- How Coaching Helps You Break the Perfectionism Cycle
Perfectionism often manifests as comparison, self-doubt, and avoidance, hindering enjoyment and fulfillment. The author shares personal anecdotes about overcoming these behaviors through coaching, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness and embracing imperfections. By transforming emotional responses, one can gain confidence and empowerment, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling life.
- Stop Editing Your Life and Start Authentically Living
The content emphasizes the importance of living authentically without self-editing. It highlights how societal conditioning leads to overthinking and performance-based living, causing individuals to lose touch with their true selves. The author, Cam, encourages embracing vulnerability, authenticity, and personal choice to break free from self-imposed limitations and live an unedited life.
- Self-Forgiveness: Stop Punishing Yourself and Let Go of Guilt
The post discusses the struggle of self-punishment and the importance of self-forgiveness for sensitive individuals. It highlights that holding onto guilt hinders personal growth and suggests an exercise for recognizing mistakes, acknowledging their impact, and finding closure. Ultimately, it encourages readers to let go of past errors and embrace self-compassion.
- Unnecessary Pain: How Highly Sensitive People Can Stop Fighting With Reality
The post discusses how highly sensitive people (HSPs) can recognize and manage unnecessary emotional suffering by accepting reality instead of resisting it. It emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between controllable and uncontrollable factors, letting go of “shoulds,” and shifting expectations to simply experiencing life. Coaching can help HSPs navigate these challenges effectively.
- The Highly Sensitive People-Pleaser’s Guide to Authentic Connections
The article explores the experiences of highly sensitive people in social interactions, particularly the anxiety of meeting new individuals. It emphasizes the importance of shifting focus from seeking approval to recognizing personal preferences and boundaries. Authenticity and mutual respect in relationships are vital for emotional well-being, allowing sensitive individuals to thrive without compromising their true selves.
- HSP Goal Setting: Why Spring Is the Best Time for Sensitive People to Start Achieving Goals
This guide explores how highly sensitive people (HSPs) can effectively set and achieve goals, especially in spring. It discusses the challenges HSPs face in January, the energy boost spring provides, and ways to align goals with personal values. Techniques like mental rehearsal and sensory engagement are emphasized, along with seeking appropriate support.
- Coaching vs Therapy: Managing Depression & Anxiety as an Highly Sensitive Person
After six months of silence, the author shares their profound journey through severe depression and anxiety, emphasizing the importance of understanding the distinction between coaching and therapy. Both support systems are essential for healing and growth, particularly for highly sensitive individuals. The narrative highlights resilience, support, and the necessity of advocacy in mental health.
- Long-Term vs Short-Term Resilience: Navigating Life’s Challenges with Sensitivity
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) face unique challenges requiring both short-term and long-term resilience. Long-term resilience, akin to a marathon, involves persistence and recommitment to goals, while short-term resilience aids in daily stress management. HSPs can build resilience by setting meaningful goals, practicing mindfulness, and creating sensory-friendly environments. Balancing sensitivity with resilience allows for a more fulfilling life.
- Shining Bright: Embracing Your Worth as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
The content discusses the experience of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and addresses common concerns HSPs face, such as feeling misunderstood and questioning their worth. It emphasizes the inherent worth and lovability of HSPs, provides strategies for self-validation, and encourages embracing sensitivity as a strength. The conclusion affirms the unique value and brightness of HSPs.
- Tolerance vs Acceptance: Transforming Relationships and Self
Tolerance and acceptance may seem similar, but they have crucial differences. While tolerance involves enduring differences without embracing them, acceptance goes further by recognizing and embracing realities without trying to change them. Moving from tolerance to acceptance in relationships and towards oneself can lead to deeper connections, personal growth, and a more inclusive society.
- Empathy Fatigue & Overload
This content discusses empathy fatigue and overwhelm experienced by highly sensitive individuals, providing personal reflections and strategies for managing emotions and setting boundaries. It explores the difference between being empathic and empathetic, emotional projection, pitfalls of taking on others’ emotions, and the importance of celebrating progress while balancing empathy with boundaries.
- Speaking & Living Your Truth as a Highly Sensitive Person
Highly sensitive people often struggle with speaking their truth, leading to discomfort and pressure. Avoiding tough conversations can result in negative consequences and resentment. However, building awareness, improving communication, and embracing vulnerability can create connections and relieve pressure. By managing emotions without judgment and communicating authentically, HSPs can thrive and create the life they desire.
