Category: Misc.

Soften the Sting of Betrayal

I tend to write The SHIFT-IT e-Zine around actual things that are happening in my own SHIFT-IT process and that of my clients – and this issue is no exception. Unfortunately the subject is betrayal, or at least perception of betrayal. Lately I have had a series of betrayals and so have some of my… Read more »


Cleaning Chart Images in Photoshop

This is a blog post written by Rachel Smith of The Grove Consultants International. You can find the original post at Rachel’s blog “Nimah Meets The World” I get asked a lot how to clean up chart pictures in Photoshop, so this post is probably way overdue. I learned this process from David Sibbet and… Read more »


A Note From Christina

Webinar Command Station

I’m enjoying early Spring … how about you? The big trees are beginning to bud, the early cherry trees are flowering … and the next level of my passion work is blooming too! It’s been webinar central around here lately – continuing to run my Biz & Life Accelerator (we have our 2nd retreat in… Read more »


In Your Words

Ayn Hanna

ACCEPTED IN LOCAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS & WON MY 1st AWARD! “I was recently asked, “How are you able to get your art done while also juggling a family and full-time day job?” Over the past year I have been working to become a Certified SHIFT-IT Coach, and I’ve been using this powerful… Read more »


How To Create and Evolve Your Offerings

The Outliers

Listen to this article Or right click here to download the audio I’m coming off a busy and buzzing week … providing ongoing coaching to my Biz and Life Accelerators (incubator where I teach the basics of building an online biz while simultaneously doing your inner work), launching the 2011 cohort of Certified Graphic Coaches,… Read more »


A Note From Christina

Independent, free agent, solopreneur, self employed, entrepreneur … whatever you want to call it, this month I have officially done it for a decade! Besides feeling flippin’ old (how did 10 years go by so fast) I also feel appreciative, wiser and aware of feeling that the next chapter is beginning to reveal itself. Sooooo… Read more »


In Your Words

Brenda Rivas

ABLE TO RELEASE YEARS OF PAIN & GUILT. IN AWE OF CHRISTINA’S SOOTHING YET POWERFUL COACHING “Before becoming a client of Christina’s I was very much stuck in limiting thought patterns. While working through Christina’s SHIFT-IT program I was able to uncover and heal the one thing that had kept me from stepping into the… Read more »


Lessons Learned from 10 Years as Solopreneur

This week marks the tenth year anniversary of me going into business for myself. Back in 2001, I left an internal position that had served me very well … as a Graphic Recorder/Facilitator/Trainer for The Grove Consultants International (pioneering group graphics firm in San Francisco founded by David Sibbet). It was a heck of a… Read more »


A Note From Christina

Jonathan Aslay & Christina Merkley

I’m down in warm Los Angeles, California this week. It’s such a treat after the snow dump we had in Victoria. What can I say … I’m a bad Canadian – living in San Francisco all those years ruined me for living in colder weather again. I LOVE getting away during the blah wintertime to… Read more »


In Your Words

SHIFT-IT CENTRAL® IS MY WEEKLY ROCK OF GIBRALTAR – I NEVER MISS IT! “My dream is to move to the South of Spain … and since identifying that is where I want to be the Rock of Gibraltar (Hercules myth) has turned into a personal symbol for me … both literally and figuratively. Since joining… Read more »