Welcome to the season of goal setting and self-flagellation! I stopped setting New Year goals years ago, because I always started off the year feeling like a failure. I am not alone. Research has shown that less than 25% of people are still keeping their goals by the end of January. Worse, only 8% of [...]
Have you ever had thoughts that just keep repeating, and repeating…and repeating? You try to stop them. You try to distract yourself, yet they just keep looping. - Nope. Me neither. (Oh, how I wish that were true.) If you are like most (read all) humans, you sometimes have thoughts that just won’t go away. [...]
This month I am offering an interview I did with Dolores Hirschmann on Clarity TV. I LOVED doing it and I’m excited to share it with you! I tell my story of the event that set me on my path to self-love--when I learned to move from victim to choosing. I also share: What to [...]
We all blame. As Brene Brown says, “Blame is the discharging of discomfort and pain.” When mistakes are made, our first response is to try to find whose fault it is. A natural response, but not helpful. Here is an entertaining (less than 4 minute) video on blaming by the brilliant Brene Brown. Watch it—you [...]
I recently made a big mistake; I spammed over 5000 people. It was not one of my finest moments, but it was a mistake—I didn’t start out the day deciding I wanted to piss off a bunch of people I didn’t know. When I realized what happened I didn’t respond perfectly (what a surprise.) I [...]
Join me as I present Everyday Love: Tools for Lowering Stress at the upcoming Giving Care Taking Care Conference. Come and learn easy to remember tools to reduce worry, quiet your mind, shift your attitude and make feelings more manageable. There will even be time to practice the techniques during the workshop. I hope [...]
Do you ever feel more stressed than is comfortable? Are you, like me, on the search for tools to help reduce stress? If you answered no to those questions, please contact me, I really, really want to know what you know! I just finished my book and am in the process of expanding my business, [...]
I was reading a fabulous book by my friend and colleague Rucsandra Mitrea called You Don't Have to Live in Pain: Five Strategies to Help Reduce Your Chronic Pain Right Now. Her book offers practical tools to shift your thinking about chronic pain so you can help the healing process. Personally, I think it’s a good book to [...]
Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite topic—Fear. More precisely, I want to give you a helpful tool to be with fear without it feeling overwhelming. I was talking about the power of fear with a friend and colleague I was visiting recently, and she practically jumped up and down as she handed me Tim Ferriss’ book [...]
