Coach Kev Blog https://www.coachkev.life/blog/ Direct coaching for trauma, burnout, and the courage to redraw your map. No bulls*it. No filters. en-us Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT What Your Verbs Give Away https://www.coachkev.life/blog/what-your-verbs-give-away/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/what-your-verbs-give-away/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Consider a project update delivered entirely as a slide deck, with clean diagrams and a tidy timeline. One person in the room says they can see exactly… Option B Is Still an Option: Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant, and the Three Sentences Grief Writes for You https://www.coachkev.life/blog/option-b-is-still-an-option/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/option-b-is-still-an-option/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sheryl Sandberg's husband died suddenly while they were away on vacation. The book she wrote afterward with Adam Grant is not the book many readers would… The Protector You Keep Trying to Delete https://www.coachkev.life/blog/the-protector-you-keep-trying-to-delete/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/the-protector-you-keep-trying-to-delete/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Almost every high performer I work with arrives carrying an inner voice they describe, without much hesitation, as the problem. It runs commentary while… Always Is a Claim, Not a Fact https://www.coachkev.life/blog/always-is-a-claim-not-a-fact/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/always-is-a-claim-not-a-fact/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Picture someone sitting in their car after a meeting that went badly. 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https://www.coachkev.life/blog/toxic-thoughts-are-physical-structures/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/toxic-thoughts-are-physical-structures/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Many people talk about their thoughts the way they talk about weather, as if the anxious spiral or the guilt loop or the three-in-the-morning… You Are Not a Bad Person, You Are a Routine That Never Shut Off: The Guilt Debug Journal https://www.coachkev.life/blog/you-are-not-a-bad-person/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/you-are-not-a-bad-person/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT I do not usually put my own work in this slot, this space is for the books that changed how I coach, but I built something this month that belongs in the… You Will Not Get Over Them, and That Was Always the Wrong Goal: The Grief Debug Journal https://www.coachkev.life/blog/you-will-not-get-over-them/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/you-will-not-get-over-them/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT This is my own book, not someone else's, which breaks the usual rule of this column, but I want to hold it to the same standard I hold every book I… There Is No Spoon, and Your Brain Knew It First: Deviate by Beau Lotto https://www.coachkev.life/blog/deviate-seeing-differently/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/deviate-seeing-differently/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT There is a sentence in Beau Lotto's Deviate that I quote constantly, and it is this: your brain did not evolve to see the world accurately, it evolved to… The Story You're Making Up: Rising Strong by Brené Brown https://www.coachkev.life/blog/rising-strong/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/rising-strong/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brené Brown built her career at the University of Houston studying the things many of us spend our lives avoiding, shame, vulnerability, and the courage it… Ask a Better Question: Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins https://www.coachkev.life/blog/awaken-the-giant-within/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/awaken-the-giant-within/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT I will be honest about my relationship to Tony Robbins before I recommend him, because pretending otherwise would violate the whole point of this brand.… The Trauma You Can't Talk Your Way Out Of: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk https://www.coachkev.life/blog/body-keeps-the-score/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/body-keeps-the-score/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Bessel van der Kolk spent decades sitting with people whose lives had been organized around something terrible that happened to them, and The Body Keeps… The One Freedom They Couldn't Take: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl https://www.coachkev.life/blog/mans-search-for-meaning/ https://www.coachkev.life/blog/mans-search-for-meaning/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Viktor Frankl wrote most of Man's Search for Meaning in nine days, and he had earned every sentence of it the hard way, as a psychiatrist who was stripped… Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal 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