Self-Care Habits for Wellbeing in Good Times and Bad Using your happy days to prepare for your hard days seems like a waste of energy, right? But it’s when the seas are calm, and things are going well that you can build a sturdy life raft to get through the storms. People shutter the windows and prepare their home before the storm to ride it out as safely as possible with as little damage as possible. Not that you should be waiting for doom, but let’s be real, life happens.…
What to Do Instead of New Year’s Resolution Here we are at the start of a brand-new spanking year! It’s the idea of a “fresh start” and an opportunity to do things better than you’ve done before that make setting new year’s resolutions seem so appealing… but I’m going to tell you not to, why not to, and what to do instead of new year’s resolutions this year. First, the truth. New year’s resolutions don’t usually work. You know I’m a positive glass-half-full kind of gal, but I’ve got to…
How to Stop Overwhelming Yourself Keep it Simple These last few weeks I’ve been feeling intense, heavy energy. Maybe it’s partly the pressures of the holiday season closing in, maybe it’s partly the melancholy I feel every December – or maybe it’s something bigger and beyond me – like how complicated and overwhelming we’ve designed our lives to be. If you’re feeling a similar heaviness in your energy that is showing up as feeling fatigued, less motivated than usual, maybe not sleeping well at night – and you know you’re…
With less than 30 days left in the year, it’s time to get into gear to end this year strong and move into 2022 feeling more empowered. Maybe you made resolutions at the start of the year that haven’t quite held up, but those goals are still on your priority list. Things like improving your health, getting better sleep, improving your finances, are big over-arching goals and sometimes it’s harder to achieve those big goals because they’re too general and seem impossible. So, in these last days of the year,…
Gratitude Daily Practice – 3 Simple Suggestions Thanksgiving Day is celebrated this Thursday in the U.S., but I think giving thanks should really be a daily practice. A gratitude habit can help you live more mindfully and make a difference in your long-term happiness. 3 Ways to Practice Gratitude in Your Daily Life 1. Journal gratitude. One of the easiest, simplest way to make thanks giving a daily part of your life is by using a journal. It doesn’t need to be fancy, a simple notebook or even scrap paper…
The Role in Life that I Am Playing Now and My Attachment to It You are not who you think you are. Let’s touch on the roles in life that you are currently playing, your attachment to them, and how they shape your identity and influence your perceived purpose. We start out in this lifetime with our first and life-long role of daughter or son and in many cases, sibling. Then we move into assuming additional roles throughout our lifetime such as romantic partner, friend, cancer survivor, neighbor, spouse, parent,…
