Grief has made another appearance. I have been noticing that almost every time I talk about my mother-in-law I feel like I could start to cry. I know what you may be thinking, it’s another case of an annoying in-law. Well, my mother-in-law was far from annoying. Yep,...
A good friend of mine called the other day. She was feeling overwhelmed by finances and wanted to discuss her options with me. As soon as she started talking I could instantly feel how heightened her energy was. I simply listened, allowing her...
The other day I was talking with a client about gratitude. We went through an exercise designed to promote thinking about what she was grateful for. She expressed how she typically resisted gratitude practices because she didn’t like to search for things to be...
How do you handle difficult emotions? Do you allow yourself to feel them, sit with them, move through them or do you ignore them and hope they will go away? Maybe you replace them with positive thoughts? I used to try and hide from mine, particularly when I was in my...
Release the need for perfection. Why? I thought perfection kept me safe. During my fertility struggle, I was striving for perfection, for my happily ever after – the husband, the white picket fence, the 2.5 kids. Each month I was not pregnant my internal negative...
I was not a very nice wife the other day. I apologized and we talked it out, but it was still bothering me. I decided to write about it, in order to process it. It was Sunday morning and I ran to the store to pick up a couple of items we were missing to make...
Have you thought about what your definition of self-care is? With what is going on in the world, it is a topic that has been coming up frequently. Many people are spending more time at home, they are working from home, not able to see their friends, extended family,...
Perfectionism is something that has been on my mind. When we are focused on things being “perfect,” it can be the death of joy, progress, and/or forward movement. It is something I have been trying to find the “perfect” way to describe. Ha! There it is again. What are...
Doesn’t everyone want to - process their emotions? I mean isn’t it important? We don’t want our feelings and emotions to get bottled up inside of us, right? Because when we do, it can cause us to experience an increase in mental and physical struggles, such as...
Recently I celebrated my birthday. My first COVID birthday, that is. It was also my first birthday after losing my dad. It was strange. I have always enjoyed celebrating my birthday. Not in a big, I need to throw a party way. For me, it is the phone call, the text...