Is the Emotion You’re Feeling Yours?
What happens when you get accosted by an emotion that doesn’t feel good – a negative emotion? How do you know if that emotion is your own or if it’s something that you picked up from someone else. I recently experienced this and after chatting with others about it, I realized it happens all the […]
What to do when you have a shitty day
What do you do when you have a shitty day? When something happens that triggers an emotion inside you and you can’t get a handle on it; your whole body contracts and you feel it in your chest or your head or your core. It threatens to overtake you and suck you down with it. […]
Bad advice for women over 40
There is a lot of pressure on women – and I get that some of it is self imposed, but some of it comes from society, family, work, friends, the media… When I turned 40 recently I found myself really struggling. I don’t know what exactly made me freak out but it had something to […]
What’s worse than being afraid to say what you want?
So often women are afraid to really ask for what they want even though that’s the number one way to thrive in life. Not only that, we’re afraid to figure out what it is we want in the first place. It’s vulnerable and can be scary. It also creates a divide – people who support […]
What Is Self Love and How Do You Do It?
“What does self love mean? How do you do it? Spa treatments?” my client asked me once. If you’re not used to having a self love practice or are new to the idea of it, it can feel really mysterious and vast. First, let’s separate self love and pleasure. Loving yourself can lead to feelings […]
How to change body habits and thrive in your 40s and beyond
The brilliance of our unconscious mind and body relationship is that once it learns something we no longer need to think about how to do it, the motions become second nature. The same goes for thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. Do you remember what it was like learning to tie your shoes? Or learning to drive? […]
Why you can’t get to self love through self judgement
You can’t get to self love through self judgement. At some point, women decided that to love themselves, first, they need to fix themselves. I call bullshit! That’s not true! You can’t judge yourself, berate yourself, or hate yourself enough to come out the other side in love with yourself! I know because I’ve tried. Have […]
Tips to make choices and decisions easier
What do you feel when you hear the word CHOICE? Or the word DECIDE? What does your mind immediately jump to? For me those two words used to conjure up fear, uncertainty, feeling incapable, feeling trapped. Choices and decisions were very hard for me to make, too, because of a deep seated belief that nothing I […]
How to build self trust
On a scale of 1 – 10, how much do you figure you trust yourself?(1= not at all, 10=completely) I’ll be honest, I used to be on the very bottom of that scale. Sometimes even on the negative side! And it’s because I used thing trust was a feeling. Sometimes I would have it and […]
How to stop emotional venting
Oh, this was one of those conversations. I was standing in line waiting to pay for my groceries listening to a stranger vent, completely incensed at something that had happened to her that day. She proceeded to tell me all about the dramas going on in people’s lives and how it’s the same as before, […]