- Understanding Emotional Complexity & Competing Desires: Strategies for Self-Compassion
Emotions are complex and often contradictory, yet it’s normal to feel conflicting emotions simultaneously. It’s crucial to embrace emotional complexity without judgment and practice self-compassion. Overcoming guilt for conflicting desires and communicating openly are essential. Recognizing and accepting all emotions without judgment is key to emotional well-being. By embracing this, one can develop greater self-acceptance and resilience.
- Feeling Behind in Life
Many highly sensitive people feel behind due to societal expectations and self-sabotaging behaviors influenced by social conditioning. Overcoming this involves acknowledging influences, challenging beliefs, and embracing self-compassion. Cultivating acceptance and surrounding oneself with supportive individuals can shift the mindset from inadequacy to empowerment. The key is to focus on one’s unique journey and values.
- The Triple-A Guide to Overcoming Buffering and Procrastination
The post discusses the concept of “buffering” as a way to avoid emotions and tasks. It introduces the Triple-A approach: Awareness, Acceptance, and Application. Awareness involves recognizing repetitive emotions, while Acceptance involves acknowledging and questioning thoughts that were handed to us. Application involves intentionally handling thoughts and emotions through repetition and experimentation for positive change.
- Unleash Your Potential: Creating Positive Change Starts with You
Highly sensitive people (HSPs) can embrace positive change by understanding neuroplasticity and rewiring their brains to overcome resistance. Recognizing and regulating fears and setbacks is crucial. Embracing new experiences and cultivating a growth mindset supports brain growth. Programs like “My Sensitive Self” provide guidance for HSPs to improve mental well-being and take proactive steps towards positive change.
- Where to Start to Change Your Self-Concept: HSP Guide to Building Awareness
This content emphasizes the importance of awareness, mindfulness, and self-coaching for mental well-being, especially for highly sensitive people (HSPs). Thought downloads, a form of journaling without censorship, and self-coaching techniques are highlighted as ways to identify and challenge limiting beliefs, leading to emotional regulation and improved self-perception. Mindfulness, such as intentional breathing and sensory awareness, is recommended for cultivating present-moment awareness. Overall, the content advocates for conscious awareness as a means to take control of mental well-being and make positive changes.
- Embracing Your Emotional Landscape: Insights for Highly Sensitive People
Highly sensitive individuals (HSPs) often struggle with societal judgment around their emotions. Understanding the connection between thoughts and emotions is crucial for HSPs. Emotional avoidance leads to negative effects on mental well-being. Mindfulness, grounding techniques, and healthy emotional expression are essential strategies. Embracing emotional vulnerability and seeking support when needed are key steps toward emotional mastery for HSPs.
- Navigating High Sensitivity: Understanding the Impact on Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a perfect time to discuss the impact of sensitivity on mental health. Understanding our own sensitivity is crucial for managing mental well-being. Highly sensitive people experience deep processing, overstimulation, emotional responsiveness, and sensitivity to subtleties. Recognizing these traits can lead to better self-care and relationship navigation, ultimately benefiting mental health. If sensitivity is causing mental health struggles, seeking professional help is important to reframe sensitivity as a gift.
- Unlocking Success as a Highly Sensitive Person: Embracing the Six C’s
Cam Nichols, a Life Coach, shares the Six C’s of Success for highly sensitive individuals. These include celebration, consistency, connection, creation, courage, and compassion. Embracing authenticity and self-compassion, nurturing meaningful connections, and celebrating every victory are highlighted as essential for personal success.
- HSP Goal Setting
Goal Setting for HSPs looks different than what you’re probably used to… As we step into 2024, I’ve been reflecting on the goals many people…
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- Transform “Being a Burden” into Being a Brilliant-Sensitive-Magical-Badass!
check out the audio version on the “Sassy, Soulful, & Sensitive” podcast You know that feeling you get when you’re beating yourself up and putting…
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- Good Enough Yet?
Prefer an audio version? Check out the corresponding Sassy, Soulful, & Sensitive podcast episode! Enough is Enough of “Enough!” I want to have a heart-to-heart.…
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- Surviving Small-Talk: Do you have the right tools?
