Learn to Love Yourself
Gain Self-Esteem and Healthy Empowerment
Honor all your feelings, especially anger and resentment
Sandra Hardcastle
Author! Coach! Speaker!
Author! Coach! Speaker!
Author! Coach! Speaker!
Welcome! I'm glad you're here!
Are you looking for greater inner peace?
healthy empowerment?
how to learn to love yourself?
If so, you have come to the right place!
Keep reading or just pick up the phone and call Sandra at 765-288-0866.
What you teach opens a door and when the door opens, it lets in a tremendous bright light. Georgia R., MO
You keep it simple—even the deep subjects! Kenny B., CO
Author! Coach! Speaker!
Author! Coach! Speaker!
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Artisans and Authors Fair
Saturday November 16, 2024
12 noon – 4 p.m.
Anderson Public Library
111 E. 12th Street
Anderson, IN 46106
I Believe...
I believe World Peace is dependent upon the amount of inner peace in individuals.
On a daily basis, each of us is contributing positively or negatively to world Peace.
Seven days a week for 52 weeks a year there are opportunities for us to notice how much inner peace we currently possess. Likewise, there are opportunities to glimpse a hint of how much additional calm and ease we want.
With each awareness, we get to choose if we're ready to "step up to the plate" of increased personal growth.
Sandra Hardcastle
Contact
For speaking, workshops, products, or coaching, contact
Sandra Hardcastle
765-288-0866
Products
JFK, Here’s My Contribution to Our Country by Sandra Hardcastle
JFK, Here’s My Contribution to Our Country
by Sandra Hardcastle
On Amazon in paperback and kindle formats
JFK, Here’s My Contribution to Our Country
On Amazon in paperback and kindle formats
Bottomline: Anger is not the problem. The problem is how we deal with anger!
This book is not about JFK, but since he asked what we could do for our country, this is my contribution of observations, experiences, beliefs, and hope. I believe
this nation is sitting on tons of latent healthy power in those who feel frustrated and helpless to solve a myriad of problems. We are bombarded daily with the news of inappropriate expressions of anger, and I, on the other hand, learned to stuff my anger and frustrations—also “not good.”
Depression and low self-esteem led to therapy where I got in touch with decades of that stored anger. In this book I share the journey of learning to love myself and how to deal with anger appropriately—the outcomes of which have been healthy empowerment and agency.
Chapters on each of my parents give insights into my upbringing and the unforeseen consequences of growing up with a gazillion “shoulds” and “oughts.” Topics of validation, toxic shame, conscious choices, and “fight words” are included … plus notes from a trip to Africa.
~~~ Take what you like from this book and leave the rest! Sandra
What can Sandra Hardcastle do for me?
1. Help you achieve healthy empowerment and inner peace
~ Coaching helps you
- Gain insight about yourself
- Remove your inner blocks to peace
- See new ways of looking at things
- Become aware of feelings
- Learn to deal appropriately with emotions, especially anger, resentment, and bitterness
- Feel personally empowered
- Learn to love yourself
- Gain illumination about real options
- Feel freedom
For information on coaching, call Sandra at 765-288-0866.
By the yard it’s hard. By the inch it’s a cinch.
2. See the connection between your inner peace and world peace
~ Through individual coaching and / or group trainings and classes
- You will see your ability to impact world peace through your own daily life and inner peace
Testimonials
Maryalice Cruz, M.S., R.D., L.D. in Missouri. Sandra was a speaker at our two-day professional health care seminar. She was voted the most outstanding speaker of the event.
Rev. Bill Huth, Chaplain, YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park Center, Colorado. Sandra effectively offers concepts … which are practical, therapeutic, and spiritually accurate……Add to that the buoyant aspect of her humor.
Name withheld in Missouri. She’s more informative than “experts.”
Chris Collins in Missouri. When Sandra and I work together, judgment is not part of the equation so I can freely discuss anything.
