What kind of year was 2017 for you? Great? Challenging? A Mixed bag? Whatever it was, take some time now to watch my Top 10 Videos of 2017. I promise they’ll help you start a stress-free new year! Top Ten Videos for a Stress-Free New Year! [clickToTweet tweet=”Check out my Top 10 Videos of 2017! […]
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Doing positive affirmations for 30 seconds in the morning can’t possibly counter the 24 hours of self-berating most of us do. We are so damn hard on ourselves. Positive Affirmations Sometimes Don’t Work We are so pervasively hard on ourselves that we don’t even notice the thoughts as negative self-judgments, we just think of them
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Forgiveness underrated. Failure is an epidemic. Do you know why? It’s not because people are inadequate. It’s because they think they are. We have some impossible standards that we measure ourselves against. And this has us beating ourselves up, blaming ourselves, and noticing our deficits any chance we get. I myself felt like a total
Have compassion Let Go of Anger There are many reasons we don’t want to feel anger, but it usually leads back to shame and fear. For a woman that consulted me, it was both. She felt anger-shame since from a young age she learned that she was “not allowed to be angry.” This turned into a
Do you wonder how to get off antidepressants? There are many reasons to use antidepressants. Read about them here: Deciding to drug. If they are benefitting you, and you are happy, stay the course. There is nothing weak about feeling depressed, anxious or taking medicine. Reasons to get off antidepressants There are also many reasons
Time to prioritize your relationships. “Relationships are hard work.” We hear this over and over. But what does it mean besides conjuring fear and dread? Or worse, hopelessness for someone who feels she is not good enough. When fear is involved your relationships are VERY hard work. Fear is exhausting, unpredictable and can get in
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I said, Letting go like water off a duck’s back” to a client the other day, and she gave me that “What’s-off-who’s-now?” look. Ever reference a cliché to a teenager and they have no idea what you are talking about? I did not win any cool-to-a-teenager points. I guess it would sound silly if you had
Every morning for lent I have been sitting with a candle for ten minutes. (Come join me on Facebook, where I share my daily reflections.) Our spiritual community encourages us to do this every morning during advent, to open our heart to what might come. Fr. Jim encourages us to do three practices during advent:
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How do I love thee, let me count the ways 1. Make time for yourself to lie down and connect with the earth Whether I can be outside or not, lying down supine on the earth is my favorite position to forgive. To let everything go, I just imagine it falling into the earth. If
By definition, affirmation is “a declaration that something is true.” And also known as “a form of prayer that focuses on a positive outcome.” So how do you write an affirmation that works? But it is not as simple as looking in the mirror and saying “I love you, you are the greatest!” as positive psychology would