regret people have when they lay on their death beds is that they took their lives too seriously. In other words they didn’t play enough. That’s pretty darn serious, isn’t it? So can you afford not to play? If you spend all your life working without taking time to play that could be you…
    Posted: 2010-03-31
    Category: Arts & Entertainment
  • How Do I Set Appropriate Boundaries?
    I often meet people who ask my advice on this very question. It’s a very challenging issue for those of us who were taught that our role is to cater to everyone else’s needs, never speak up for our rights and always say yes to whatever you’re asked to do.
    Posted: 2010-03-24
    Category: Self Improvement