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How to Be Okay When You’ve Grown Apart from Your BFF
How to Be Okay When You’ve Grown Apart from Your BFF I love my friends. I still keep in touch with many of them from as far back as elementary school. In my mind, our shared childhood is a treasure trove of stories that only we know, so it’s sacred. That makes it sad to
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Persistence: What I’m Learning By Letting Go
Learning Persistence Eighty-nine days ago, I began a personal challenge to do 365 days of letting go. One of the things that I am learning is persistence. I’ve always done what I’ve said I am going to do. I enjoy ticking things off my to do list. But when the reward is a long way
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How The Need to Know Is Blocking Your Growth
Do You Have the “Need To Know” Itis? I call the act of blocking forward movement with too many questions the “Need to Know” Itis. Let’s take a look at this Buddhist story to see what I mean. The Poisoned Arrow A man is wounded by a poisoned arrow. His family calls for a doctor,
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Are You Standing In The Way of Your Healing?
Are You Standing in the Way of Your Healing? I’ve spent my career helping people who are “hard-to-help.” Are you one of them? Are you standing in the way of your healing? You Are In Charge of Holding On and Letting Go Every healer can only offer remedies. The healing part is up to you.
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Best Post-Thanksgiving Hack to Get You Back on Track
Best Post-Thanksgiving Hack to Get You Back on Track If you’re like me, your routine is blown! You’ve eaten too much, been over-scheduled, and are behind on maintenance tasks like cleaning and exercise. While it may have been a great time, you really just need a post-Thankgiving hack to get you back on track. Voila!
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Why I Celebrate Thanksgiving
Why I Celebrate Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving! On a day that is about remembering hurts for some people and abstaining from gratitude, I want to share why I celebrate Thanksgiving. To help to show the benefit of celebrating Thanksgiving, let’s look at why some people are sitting it out. Atoning for Our History of Genocide It’s
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Let Go of These 5 Creativity Killers
Let Go of These 5 Creativity Killers Creativity is an under-rated intelligence. If you want to succeed and remain mentally flexible, you have to exercise this skill like you would any other. So, let’s look at these 5 creativity killers so we can let them go! Worst Creativity Killers Perfectionism. Most people who strive for
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Transforming Your Hectic Holidays
Reinvent Your Holidays Nobody goes into the holiday season saying, “I want to gain ten pounds, go massively into debt, become exhausted, see a bunch of people I don’t care about, and miss the whole thing because I was not present, but that’s what a lot of us do. If this is you, maybe it’s
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Letting Go of Unrequited Soul Mate Love
Is there anything worse than the unrequited soul mate love? You’ve found your person. You know you are destined to be together. You have nightly adventures together in your mind. Nothing has ever felt so sure or real. You just can’t believe he doesn’t know it. When will he wake up and realize your shared
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Reining In Your Emotional Reactivity
All humans are emotional. We just don’t all show it in the same way. If you have a quick, dramatic outbursts or shifts in emotions that can be overwhelming, we call that “reactive.” What a lot of people don’t understand about emotional reactivity is that it’s not a choice. It’s a trigger that fires and
