I realized early in my self care journey that I can choose to use fear as a tool, rather than allow it to paralyze me into non-action. I can often see it as a sign that growth is around the corner, that a new opportunity exists, that where there is fear, there can be love. I don’t always choose love …
When Your Body Speaks, Listen
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche I am just at the tail-end of the cold/flu thing that is going around this winter and my mind is trying to figure out if I should press forward, jump back into my schedule and go, go, go or if I should take a few more …
Be Your Future Self
“The one constant in our lives is change.” Psychologist David Gilbert It took me a long time to grasp the idea of my Future Self. But once I did, I have embraced it with enthusiasm and regularly spend time defining, shaping and inviting my Future Self into my life. The concept was introduced to me by Life Coach Extraordinaire, Reggie …
The Truth About Happiness
“Happiness is not some fleeting feeling of joy but more a profound sense of a life well lived. A life well lived is not just full of joy and excitement but also sadness and fear and all the other emotions that make up our human existence. Happiness may mean different things to different people but overall it involves you being …
Embrace a Beginner’s Mind
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn says that the richness of present-moment experience is in the richness of life itself. Too often we let our thinking and our beliefs about what we “know” prevent us from seeing things as they really are. We tend to take the ordinary for granted and fail to grasp the extraordinariness of the ordinary. To see the richness …