Life lessons | Tyra Garlington

You’ve got to give me room.

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Last week I asked you the question, “Do you agree love is all you need?” Obviously, your answer was directly related to your operational definition of love. I hope the topic stimulated consideration and perhaps discussion. This week I continue my Tyra talks about love refrain. I invite you to consider another relationship scenario that has on occasion presented itself in my life coaching sessions. My life’s emotional journey made it easy for me to relate; maybe you can as well. Right away, almost suddenly you and your significant other are living your definition of mutual adoration. Your love is……
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Do you agree love is all you need?

Posted on February 16, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Last Sunday was Valentine’s Day. Personally, I have not received a love Valentine since I was divorced several years ago. I have dipped my toe in the relationship pool a couple of times but the water just wasn’t right. So I intentionally spend Valentine’s Day afternoons watching movies with love themes just to see if there is anything new under the sun since the day was named after Saint Valentine in the 5th century. What I do know is Valentine’s Day is a retail bonanza. Over 150 million cards are exchanged yearly and over $480 million dollars are spent on……
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Did you know that the ugly duckling was always a swan?

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Most people think this children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen is a story of transformation when in fact it is a story of misperception. I know I did. I kept thinking as a little girl that the ugly duckling somehow turned into a beautiful swan. I landed on this thought as I was walking through the grocery store and overheard a lovely young lady say to her companion, “I sent my photo to AmIUgly.net last night.” “What?” My head snapped. I could not believe what I was hearing. As soon as I got home I googled amiugly.net. The AmIUgly subreddit homepage delivered 102,000 results……
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What does it mean to you to go off script?

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Martin Luther King who graduated from Morehouse College after studying medicine and law had not intended to follow in his father’s footsteps by joining the ministry. Martin went off script when he changed his mind under the mentorship of Morehouse’s president, Dr. Benjamin Mays, an influential theologian and outspoken advocate for racial equality. After graduating in 1948, King entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree, won a prestigious fellowship and was elected president of his predominantly white senior class. In 1953, Coretta Scott who was studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music……
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Can you cradle these transitions in 2016?

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Last week I asked you, “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” To answer that question you had to empower yourself to believe that impossible is merely a word to describe the degree of difficulty. This week I ask you to consider as you move from the no longer of 2015 and step into the not yet of 2016, how well you are prepared to face the typical transitions that come with the passage of time. Change can come in forcefully like a tidal wave, or creep along incrementally like a glacier. It might have the face of a devastating……
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What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

In a number of hours it will be 2016. It’s time for our New Year’s Resolutions. A New Year’s resolution is a tradition, most common in the West but found around the world, in which a person makes a promise on New Year’s Eve to make certain changes or self-improvements in the year ahead. It is believed that the Babylonians were the first to make New Year’s resolutions around 4,000 years ago, and people all over the world have been breaking them ever since! The ancient Babylonians made promises to their gods at the start of each year, which began……
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How do you spell Christmas?

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

What is your favorite Christmas movie? There are about as many Christmas movies out there as there are secret compartments in an Advent calendar. You could watch one a day for months leading up to Christmas! The iconic It’s a Wonderful Life consistently ranks among the top contenders for Best Christmas Movie Ever, and today you are invited to journey to Bedford Falls and discover the faith lessons found in It’s a Wonderful Life. When George Bailey sidles up to Martini’s Bar on Christmas Eve, he’s at the lowest point of his life. In the span of only a few……
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You need to know this!

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Especially if you are planning to celebrate Thanksgiving … I know, its long, but give it a look anyway. On October 3, 1863, following the civil war with a union victory, President Abraham Lincoln made the following proclamation. “The year that is drawing to its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which……
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“Breaking News: Paris Under Attack! Terrorists Dance Between the Raindrops.”

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Terrorism isn’t James Bond or Tom Clancy. Even al-Quaeda is looking old school these days–now it’s just some guy with a bomb. He walks the same roads as us. He thinks the same thoughts. But he’s got a bomb.” MICHAEL MARSHALL, Blood of Angels Who stole the identity of the city of love; the fashion capital of the world? Friday night reality overtook the pretend horror of the highest rated action film. A random loud noise ended quiet conversations and scattered those in mid sentence. The danger came from inside and out. The fear in the eyes of people passing by……
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How do you greet the morning?

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Dan Fogelberg wrote a song many years ago titled To The Morning. The chorus included these words: “And it’s going to be a day, there is really no way to say no to the morning” So the morning comes faithfully every day and without any help from us. The only thing we can affect is how we greet it. And although the morning is inevitable, our ability to enjoy it isn’t. We have to be intentional about our joy. Personally, I love the morning! I am told that since I was an infant, I met the morning with giggles and coos and a smile when……
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