Imagine going into a room full of 50 strangers with the task of making “small-talk” for several hours 🤢. For introverts, empaths, and highly sensitive…
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- Core Values: The Soul’s North Star 🌟, Compass 🧭, & Natural Filter 🌿
Imagine living a life where you make decisions with unwavering clarity and confidence, a life where you honor your true self, unapologetically. Before we dive…
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- Increasing Emotional Capacity
Emotions… they’re the kaleidoscope of life, the hues that paint our experiences with vibrancy and depth. I’m here to remind you that emotions are the…
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- 💸 New pricing to make coaching more accessible
Hello, my beautiful friend! I hope this email finds you well! I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the world and how I want…
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- 🌟Confidence: The Fruit of Practiced Courage🌟
Confidence can seem elusive, especially for us highly sensitive souls. The overwhelming world and self-doubt can cloud our minds. But here’s the beautiful truth: Confidence…
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- Depression and Anxiety: Unmasking these PESKY and VERY REAL Beasts
Let’s have a real and raw conversation about something that matters deeply to- and affects many of us: depression and anxiety. This is especially important…
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- Handling Criticism
Ever had one of those moments when a simple comment felt like a punch to your gut? Picture this: I posted in an HSP Facebook group,…
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- There’s a Direct Correlation Between Confidence and THIS.
TLTR (Too Long To Read–if you had to look it up like my old-generation ass did 😂): Today, I want to dive into something that…
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- The Miracle and Magic of Mindfulness
How the power of being present affects the 3 key problem areas of your life Do you ever feel robbed of joy? Like, it used…
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- Pizza🍕, sushi🍣, and weather patterns🌩? 🤷🏼♂️ Stories about putting pressure on ourselves.
How is your journey of remembering your true identity going? Are you recognizing more and more the powerful force of nature that you are? I…
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- Unlock Your Potential with the Power of Paradoxes by Embracing the “Sometimes Principle”
Hey, you beautiful magical creature you, Do you ever feel like you’re trapped in an exhausting cycle of bouncing from one extreme to another? One…
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- Unleashing Your Shadows: The Secret Weapon to your Unique Success
Today, I want to talk about something that often gets AVOIDED but holds incredible transformative power: EMBRACING YOUR SHADOWS AND WEAKNESSES. I just created a…
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- You’ll Never Believe What Happened To Me! Is This My Actual Life?
Hey there, my fellow sensitive soul! Let me tell you a little story about a recent party I went to. It was at a loud,…
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- Love Personality Quizzes?
Take the quiz to: 👉🏼 find out your primary element/HSP energy type ⛰🌪🔥🌊✨💪🏼 discover your secret strength 🔮 delve into your intuitive style 💢 learn…
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- Stop Hiding and Unleash Your True Colors to Get What You Really Want
Where in your life are you hiding and not allowing yourself to be seen? As someone who’s been on my email list for a while,…
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- Defining Success
Hello, hello, my beautiful friends! It’s great to be here with you. Today, let’s talk about success, and more specifically, defining success. As Maya Angelou…
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- The REAL reason you don’t speak up
I’ve been thinking… and experimenting… and failing… and SUCCEEDING! As I’m writing this, I totally have a vulnerability hangover (Thanks to Brene Brown and giving…
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- 5 Signs You May Be A Sensitive Person (and why it’s a good thing!)
Being a highly sensitive person can be exhausting AND it can be THE MOST BEAUTIFUL thing! We get to experience humanity on a completely micro-to-macro level. Click here to read more.
- Unlocking Your Superpowers: Embrace Your Sensitivity and Thrive!
Learning how to trust your intuition and navigate your energy and emotional cycles is what allows you to create the anchor of safety you need to confidently express your unique voice and advocate for your wants and needs. This is how you build the incredible and meaningful relationships you want. This is how you create a fulfilling life that aligns with who you really are so you can naturally thrive!
