Trauma changes us. Someone we trust betrays us, and we're different. Something changes from how it's always been, and we're different. A loved one leaves us or dies, and we're forever different. Whatever the trauma is, when life as we...
Self Development
Self Development
Reframing Your Mindset: A Pathway to Better Relationships and Self-Acceptance
In this fast-paced world, we often find ourselves trapped in a loop of negative thoughts and perceptions. The habit of viewing things from one rigid perspective can significantly affect our relationships, self-esteem, and overall mental...
Boundary Setting: A Personal Journey to Self-Empowerment
Growing up, the concept of setting boundaries was alien to me. I didn’t really grasp what boundaries were, nor did I understand their importance in maintaining healthy relationships and personal integrity. However, as I encountered...
Transformative Self-Care: Creating Rituals for Inner Peace
In today’s fast-paced world, the term "self-care" often conjures images of leisurely bubble baths and soothing massages. While these indulgences are enjoyable and certainly part of taking care of oneself, self-care encompasses much more....
The Path to Inner Peace: Mindfulness and Forgiveness in Self-Discovery
Two ancient but always relevant practices stand out in the journey toward a fulfilling and peaceful life: mindfulness and forgiveness. These two practices carry hope and invite us on a journey toward self-discovery, emotional healing, and...
Navigating the Guilt Maze
We all deal with guilt in life. Surprisingly, not all guilt is bad; proper 'guilt' can be healthy for us and keep us on the paths we want to travel. It's hard to navigate the guilt maze–knowing what's healthy and not and how to get the...
People Pleasing As A Safety Mechanism
In a world where acceptance often feels like a currency, people-pleasing behavior has become a common, albeit misunderstood, phenomenon. At its core, people-pleasing involves consistently prioritizing the needs and desires of others over...
The Habit of Over-Apologizing Women: Stop Saying Sorry!
Women tend to apologize for simply taking up space. Have you ever counted how many times a day you say, "I'm sorry," for something? We over-apologize, and this habit doesn't benefit us. It's a reflection of deeper societal conditioning....
How to Forgive Yourself for Past Mistakes
We all have a past and what matters is what you do with your future. Learn how to forgive yourself for past mistakes here.
Perspective Shifting With Radical Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a concept that’s often discussed but rarely understood. When we allow it to transform our perspective on a situation or person, it’s radical and can benefit us by letting anger go and growing beyond our pain. It’s no secret...
What Can You Expect From Transformational Coaching?
Transformational coaching can help different aspects of your life. So, what can you expect from this process? Find out here.
How to Find Your Purpose in This One Life We Live
We’ve only got a blip of time on this Earth. Make the most of it! Learn how to find your purpose (and how transformation coaching can help) in this article.
Victim Consciousness: Weighing What We Weigh
We weigh what we weigh…a key concept I first heard from a sponsor when I was early in my sobriety and had started attending AA. It’s a statement that impacted me then and continues to impact me now. Maybe it’s something that will impact...
Stepping Into Sovereignty: Honoring Yourself To Honor Others
When we talk about the concept of sovereignty, we may think of something political or related to government. We know that sovereignty is also a term that describes those who find honoring ourselves allows us to honor others. As we seek to...
Love: Making One Out Of Two
Love. It’s a transformational concept. Greek philosophers tell a story of humans initially being of three types–male, female, and androgynous. According to Greek legend, these were not humans as we know them today. They were...
The Different Types of Transformational Coaching and How They Help
Transformational coaching comes in many different forms, depending on how you want to transform and change yourself. Learn more here.
Don’t Let Self-Doubt Get You Stuck
Doubt is troubling. It leaves us feeling unsettled and unsure. But self-doubt can be even worse, as those feelings of uncertainty and lack of faith are in ourselves. We’re not sure we’re able enough, think well enough or feel enough, and...
Transformation: A Process You’re Worth
The word transformation may sound daunting, but the truth is that it doesn’t have to be. In fact, it’s a word that can bring you to a place of fullness and contentment with the person you are working to become. The realization that you...
How to Stop Being Your Own Worst Critic
Many people focus on their flaws instead of their successes. Discover how to stop being your own worst critic by clicking here.
7 Tips for Healing Your Inner Child
Learn to face the past without allowing it to control your present by healing your inner child. Learn seven tips to do so here.
Surrendering Takes Courage
Surrender. Just hearing that word likely evokes very different emotions from different people. For a lot of us, surrendering makes us take a leap of faith into the unknown, and that’s pretty scary. It takes courage and a willingness to...
Fear: Discovering What’s Real And What’s Not
Fear–it’s a word that has a negative connotation, and for many of us, for good reason. It conjures up many emotions and leaves us with the sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I know this feeling all too well. For most of my life,...
Forgiveness Is Self-Care: A Radical Way To Care For Yourself
The concept of self-care brings about a million different ideas of what self-care means in your life. The pandemic has taken a toll on most of our mental health in various ways. Self-care has become a term we see more often and in a more...
Love/Hate Relationship with My Body
Ugh...bathing suit shopping. Is that the thought you have when it comes to shopping for a new suit? That's mine. Now...before you go judging me or anyone when we say these things, let's remember that it doesn't matter what we think about...
