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The Truth About Manifesting Your Dreams
Manifesting isn’t magic; it’s just what happens when you follow your own soul home.
So, What’s Your Story?
Are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves healthy or harmful?
The Power of Letting Go
The other side of the coin of the fear of letting go is the jubilation when we spread our wings and fly.
You’re Not Ugly, and Neither Was I
If you struggle with telling yourself a story that you’re ugly, consider changing that story. It’s painful in the extreme to think that we’re too ugly to live our best lives, yet so many of us feel this way. But that’s a prison we create with our minds…
What Does It Mean to Be Mentally Healthy?
For World Mental Health Day, let’s cultivate compassionate self-awareness for ourselves and others who struggle with staying balanced.
Is Happiness Even the Point?
Why is happiness so important, and is it, in fact, even sustainable? And if we were happy all of the time, how would we learn to surf the waves of our emotions, and to gracefully dance with our shadows?
The Danger of Letting Others Define You
When we feel that we only fit into one definition – when we believe how others define us or when we define ourselves narrowly – we lose parts of ourselves or feel that we can’t give voice to parts that don’t fit with that definition.
Shame on You! Do You Use Shame to Control Others?
Shaming others is a way we can often get people to do what we want, but is it worth it?
Acceptance Means Never Having to Say You’re Disappointed
Disappointment means we haven’t accepted that the person who disappointed us is not, in fact, us.
Working with the Good Times
When we experience low moods, it can be very difficult to do what we need to do to be succesful in life. But we can learn to use the times when we feel balanced to get done what needs to get done.
Using Values as Your Compass
When we struggle or feel lost, one easy way to ground ourselves is to use our personal values as a compass to guide our way.
A Valentine’s Day Musing
Valentine’s Day: the day of chagrin for singles and the imperfectly coupled everywhere (even when we pretend we don’t care.) How can we use this day as a reminder to generate love every day?
Self-Awareness vs “Self-Fixingness”
So often in self-help and therapy, we forget the most important step to being able to live happily with our own minds: the deep self-awareness that flows beneath judgment.
When Words Confuse Rather than Clarify
We so often use words to clarify, but what happens when more words just confuse?