- What It Takes To Be Lovable
With Valentine’s day just around the corner, let’s talk about LOVABILITY–your ability to love yourself; love others; and be loved in return. Everyone is worthy…
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- 📢 Release Day is FINALLY HERE
I have a favor to ask… PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE listen to this first batch of podcasts and share with other introverts, empaths, and HSPs in…
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- Sneaky Signs of Self-Sabotage & A Quick and Easy Hack to Pull Out Of It
I’m always surprised when I recognize I’m self-sabotaging. My brain is so sneaky at coming up with new ways or angles. Why do we self-sabotage?…
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- Recognizing YOUR Importance
You recognize you’re a unique individual. But do you recognize how important YOU and your uniqueness actually are and the impact your existence and voice…
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- Am I too late to give you a gift?
I hope you enjoyed your holidays!! I was pretty silent as I decided to take some time off and focus on planning out more of…
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- Time to Adjust Your Expectations
Do you tend to have really high expectations for yourself? Sometimes they are so high it overwhelms you–you start to get anxiety about messing up,…
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- Why Holding Yourself Accountable is a MISTAKE
Yup, I said it. I just finished teaching a class for The Life Coach School on accountability and I wanted to share it with you…
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- Can you even hear yourself screaming in unsettled and subtle agony?
The screaming inside yourself doesn’t always feel or sound like screaming at all. Sometimes it’s a quiet and subtle unsettled feeling. Other times it’s a…
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- It’s YOUR time to claim FREEDOM!
TAKE NOTE: I was recently informed that some emails were going directly to JUNK/SPAM folder (especially for gmail). If you have registered for Fu⊄k the…
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- Always TIRED? 😪 Read Me.
Being a human can be exhausting. Other people and professionals will tell you that you’re tired because of your sleep cycle, screen time, or your…
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- 3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Cancelling Plans
You made plans with some friends weeks ago. The day has arrived and you have a million thoughts running through your head. It’s hard to…
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- The only things left were guilt, shame, and blame.
Once upon a time… There was a happy, energetic, and emotional child. They were told they were loud. Then they were told they were too…
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- Fu⊄k the Formula!!
I have spent the majority of my life following the formula and abiding by the rules–getting good grades in school, attending church, going to college,…
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- Are you doing things you don’t want to do? 😟
Have you ever gone along with something even though you didn’t actually want to do it? Why didn’t you speak up for what you wanted?…
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- “I fit in, but I don’t belong.”
Are you the kind of person who adapts easily to others? You can fit in and get along with almost anybody (as long as you…
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- It’s time to shine! And you’re the perfect fit 🌟
If you’ve been wanting more control in your life or just to feel better about yourself more often, listen up! I have some very exciting…
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- Impostor Alert!!
I’ve coached students, stay-at-home moms, doctors, coaches, lawyers, scientific researchers, computer technicians, teachers, you name it! Do you know what they all have in common?…
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- It’s about YOU and your happiness, let them worry about their own
Why is setting boundaries so hard? There are a few common reasons: Protecting Others We take on other people’s emotions. We empathize or sympathize. We…
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- 4 Ways to Overcome Social Atrophy
Whether you consider yourself an introvert or not, the last several years of living on earth have changed us. As we continue to adapt to…
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- The experiment results are in…and I was not ready for this outcome.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned I was in the middle of an experiment. The time has come to fill you all in on what…
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- We’ve all been taught self-love wrong, and we’re miserable because of it.
What does it mean to love yourself unconditionally? Is it really possible to love yourself 100% of the time? In my personal AND professional opinion,…
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- I was terrified. So I did the only thing I could think of.
Hello, my beautiful friend! Today, I want to ask you to ponder what are you hiding from…? Oftentimes I see my clients (and let’s be…
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- How I Went From a Wreck to a Badass in 90 Seconds
Last week I attended my first ever live mastermind event. It was more incredible than I could have imagined! But I didn’t feel that way…
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- How I Ruined My Vacation…
I’ve been pretty quiet over the last month, doing a lot of self-work and discovery with one of my coaches. It’s really been the journey…
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- Learning How to Feel Better: The Best Game of Hide and Seek
Do you remember playing hide and seek as a kid? I used to LOVE it! I was in gymnastics and was petit in my younger…
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- This may ruin my credibility but…I need to be vulnerable and real.
I’m human. [GASP] I know, it’s embarrassing to even say it. The last few weeks, my brain has been screaming, “I DON’T WANT TO!” Exercise,…
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- When it’s this valuable, FREE is the best thing that could happen! 🤯 You Can Feel Better Now!
