
Relationships Don’t Work: What’s Wrong With Me?
What’s wrong with me? Do I have to change who I am to make my relationship work?! (more…)
What’s wrong with me? Do I have to change who I am to make my relationship work?! (more…)
Do you hear yourself asking how you can be happy during the holidays? When someone asks you “how would you like your life to be different,” do you answer, “I wish I was happy”? Trust me, you’re not alone. And forget about trying to be HAPPY during the holidays, the most wonderful(ly stressful) time of the year. There is SO MUCH TO DO and prepare for. Presents to buy, lists to make, cookies to bake, the tree to decorate, the lights in the yard, keeping up with the neighbors, visiting god-forsaken relatives that you purposefully avoid the rest of the year to keep your sanity. Someone told me that they purposefully would WORK on the holidays to avoid the stress and family! (more…)
Don’t just say I am sorry … I had the opportunity to be in relationship with 3 (of the most important in my life) people yesterday who “let me down.”
Do you want to learn how to be happy? The first thing is coming out of denial. Finding greater love for myself created a lot of clarity. That’s the trouble with personal work and coming out of denial. (more…)
You don’t know how to deal with rejection? We spend a lot of time worrying about rejection. Why? In tribal culture, if we were rejected by our tribe, it literally meant we would be alone in the wilderness. The chance of surviving this is slim to none. And sometimes, humans make no sense. Sometimes, one is threatened by another, and the one in the “power” position expels the other for whatever reason. Learn more about on how to deal with rejection and the four key actions you want to take to overcome it. (more…)
Do you want to learn how to say no? I’ve been working on my “NO!” for 11 years. I remember when a therapist told me, “you don’t have to go back home to St Louis just because your parents are asking you to come home for the holiday.” I remember looking at her like, “WHAT?” It was the FIRST time someone had given me PERMISSION to say NO to my parents and it was 2008. I was 31 years old. I was married with 2 kids. And I was introduced to saying NO to my parents. (more…)