I am one of the luckiest people in the world to be coached by you in all matters human!......I will never forget that first day we talked. Never. In one moment, I knew that a) I had some major problems, b) I was overwhelmed, and c) there was help…….You were a) a listener, b) a thinker, and c) a trusted advocate. I never knew anyone who could walk ahead of me a few steps. I’ve had mentors before, but none who I could learn from every single time we met. I was astounded and ecstatic. You gave me permission to be me, to feel whatever I was feeling even if it was negative. You gave me permission to be centered, all by myself. It was a grand gift.
About Sandra Hardcastle
Out-going, plain-spoken, and fun-loving, Sandra Hardcastle inspires, motivates, and empowers others to create a more fulfilling life of conscious choice and growth. She has:
~ Authored JFK, Here’s My Contribution to Our Country, with a main focus on anger and communication issues hiding in plain sight and a second on gaining healthy self-esteem.
In addition, Sandra has presented or coached in more than 500 settings:
~ Hosted a 15-week cable TV series, The Simple Paths to Inner Peace, in Estes Park, CO
~ Given a featured presentation at the Midwestern Women’s Show in Denver, CO, and led workshops for three years at the Working Women’s Survival Show in St. Louis, MO.
~ Taught four 8-week summer programs at the YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park Center.
~ Coached individuals in person and by phone.
~ Facilitated support groups at Carpenter Recovery Center, St. Peters, MO.
~ Offered a dozen continuing education classes through Maryville University in St. Louis.
~ Conducted retreats, workshops, and speaking engagements in six states for religious, educational, health, and community-based organizations.
~ Led more than three dozen 3-8 week series of classes on Learning to Love Yourself, Personal Power: Using It Wisely, Slowdown by One-Half, Those Frustrating Shoulds, and Dealing with Anger Appropriately.
Sandra adds:
What I teach does not come from a degree in psychology. I am not a trained counselor. The only “psych” class I’ve taken was a beginning class for my B.S. in biology with a teaching certificate from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY. During a 20-year period, my teaching stints included senior high biology for 2 years; middle school biology 1 year; music and remedial math, 6 elementary grades for 6 months; preschool 1 year; and substitute teaching, K-12, for 3 years … not in that order.
Along the way, more of life happened. When I entered therapy for depression, I began “getting Sandra back” and realized what I really wanted to teach were the concepts that were, literally, giving back my soul. I got in touch with issues of perfectionism, co-dependency, and people-pleasing.
Most importantly I discovered lots of anger was stuffed and stored in such a way I didn’t even know it was there! It was so hidden, so off-the-radar, it seemed I could hardly speak or spell the word! I now know that learning to deal, in suitable ways, with both past and current anger AND the fear of anger (both my own and others’) has been a major key to my increased empowerment, peace, and joy.
So has coming out of the clutches of “shoulds,” “ought to’s,” and “have to’s.”
So has paying attention to the options I have in every situation and the choice I decide to make. Choosing empowers. The process of making a conscious choice followed by looking at the result of that choice as to positive or negative, and then deciding if that’s the choice one wishes to make the next time … each of these conscious steps allows a person to grow into a greater maturity of accepting personal responsibility.
Since I don’t have a degree to teach the concepts above and do have one for biology, and after being asked several times why not continue with biology, I decided to take a close look at “my life’s path.” Was there a connection between biology and my current teaching of concepts for personal growth and empowerment? Indeed, I discovered the connecting link is observation. From the time I was living down on the farm at seven and noticing which butterflies liked which plant … to my fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Bell, assigning us to look at a twig and draw everything on it (Wow!) … to dissecting frogs and flowers, I’ve been hooked on observation.
And that’s exactly how self-discovery begins, how gaining empowered peace begins, how changing our lives—our Self—begins. It all starts with slowing down and observing / noticing / acknowledging, “Something’s not okay here. I want something different.”
The same process applies equally to individuals, organizations, businesses, (and for countries, too).
~~~
Pam in Missouri: Thanks for the “safe” atmosphere.
Helen D. in Colorado: For the first time I was able to speak of the unexplained anger I was experiencing, and it frightened me……Very slowly [Sandra’s] gentle counsel brought some small rays of sunshine into my dark hole......Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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