Free stuff is only good when it actually provides you with value. The stickers, keychains, etc. all just end up in the landfill. So how…
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- You want me to feel comfortable with what?!
The last two weeks have been absolutely ridiculous! Hilariously miserable AND extremely insightful and interesting. Blake (my husband) and I do a version of “dry…
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- The Ultimate Paradox: The need for good and bad?
Something I have struggled with, and that I see my clients struggling with, is this fantasy that our personalities are all-or-nothing. What I mean by…
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- Rebooting After the Holidays
Hello, my beautiful friends! I hope you all survived and thrived throughout the holiday season and are ready to step into 2022. Just a heads…
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- Your Inner Critic
“You’re not good enough.” “There is no way you could do that.” “You can’t do as well as someone else, so it’s not even worth…
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- Poking Holes in Perfectionism
Did you know that some people don’t recognize they suffer from perfectionism? I was coaching a client who is a very Type-A personality. They were…
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- Confidence and your Subconscious
Do you ever feel insecure when going out to meet a group of people because you’re afraid they’ll judge you? Or how about feeling like…
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- How To Shift When You Don’t Want To Be Thankful
In the USA, we recently celebrated Thanksgiving. To be honest, I have many mixed emotions when it comes to this celebratory traditional holiday. But we’ll…
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- When to Adopt, Adapt, or Abandon
You’re doing a project and you’re in a rut. Doing work feels like you’re banging your head against a wall. Congrats, the primitive part of…
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- I need to make a public confession…
I’m not who you think I am. I’m not Mr. Positive all the time. I’m not always as excited or engaged as I show in…
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- Halloween and the Masks We Wear
Happy Halloween, my beautiful friends! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year. I LOVE all things spooky and have been binging horror…
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- Looks can be deceiving…and so can your goals.
Looks can be deceiving….so can our ideas–especially when we’re passionate about a project, plan, etc. Honestly, it can be totally exhausting to plan everything, envision…
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- What do freezing temps and introverts have in common?
This past week in Utah has been COLD. It got down to freezing temperature. What do people who are cold do? Put on a ton…
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- What Is Your Insecurity Stopping You From Doing?
As we grow up, as humans do, we unconsciously take on thoughts and beliefs that others offer up to us. When we were bullied, abused,…
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- The Success Method
How long have you been working on your goals…and they just stay that, goals? The reason that your goals aren’t becoming accomplishments faster isn’t that…
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- Don’t Take Candy From Strangers
From a young age, we are taught what to believe. We are given baselines and guidelines on how to conduct our lives and what is…
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- Living Your Life Without A Buffer
Let’s be honest with each other…no one enjoys feeling negative emotions. It’s not that they can’t be useful or shouldn’t ever be present; but they…
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- Boundaries
What is a boundary and why should we set them? Just like we have physical boundaries of our homes (walls, windows, doors, fences, etc.), we…
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- Where The Hell Do Emotions Come From?
Why do we as humans yearn for the new house; the new relationship; or new job? Because of how we believe we will feel when…
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- How To Process Emotions–Especially Negative Ones
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been doing a LOT of coaching on how to process emotions. It all starts out the same way—someone doesn’t…
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- How To Build Trust With Yourself
Do you trust yourself? Most people will answer YES to this question (especially when they feel good); however, their behavior tells a different story. Look…
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- Listening to Yourself
Some say people who talk to themselves are crazy. I completely disagree. I think people who talk to themselves are smart. Why? Because this is…
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- Feel Bad & Get Sh!t Done
No one cares what you have to say.Nothing you say will actually help someone.No one cares about what you’re trying to build. Those sentences above…
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- Resisting Emotions
In almost all my client sessions this past week we have discussed resisting emotion and how the ego plays a role. We often think of…
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- 100% Happy?
Who started the idea that the goal of life is to be happy 100% of the time? Whoever it was, needs a loving smack on…
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- Welcome!
My goal of this blog is to provide support, perspective, tips and tricks, etc. to help you become a better leader. Whether you have the title of a leader is irrelevant. We are all the CEO of our own lives and this means we don’t have to go on this journey alone; sometimes we have to make hard decisions; do things we don’t necessarily want to do; enjoy the fruits of our labor; and always continue to develop and challenge ourselves to the next stage of our personal evolution.
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