IN PROCESS

Being too busy has become the norm for most people. It’s become so common that it’s the knee jerk reaction many of us have when someone asks us how we’re doing. It’s almost as if we’re wearing busyness around like a badge of honor and the busier we are the better we get to feel […]

As a high-achieving woman, you have a lot on your plate. Between all the demands placed on you from all the roles you play, it can be easy to lose sight of what’s truly important to you. But after spending years taking care of everyone else and making sure everyone else was happy, you know […]

Have you spent decades putting everyone’s needs before your own? Have you focused on doing everything possible to make sure everyone else is happy? Are you noticing that you’re feeling stressed, overwhelmed, trapped, and taken advantage of? If so, you’ve likely lost the connection to who you really are because your identity has been fused […]

Most people think they have to change careers, change their husbands, move, have a different body, or have more money to have a life they love. But that’s because we’ve been sold a lie. We’ve been taught that if we aren’t happy, we can get or buy happiness by changing our circumstances. And that just […]

Our brains love to find patterns and ways of organizing information and making sense of it. So of course it would be common for us to create boxes and put ourselves in them. We do this to ourselves and we do this to other people too, right? We tell ourselves we’re this, which means we […]

Something hit differently for me when I turned 40. I felt like I was letting go of needing things to be a certain way and I started to get more curious about what I wanted moving forward. I felt like I was opening myself up to a whole new chapter of life – one that […]

Eight years ago, when I turned 37, something changed inside me. It felt like it happened overnight but if I look back with a bird’s eye view, things had been stirring inside me for years before I really gave myself permission to notice them. Can you relate to this? If so, hang tight for a […]

Most people think other people or things create how they feel. During the holidays they might think their family or all the events they have scheduled make them stressed. But that just isn’t true. Let’s dive into what is true so you know how to enjoy the holidays this year. As I said, most people […]

I’ve been talking with so many friends lately about how to manage the holiday stress. The other day I was talking with a friend I haven’t seen in a long time. We talked about so many things but I can’t help but continue to come back to this one statement she said. She said she […]

Trying to make sure everyone liked me was my kryptonite for most of my life. I’m embarrassed to even admit that, but it’s true. I was being nice no matter how I was treated. I was smiling even when I wasn’t feeling happy. I was saying yes even when I didn’t want to. This is […]