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The Role of Self-Forgiveness in Overcoming Personal Trauma
Trauma changes us. Someone we trust betrays us, and we're different. Something changes from how it's always been, and we're different. A loved one leaves us or dies, and we're forever different. Whatever the trauma is, when life as we...
Reframing Your Mindset: A Pathway to Better Relationships and Self-Acceptance
In this fast-paced world, we often find ourselves trapped in a loop of negative thoughts and perceptions. The habit of viewing things from one rigid perspective can significantly affect our relationships, self-esteem, and overall mental...
Boundary Setting: A Personal Journey to Self-Empowerment
Growing up, the concept of setting boundaries was alien to me. I didn’t really grasp what boundaries were, nor did I understand their importance in maintaining healthy relationships and personal integrity. However, as I encountered...
Transformative Self-Care: Creating Rituals for Inner Peace
In today’s fast-paced world, the term "self-care" often conjures images of leisurely bubble baths and soothing massages. While these indulgences are enjoyable and certainly part of taking care of oneself, self-care encompasses much more....
The Path to Inner Peace: Mindfulness and Forgiveness in Self-Discovery
Two ancient but always relevant practices stand out in the journey toward a fulfilling and peaceful life: mindfulness and forgiveness. These two practices carry hope and invite us on a journey toward self-discovery, emotional healing, and...
Navigating the Guilt Maze
We all deal with guilt in life. Surprisingly, not all guilt is bad; proper 'guilt' can be healthy for us and keep us on the paths we want to travel. It's hard to navigate the guilt maze–knowing what's healthy and not and how to get the...
People Pleasing As A Safety Mechanism
In a world where acceptance often feels like a currency, people-pleasing behavior has become a common, albeit misunderstood, phenomenon. At its core, people-pleasing involves consistently prioritizing the needs and desires of others over...
The Habit of Over-Apologizing Women: Stop Saying Sorry!
Women tend to apologize for simply taking up space. Have you ever counted how many times a day you say, "I'm sorry," for something? We over-apologize, and this habit doesn't benefit us. It's a reflection of deeper societal conditioning....
How to Forgive Yourself for Past Mistakes
We all have a past and what matters is what you do with your future. Learn how to forgive yourself for past mistakes here.
Perspective Shifting With Radical Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a concept that’s often discussed but rarely understood. When we allow it to transform our perspective on a situation or person, it’s radical and can benefit us by letting anger go and growing beyond our pain. It’s no secret...
What Can You Expect From Transformational Coaching?
Transformational coaching can help different aspects of your life. So, what can you expect from this process? Find out here.
How to Find Your Purpose in This One Life We Live
We’ve only got a blip of time on this Earth. Make the most of it! Learn how to find your purpose (and how transformation coaching can help) in this article.
Victim Consciousness: Weighing What We Weigh
We weigh what we weigh…a key concept I first heard from a sponsor when I was early in my sobriety and had started attending AA. It’s a statement that impacted me then and continues to impact me now. Maybe it’s something that will impact...
Stepping Into Sovereignty: Honoring Yourself To Honor Others
When we talk about the concept of sovereignty, we may think of something political or related to government. We know that sovereignty is also a term that describes those who find honoring ourselves allows us to honor others. As we seek to...
Love: Making One Out Of Two
Love. It’s a transformational concept. Greek philosophers tell a story of humans initially being of three types–male, female, and androgynous. According to Greek legend, these were not humans as we know them today. They were...
The Different Types of Transformational Coaching and How They Help
Transformational coaching comes in many different forms, depending on how you want to transform and change yourself. Learn more here.
Don’t Let Self-Doubt Get You Stuck
Doubt is troubling. It leaves us feeling unsettled and unsure. But self-doubt can be even worse, as those feelings of uncertainty and lack of faith are in ourselves. We’re not sure we’re able enough, think well enough or feel enough, and...
Transformation: A Process You’re Worth
The word transformation may sound daunting, but the truth is that it doesn’t have to be. In fact, it’s a word that can bring you to a place of fullness and contentment with the person you are working to become. The realization that you...
How to Stop Being Your Own Worst Critic
Many people focus on their flaws instead of their successes. Discover how to stop being your own worst critic by clicking here.
7 Tips for Healing Your Inner Child
Learn to face the past without allowing it to control your present by healing your inner child. Learn seven tips to do so here.
Surrendering Takes Courage
Surrender. Just hearing that word likely evokes very different emotions from different people. For a lot of us, surrendering makes us take a leap of faith into the unknown, and that’s pretty scary. It takes courage and a willingness to...
Fear: Discovering What’s Real And What’s Not
Fear–it’s a word that has a negative connotation, and for many of us, for good reason. It conjures up many emotions and leaves us with the sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I know this feeling all too well. For most of my life,...
Forgiveness Is Self-Care: A Radical Way To Care For Yourself
The concept of self-care brings about a million different ideas of what self-care means in your life. The pandemic has taken a toll on most of our mental health in various ways. Self-care has become a term we see more often and in a more...
Love/Hate Relationship with My Body
Ugh...bathing suit shopping. Is that the thought you have when it comes to shopping for a new suit? That's mine. Now...before you go judging me or anyone when we say these things, let's remember that it doesn't matter what we think about...