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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
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How Cultivating Humility Can Make You a Better Person
In an age of: speak up; stand strong; stand out; go big; play to win, and succeed at any cost, cultivating humility may seem like a liability. However, cultivating humility can make you a better person. To wrap your head around that, let’s take a look at what it means to have humility. The word
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How to Avoid Death By Small Disappointments
Most people don’t lose the light in their eyes in one day. It’s more of a death by small disappointments. Little by little, life leaks out in a drip, drip, drip of unnoticed little things. It’s a huge void by the time it’s noticed. Sound familiar? Here’s How To Stop It Do something that makes
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Why You Need More Than Willpower to Thrive
Cultivate Healthy Habits Kicking Yourself For Being Weak? “Just do it” makes a good slogan to sell workout gear, but it’s just not that realistic for most of us. The Brain is Lazy First off, the brain is lazy. Willpower works in the short term and early in the day, but when the brain gets
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Tackling Your Pile of Stuff Like a Boss!
Start and End at Zero It’s fall, time to let go. And today I am tackling a pile of stuff that has gotten out of hand. My goal is always to start and end the day at zero, meaning that I start with a clean slate and forgive, release, clean before going to bed. But
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Why Some People Find Healing a Challenge
Are You Blocking Your Success? It’s funny because I’ve been in the trauma treatment business over twenty years. As far back as when I was an intern, I was dumped on and given the “hard-to-help,” so called “treatment resistant” clients, but those weren’t the clients who had a hard time changing. No, they just weren’t
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How to Let Go of Negative Emotions Before You Explode
Pst! You won’t explode Feeling Your Feels I know it feels like feelings will overwhelm you, but trust me. They won’t. The nature of energy is to flow Everything obeys the laws of nature. Emotions are just energy. Unless obstructed, energy flows. If you open the gates, what’s inside will come out until there is
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Letting Go of the Toxic Warrior Spirit
Honor Our Warriors On Veterans Day, I give gratitude to our warriors for going off to far away lands, living in inhospitable conditions, and sacrificing their lives for our safety and freedom. If you cherish your freedom, lifestyle, and credit them for attaining and sustaining that, please do the same today and always. How to
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Are You Seeing Your Parents Realistically?
Growing Up Means Realizing Your Parents Are Flawed When working with people to help them let go of childhood issues, it is common to get new insight that changes the way we see our parents. We have to incorporate this new information in order to move forward. When that proves challenging, it can be a
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What You Don’t Know About Loneliness, But Should
The Epidemic of Loneliness Many of societies’ problems can be traced back to loneliness addiction – substance abuse, eatingdepressionprostitutionthe hook up culturetransactional relationships All of these things, and many more, happen because we all just want to be seen and experience the intimacy of belonging. When we can’t get what we want, we either find