Sarah Montoya Coaching

Friends - I am pretty stinking proud of this Pokémon crew!

We’ll be chasing Pokémon all weekend!!

🍭🍬It’s candy and cavity season 🦷 💀

TIPS FOR HAPPY HEALTHY TEETH THIS HALLOWEEN

1) Help sort their collected goodies- Try to avoid sticky candies (e.g., Laffy taffy, tootsie rolls) stay on the teeth for a longer period of time, causing more exposure to sugar and greater chances of developing cavities over time.

2) Practice sharing- Have a conversation about sharing the candies so they are not the ones consuming every piece 3) Offer candy with or right after mealtimes- Snacking throughout the day, especially on candy and other sweets creates an acidic oral environment and greater exposure

time to harmful bacteria. 4) Drink water- Serve candy with a side of water to help rinse away those "sugar bugs"

5) Practice good brushing and flossing- It is the best time to communicate oral health care with your children! Brush twice a day with a safe and effective kidstoothpaste would keep the sugar bugs away! Sweet candies love to stay between the teeth, so flossing with is more important now than ever

First I let me say sometimes things are just bad, they’re just terrible, they just hurt, and they just need to be grieved. There is no learning or growing that needs to happen just being present to the pain and allowing healing to come when it comes and knowing that it will be a long slow process is enough.

And sometimes you’re dealing with a major (or minor) inconvenience, a frustration and annoyance, a problem that is able to teach you so much about who you are and how you can change and grow in response to the thing in front of you.

Right now I am in the process of dealing with a major inconvenience. I want to wallow and grieve and be angry and feel my feelings and I have every right to do that, but I have the opportunity to ask myself what can I learn from this? how can I grow from this? what can I do differently?

Stay curious

Stay curious with yourself - believing that there are layers of yourself you have yet to discover

Stay curious in relationships - believing best intent and expressing a desire to better understand

Stay curious with your family, your friends, your work, your life

Curiosity sparks joy and connection as it reveals new and surprising things - it also allows space for clarity instead of assumption

Take a moment and think about it. Do you know what activities, topics, destinations, projects bring you joy?
Do you know what you like? What sparks your interest, what makes you feel alive?

So many of us have become caught up in the survival of the past 2 years on top of the obligations of life that existed before that we cannot name our own sources of joy.

The hard truth is it’s extremely difficult to make choices about our lives from a place of hope when we cannot access our own joy.

What do you need to do to create space to explore your joy?

Don’t get me wrong I love Pinterest and Instagram for all the inspiration they offer AND sometimes you need to pause and remember that in a capitalist society everyone is making money off your discontent. It’s entirely possible that you already have everything you need and everything want. It’s entirely possible that what you see on social media isn’t actually what YOU want or what YOU need.

Tell me what did you want before social media?

Lovely humans - life is heavy and hard and even still it’s beautiful.

If your feeling powerless and discouraged- just do one good thing.

Do one good thing.

Text a friend.

Donate to a good cause.

Contact your representatives about an issue that matters to you.

Take a meal to someone going through a hard time.

Plant something.

Just do one small thing and do it again tomorrow and again and again each day after that.

Lovely humans - life is heavy and hard and even still it’s beautiful.

If your feeling powerless and discouraged- just do one good thing.

Do one good thing.

What’s bringing you joy today?

Thank you for this - this is why I focus so much on joy - not to avoid the hard part but to get energized to do the work.

How can I support you in seeking you?

Idea: Instead of asking yourself where you see yourself in 5 years - ask yourself what kind of relationships you want to have in 5 years and build your life accordingly.

How would your life change if you practiced self compassion?

Last week I had the joy of attending a webinar with as the guest speaker and her words on self compassion and her explanation of the research around it was so incredibly helpful for putting into words so much of what I already know to be true in my life.

She shared her own journey to practicing self compassion and how she applies it to parenting.

I was reminded again how important it is for us to give ourselves the compassion we seek to give others.

How can you embrace your own personal humanity today? How can you offer yourself compassion?

Image: Being human is not about being any one particular way; it is about being as life creates you—with your own particular strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges, quirks and oddities. - Kristin Neff

What if hiring a coach isn’t about changing your life but about learning how to live your life more fully?