Can Life Coaching Improve Your Dating Skills?

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Dr. Errol Gluck

Let’s talk about dating. Remember dating? It used to exist. Now, everything is online and here is some of my advice for you.

One is, don’t go online. The ability to walk over to another person, introduce yourself, give them a business card and say, “Listen, this who I am. I don’t know you, you don’t know me, but I would love to have a cup of coffee with you.

Now, if you are able to accept the fact that there’s going to be a lot of rejection involved, but at least you show that you have the courage, you have the confidence to say, “This is who I am. Look me up online. I’m single, I’m not involved, and I’d like to get to know you. If you’re open to that, great.”

The ability to look in a person’s eyes — as opposed to texting them, as opposed to going through the Internet where people lie about just about everything — is a skill that you might just want to develop.

Dating can be extremely fascinating, if you eliminate the fear and you eliminate the bullshit. Try it. You might like it.

You might say what I just told you to do, I could not possibly do! That is why you need life coaching. I will show you how to get into a person’s personal without threatening them.

I will show you how to communicate in a way that’s comfortable, how to create instant intimacy, how to create a sense of you’re a safe person and not a nut! I will show you how to date in a way that will make you an expert dater, and at the same time, not a liar. This is an adventure you’re going to want to take.

Go here to find out how to improve your dating and relationship skills.

A Message from Your Favorite Life Coach: Pretty is as Pretty Does

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Dr. Errol Gluck

As a Life Coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist for over 35 years, I have worked with a countless number of both male and female patients. One common thing that I have found with many female clients is that many women’s self-esteem is directly influenced by society’s standards and expectations for female beauty.

From Marilyn Monroe, to Kim Kardashian, Twiggy to Kate Moss, Barbie to Beyoncé, each culture has imposed this socially accepted projection of female beauty, criticizing the majority of women who do not fulfill these impossible standards and pressuring them to endure time consuming and sometimes painful grooming rituals in order to come as close to this idealistic mold as possible.

Back in the day, it was all about corsets made of whalebones, foot binding, and lye based hair relaxers that burned the scalp. Today it’s 8 inch high heels, poison based facial injections, plastic surgery, even body binding, spandex based, undergarments intended to suck the body in or pad and enhance certain curves.

Though the trends change, the sentiment that “pain is beauty” still resonates in the mind of every adult female. The pressure to fulfill the impossible expectations of female physical attractiveness, to live up to these standards of beauty, is society’s obsession, and this social obsession has driven many beautiful individuals to developing a multitude of physical and mental disorders.

Anorexia, Bulimia, Depression- all of these conditions manifest themselves as ‘low self esteem’, when in the earliest stages. While being conventionally attractive isn’t a crime, the problem is that somehow society has created a bad habit of linking attractiveness to not only being likeable, but also being completely flawless in every single way. The prettier one is, the more positive attention one gets, and the more attention one is getting, the more probable it is their entire lives are perfect, right? Wrong.

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Helicopter Parenting

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Dr. Errol Gluck

There was this great video on Fox Business the other day about helicopter parenting. Helicopter parenting, for those who don’t know, is the intrusive parenting technique that stifles a child’s self-reliance.

With the baby boomers, it has become a widespread problem full of clichés. As many of you might know, I offer life coaching to new parents. Perhaps no demographic is more nervous than new parents: will we mess up our child? Will the child love us? How will we keep our sanity through all those sleepless nights?

I will assuage all those fears, and instill both the confidence and the skill that is required for successful parenting. And trust me, you won’t be helicopter parents under my watch. What makes you great parents starts out by identifying what makes you great people. Give my office a call.

Watch the video about helicopter parenting here…

Can Clinical Hypnosis and Life Coaching Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder?

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Dr. Errol Gluck

It’s cold, windy, dark at 4 in the afternoon, and though the gym is only a 15 minute commute, you would rather stay curled up in your warm bed, stuffing your face with takeout or rich holiday leftovers.

When you do decide you are ready to leave the house, you realize the only thing you feel most comfortable in are oversized sweaters and stretch pants and such a realization only makes you want to crawl back into bed to continue eating and watching your Breaking Bad marathon on Netflix.

This negative hibernation cycle can only mean one thing- it’s winter.

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Life Coaching Myths

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Dr. Errol Gluck

I have been working as a Life Coach for over 35 years, and throughout my experience I’ve heard a lot of incorrect assumptions about people’s expectations of what they think a Life Coach does or is supposed to do. Allow me to set the record straight about Life Coaching and clarify what we do here at Gluck Solutions.

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