Our brain’s number one job is to keep us alive. All the thoughts that it offers us day in and day out are meant to protect us in order to meet this objective. However, the very thoughts that our brain offers to keep us alive are also the very thoughts that can keep us from actually living the life we really want to live. Over the past month, I’ve had some experiences that have reminded me again how lucky I am to have the chance to be alive and that the only thing that keeps me from boldly gettin...
May 12, 2022•36 min•Ep. 158
There probably isn’t a job with more responsibility or higher expectations than motherhood. However, our thoughts about our responsibilities as a mom and whether or not we are meeting the expectations of the job can make mothering even harder. What we sometimes forget is that we are mothering other humans. And those other humans get as much agency and choice as we do. When we tangle our work and our results as parents with our children’s choices, we can inadvertently put too much pressure on our...
May 05, 2022•33 min•Ep. 157
Every human being struggles with thoughts and feelings of doubt and fear and discouragement and if you have listened to my podcast for any length of time you have heard me explain that this is because of the way our brains are biologically programmed. Noticing what’s wrong with us is our brain’s way of ensuring our survival. However, this is just one way of looking at our experience with negative thoughts. On today’s podcast, I interview my dad, Dennis Deaton, about his new book in which he offe...
Apr 28, 2022•44 min•Ep. 156
God and the grace he offers us is the biggest source of strength we have in challenging times, but most of us aren’t accessing that strength and asking for his help because we think he’s mad or disappointed or frustrated with us. Nothing could be further from the truth and understanding God’s infinite love and constant approval of you will change your relationship with him. In today’s podcast I’m sharing four ways to think about how God feels about you that will allow you to give up your shame a...
Apr 21, 2022•29 min•Ep. 155
Your brain’s really good at seeing what’s gone wrong. But that is only ever half of the story. There is also a whole lot of wonder happening in your life right now and in today’s podcast, I want to put all your attention on that. Your life is a gift, exactly as it is, and no matter what’s happening, no matter where we are or what reality we are living, there is always the wonder of growth, of choice, of creation, of starting over, and of love available to every one of us. Chris Ballas wrote, “Th...
Apr 14, 2022•31 min•Ep. 154
Your brain’s number one job is to keep you alive and, for the most part it, does this by keeping you small and safe and doing things you’ve always done in the way you’ve always done them. Your brain has very little interest in you living your fullest, biggest, bravest life and so every time you go to change and grow and create more from your life, it’s going to put up a lot of resistance. The way we move forward anyway is by choosing thoughts that allow us to keep taking action even when our bra...
Apr 07, 2022•36 min•Ep. 153
The most powerful force in our lives is thought. Our thoughts have more constructive or destructive power than anything else in the world. And our thoughts don’t just change us. They change history. They change the world. Sometimes we can get overwhelmed by how much we want to change in our lives and how many thoughts we have that are not serving us. But the truth is that thought is such a powerful force, that even changing one thought can create a ripple with exponential impact and significant,...
Mar 31, 2022•29 min•Ep. 152
Even when we are ready to change our lives and we’re sick and tired of being sick and tired and even when we’ve decided that coaching is the way we want to make those changes, our fear and anxiety can still keep us from signing up. Because it turns out that just like anything else in our lives, our brains have thoughts about coaching. They have thoughts about us and whether we deserve coaching and whether we need coaching and whether it will really work for us. We have thoughts about the money a...
Mar 24, 2022•24 min•Ep. 151
Because our brains think approval from others is necessary for our survival, most of us are pretty good at meeting other people’s expectations and not letting other people down. However, when it comes to us and keeping our commitments to ourselves, it’s a whole lot harder to count on us. But having a rock-solid relationship with yourself and knowing that you can count on you is one of the best feelings in the world and it’s the key to creating the life you want. Being able to count on you is a s...
Mar 17, 2022•33 min•Ep. 150
Our brain wants to tell us that change is too big, too hard, too out of reach—that the difference between where we are and where we want to be is just too far to ever be possible. But we only ever have to take one step at a time and the best first step is to sign up for coaching. Coaching not only makes any change practical, doable, and possible, it also teaches you how to love yourself all the way there. My next coaching group starts the first week in April and now is the perfect time to take t...
