Changing the Meaning of our Experiences

Changing the Meaning of our Experiences

What do we tell ourselves when we have an experience that we don’t want - losing a job, discovering a health issue, ending a relationship, or other changes that feel bad to us...

Why Do We Tolerate That?

Why Do We Tolerate That?

What is it that has us put up with the bad behavior of other people or the institutions we belong to? Many of us are completely asleep as it relates to this experience‘…’

Words & Music Mismatch

Words & Music Mismatch

What is it that has us believe the words that another says while ignoring the energy of those saying them? When the words and the energy don’t match, those words can’t manifest as reality. Yet, so many of us hang onto the promises of others, even when the energy of how they were delivered didn’t match.

Setting Healthy Limits

Setting Healthy Limits

What is it that keeps us from setting healthy limits and boundaries with others? Is it that we don’t know when someone has crossed the line…

When Responsibility Feels Heavy

When Responsibility Feels Heavy

What beliefs do you hold around 'responsibility'? Does responsibility mean duty and obligation? Are only 'adults' responsible? Is responsibility a burden? An honor? Are we only honorable when we take responsibility? Do you feel satisfaction after doing something 'responsible’? Does it make you a good person when you 'take responsibility' for others?

Our Wants are Innocent

Our Wants are Innocent

What if what we wanted had nothing to do with anyone else? We live on a planet with 7 billion people so that concept may be hard to understand especially when we are programmed to believe that what we want comes from others. Think of it this way, what if no one needed to do anything or be any other way for us to want what we want? 

Hidden Beliefs Reduce Choices

Hidden Beliefs Reduce Choices

Our beliefs create our reality—literally! If we don't know which beliefs are true for us, we create our lives unconsciously not understanding why we experience life's ups and downs…

Taking Our Power with Us

Taking Our Power with Us

Why do we often feel we have no power when we leave a person, job or situation? When we feel the leave-taking isn’t of our own making, we can tell ourselves and others how we were no longer wanted, made wrong in our efforts, taken advantage of, misunderstood or otherwise rejected…

Feeling Discarded

Feeling Discarded

What do we do when we feel discarded? What is the rationale we use inside to deal with this harsh experience? We often tell ourselves that we are no longer valuable when a relationship changes shape or ends‘…’

What Drives You?

What Drives You?

What is the ‘juice’ that motivates us and gets us into action? Is it the passion for something we want to experience or create, or is it the fear that something will or won’t happen? Is it the excitement of being fully alive in the moment, or the avoidance of some devastating emotion?

The Self-Care Struggle

The Self-Care Struggle

Why is it that we struggle with our self-care? What is it that has us forget to take the vitamins, give up our sleep for one more episode, skip the walk for a little more work, eat potato chips instead of the salad, and then regret our choices at the end of the day?

Nothing to Justify

Nothing to Justify

Why do we feel we need to justify ourselves to others including what we want, what we say, and how we do things? Why are we somehow required to offer an explanation to others in order to do what is best for us. . .