Do you have old friends that if you met in present time you probably would not become friends? Do you stay friends with them even though you no longer have much in common other than your past? When I was in the depths of my fertility struggle and my girlfriend was...
Do you have someone in your life that needs fixing, that could really really use your help? That if they listened to you and just did what you said . . . they would feel better? As I typed that out, I knew it sounded a bit silly, but this is what I was doing with my...
I can’t believe we are fast approaching another holiday season and before you know it will be 2019. Soon we will begin seeing all the year-end lists of top movies, music, books, podcasts and we will start to hear people talk about their New Year’s resolutions. This...
Do you hear that inner voice, that whisper? Maybe it’s more of a gut feeling, a vibe, a repetitive thought or vision? Whichever it is, it’s more than likely your intuition communicating with you - that inner knowing we all have because nobody knows you better than...
I was in Arizona this past month to celebrate my niece’s baby shower. My sister did a great job getting everything organized. I would be lying if I said there wasn’t a twinge of sadness that came up for me, but I felt like I was able to acknowledge it, feel it and let...
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’m in the middle of writing a book. It is something I’ve started and stopped many times. I feel like it's time to complete it. As I was writing, it struck me how far I have come regarding my fertility journey. If you don’t know, I don’t have children. I wanted to...
You may be asking to forgive who? For what? I believe that forgiveness is a powerful practice to incorporate into your life. Let me explain. Sometimes we do or say things that we want to be forgiven for - but instead, we push it aside and tell ourselves it is no big...
Hi, my name is Monica and I am still in recovery from being a people-pleaser. Lately, I’ve been feeling like my people-pleasing tendencies are coming back to the surface. At first, I got a little annoyed with myself. I thought, “Why is this coming back up? I thought I...
The quick answer is no. However, have you been in a situation where you were friends with someone because - you thought you “should” or because you had mutual friends or you didn’t want to be rude - but if you were being honest with yourself you didn’t feel a...