Mar 14, 2022•17 min•Ep. 150
We all have goals and dreams for our lives. Each one of us has nudges and urges and desires to grow and change, increase our capacity, and amazing things with our lives. And yet, more often than not, we find ourselves not doing the things we say we want to do. We make plans, we make declarations, we get sick and tired of being sick and tired and we tell ourselves that “This is it! We’re done going through the motions. This time we’re gonna get different results.” And yet, mostly we just find our...
Mar 10, 2022•31 min•Ep. 149
Being a human is incredibly challenging. But what makes things even harder is the nearly constant nagging and criticism that can come from our own brains. Many of us are especially harassed and bothered with the thought that we should be different—in. every. way. One of the gifts of coaching is being able to see that every one of these thoughts is optional and unnecessary. And when we stop believing them and stop thinking that we should be different, then we are free to be ourselves and heal the...
Mar 03, 2022•34 min•Ep. 148
In order to change or grow any result in your life, the only thing you have to do is grow your thinking. And I have two ways to help you do that: Free Class: Is Coaching the Answer for You? Friday, March 4th at 9 am PT. You can register at https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/coaching (If you can’t come live there will be a replay sent to everyone that is registered.) Made for More – My next coaching group starts the first week in April! You can get signed up or get on a call to talk about it by g...
Feb 28, 2022•14 min
Recently, my husband and my daughter were both “released” from their service assignments in our church. Their experience of the end of their service and the grief they have felt at the end of these sweet periods in their lives have reminded me that there is a release date ahead for every one of us. Our earth life experience is limited. We only have so many days, we only have so many hours, to have this human experience. Someday it will end for every one of us, but we can use this reality to empo...
Feb 24, 2022•30 min•Ep. 147
There is a very real fight happening in your life every single day—the fight between what your brain wants and what you (as an eternal, spiritual being) want. And I want you to win that contest. I want you to win your life. Your brain is solely working for your body. It’s doing what it thinks is best for your body in any given moment and it is motivated by pleasure, the avoidance of pain, and the conservation of energy. Your brain is not working for your spirit. Which is really good to know. Thi...
Feb 17, 2022•31 min•Ep. 146
You all know I’m a massively huge fan of coaching. It changed my life in every possible way and the best part is that that change is not done. The changes that have happened in my perspective, my awareness, my creation, my possibility, and my capacity are only just beginning. On today’s episode of the podcast, I am joined by my son, Caleb Price, who is also a certified life coach, and we talk about what makes coaching so awesome, how it’s different than anything else that you’ve tried, and why g...
Feb 10, 2022•41 min•Ep. 145
There are just so many circumstances in our lives that we cannot change. Some of them are mistakes we make, some of them are mistakes other people make, some of them are just the result of living in a fallen world where there are accidents and death and disease. And even though we live in a reality with circumstances that we cannot change and cannot control, our human tendency is to argue with this and resist the pain and discomfort associated with reality. But resisting what is happening in our...
Feb 03, 2022•32 min•Ep. 144
When we think about creating new habits, we naturally tend to focus our attention on our behaviors and actions. But each of us also have mental habits, thoughts that we have thought repeatedly and often, sometimes for years or even decades of our lives. The more we think the same thought, in fact every time we think the thought, the deeper and more efficient our neural pathways to that thought become—making our most repeated thoughts easy to think and easy to believe and more and more automatic....
Jan 27, 2022•32 min•Ep. 143
A lot of us spend a lot of time in our lives trying to figure out why we’re here and what we’re supposed to be doing while we’re here. This can leave us trying to find fulfilment and purpose through the things we do—and this is a stressful way to live. Instead of figuring out what we WANT to do, we get preoccupied with what we HAVE to do or what we SHOULD be doing and measuring our worth according to how we are doing it. The problem comes from thinking our identity, purpose, and intention are al...
Jan 20, 2022•29 min•Ep. 142
When we set goals or go to create new things in our lives, we often feel excited and motivated and energized. However, these feelings don’t last very long. Because our brain’s objective is always to get us to stop, the positive emotions that were there when we set the goal are usually quickly replaced by negative ones. This is a problem because our emotions fuel and power our actions. In order to not stop and to continue to create the results we want, we need to purposefully choose useful emotio...
