Joda Coolidge, M.Ed., CHHC
Is happiness a choice? As a positive psychology coach, she helps people live with purpose according to their own personal definition of success. Integrating nearly 20 years of experience in marketing with her background in professional counseling and life and wellness coaching, Joda founded Live Life Happy Coaching to help others embrace their choices and actions to bui
ld rich, full lives marked by joy, engagement, and alignment. Life Coaching
Working with a life coach is a powerful and effective way to quickly get to the root of whatever is making you feel stuck. Your life coach can help you get to know yourself more deeply and give you the skills, tools, and a plan you can use to change the way you think, feel and connect with others.
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Workshops
The Art of Allowing Joy
Joy is about identifying the thoughts in our head that are holding us back. Discover the impact our thinking has on brain development, health, well being. Our brain is brilliant. It has a negative default structure for survival. It is wired to struggle, grasp, and cling. It is not an event that is the source of our pain or our unhappiness. It is our thoughts about that event that create the suffering. This workshop aims to retrain the brain to shift from our constant negativity. By taking each thought and offering a way to hear things in a more positive and productive way, we welcome joy into our lives. The Alignment Advantage
It is taking you too much time to make sure your energy is invested in what makes you happy? We may love what we do, but are still faced with the challenge of managing our passion when other priorities – family, health, friends- are in our lives. This workshop is aimed to create useful tools for you to balance it all. See how alignment can provide the clarity forward to build your brand and your business. Participants will benefit from investing a little “me” time in learning how to:
-Conduct a “life audit” to see where the “deficits” may be
-Gain clarity on how to shift imbalances that are effecting you personally and professionally
-Establish clearly defined goals to shift your plan in a more positive direction
Live Sense-ationally
Connecting to our body’s guiding intuition using our 5 senses and relaxation tools. Journey Into the Body workshops are targeted to demonstrate how using sensory awareness, meditation, and mind mapping lead to a reconnection to life. In our hectic lifestyles, we often forget about the simple things in life, which bring us genuine happiness.
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Best Friend Retreats
Sometimes one well-planned meaningful day with a best friend can sustain your friendship for months on end. Nothing does that quite like a mini one-day retreat away in the friendship of other like-minded women. Best Friend One Day Retreats take you far away from the demands of everyday life, while keeping you close to home. You’ll enjoy…
A mini escape from your day-to-day obligations, all within two hours of the Washington DC area
An upscale destination, usually framed in beautiful natural surroundings
Fine food – always! The company of other dynamic and interesting women
Laughs and more laughs (or your money back!)
In my own life, I’ve found that too many months – sometimes years – have gone by before I carve out space to be with those I love the most – my best friends, my sisters, my mother, my husband or even myself. When I do make the time to spend with them, I never have any regrets that I made it happen. Life is too short to settle for less than the very best when it comes to spending time with the people we love. Take some time out today to plan for that time and space with your best friends. You too will never regret it.
