Stress to Strength Adventure Series (SSAS) No. 1
My nephew Kevin and wife (after today) Brooke – sweethearts!
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Depression? Or Temporary Derail?
Tools for the Many Things that Knock Us Off Our Game CHALLENGES ARE INEVITABLE ON THE PATH TO MEANING-MAKING Recently a client had one of those days where she woke up and wanted to stay under the covers. A challenging area of her life was asking for more attention and healing. Great! Growth! Yet it…
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Build Intuition Accuracy with Two Practices
Building intuition accuracy takes practice. Here are two practices that can help. Intuitive wisdom does come from a nonlogical part of you. Usually, that logical side is the default and a much more comfortable way of understanding the world. The logical side of the mind is important, no doubt. Yet the emotional side of the…
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Book Review: The Summit Mindset, Miller and Moore
Winning the Battle of You versus You, Scott Miller, and James C. Moore The cycles of growth in life don’t let up, and it can make you wonder what gets in the way of personal and business success. The subtitle names a challenge that many entrepreneurs encounter – how you can get in your own…
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MH Hack – Thought Antidotes
Thoughts are a gold mine for creating your new life. But they can also derail you. How do you use them well? So many thoughts – so many tools (Byron Katie, CBT, Marc Allen…) Yes, you can reframe with CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) in 3 steps often.– Name the thought and the feeling– Ask it…
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What’s Good Fit Coping? A Grandfather’s Uvalde Reaction
Please cast an occasional blessing to the therapists you know. As the numbers of those seeking therapy rise, often it’s in these rooms and these professionals’ hearts that people yes, go there. You can talk about events that stop you in your tracks. Like the Uvalde shooting last week. This article covers stress and a…
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What’s Your Stress Level? 4 Easy Science-backed Ways to Stay Abreast of Stress
WHY RATE STRESS? Life is never stress-free. Even good things – marriage, graduations, vacations – can bring on pressure and raise stress levels. Super challenging events – say, 2 or 3 in a row – have been linked to developing major health problems. For many reasons, keeping abreast of your stress – being proactive in…
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What if Eckhart had therapy tools?
Listening to a YouTube this week from Eckhart Tolle, I was struck by his description of his debilitating depression. As a boy of 6, he had suicidal ideation – thinking that if worst came to worst, he could jump off the scaffolding that was alongside his 4-story building during a remodeling effort. Whoa! The depression…
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Be They Dragons at the Gate of your Creative and Soul Projects?
When it comes to soul creativity projects, I am not a complete slouch. I completed a music CD last year. I have created enlightened comedy characters that people prefer to my own company. Yet, though I had wrestled a weekly slot labeled “creative writing” into the schedule, momentum eluded me. Things often took over. I…
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Release & Reinvention for Empaths: 4 Points to Enhance Next Year
Planning and goal setting can be a major challenge for empaths yet so worthwhile. Sometimes you grind away at goals, and they don’t happen. Other times they seem to manifest effortlessly. What up with that? THE WAY IT IS WITH GOALS / THIS LIFE WALK ON EARTH FOR EMPATHS AND THE LIKE A lot goes…