Jan 13, 2022•30 min•Ep. 141
When we go to change our lives, our brains automatically go to work trying to figure out what we need to do differently. We make lots of goals and plans. We set up new systems and schedule and resolve to stick to them. But changing what we do without changing our thoughts doesn’t work for long. This new year, I want you to think about the power of changing your thoughts instead of your actions. And especially, to think about the power of changing even one thought. Think about a thought that you ...
Jan 06, 2022•25 min•Ep. 140
The end of the year is always a good time to reflect on our growth and the things we are learning while we are here on earth. Most of us think we know the way things should go, but life is always giving us the exact lessons we need. Everything happens FOR us, and I think it’s always valuable to stop and notice and remember the lessons that you got this year that you could get in no other way. In today’s episode, I share some of the most important lessons of my year, the things I am most grateful...
Dec 30, 2021•24 min•Ep. 139
Most of us have a lot of expectations when it comes to the holiday season. And when our expectations don’t match up with reality, it can create a lot of suffering for us, especially when it’s supposed to be “the most wonderful time of the year.” But our expectations are just thoughts masquerading as “rules” for a perfect holiday season. And when we believe these thoughts, we’re likely to think something’s gone wrong with us or our lives when the only problem is with the expectation itself. In to...
Dec 23, 2021•34 min
Imagine yourself in the future you want. If future you could write a letter to yourself here in the present, what would you say? What would you thank yourself for? What decisions would you be so glad that you made now to create that future then? What would you be grateful to yourself for thinking and feeling and doing, to create that future moment then? For most of us, our future feels uncertain and unpredictable but that’s only because we don’t realize what has created our present. It’s all bei...
Dec 16, 2021•26 min•Ep. 137
Our brain wants to tell us that changing our life is really hard. But I think you only really need to believe three things to change everything else. Join me on this special bonus episode of the podcast where I explain the only three things you need to believe to change anything you want. To learn about my coaching program and sign up for a free coaching call go to: www.aprilpricecoaching.com/madeformore
Dec 13, 2021•13 min
You’ve probably heard me talk a lot about how coaching has given me the tools to change my life, but the decision to be coached didn’t just impact me—it changed my family, my clients, my community, and the world at large. And it doesn’t stop there. The changes I have made in my own thinking have generational impact as well. This is true of all of our choices. Every choice we make has a ripple effect. And I think that it is freaking awesome that even though I signed up for coaching to change me, ...
Dec 09, 2021•41 min•Ep. 136
Accepting our life as it is can become a habit. We sometimes forget that it can be better. In this special episode of the podcast, I remind you that you can have more and share the best way I know to get it. To learn more about my coaching program and sign up for a free call go to www.aprilpricecoaching.com/madeformore
Dec 06, 2021•11 min
Our lives are finite and our time on earth is precious. We each want to get the most out of our life experience but sometimes it feels like the things that happen to us, the actions of other people, and our own brains are preventing us from doing that. On today’s podcast, I’ll show you how the things that may appear to be keeping you from the life you want are the very things that will allow you to get the most out of your experience on earth. Everything that happens to you while you are here pr...
Dec 02, 2021•36 min•Ep. 135
My life was completely changed by life coaching. The things I have learned and the skills I gained are among the greatest blessings of my life because they made every other part of my life better. It wasn’t that coaching gave me things I didn’t have. Coaching just showed me how to use what was already in me, the agency God had already endowed me with, to love my life and make the intentional choices I wanted to make to live a life I am proud of. This is available to all of us. You have exactly w...
Nov 25, 2021•38 min•Ep. 134
We all want to do amazing things in our life, but for every amazing thing we create, there is a lot of discomfort that comes along with it. Success has companions. Results have “friends” that come with them that accompany their creation. You can’t get one without the other. These result companions go by names like dread, inadequacy, anxiety, insecurity, terror, shame, and fear. They are the accompanying negative emotions that come when you leave your comfort zone and do new things. And anybody w...
Nov 18, 2021•32 min•Ep. 133
