What to Do When Your Family Triggers You…

So, yesterday, I was at a family reunion. Even though, this is a part of my family that I had only connected to just a few years ago, family can have a way of (mostly unintentionally) bringing up our stuff and yesterday, I had this experience with someone I hadn’t met before. For me, for quite some time, this thought that was working against me, and really, what I’ve been wanting to create in my life, had been lying in the background. While I was partly conscious of it and I knew I would need to address it to accelerate […]

We’ve spent our whole lives being taught our emotions are wrong, resisting them and believing that feeling our feelings hurts. But, what if, instead of this old paradigm, we were raised believing that feeling our feelings is one of the biggest keys to a rich, deep life? What if we were taught that we can only allow in as much joy as we can sadness, anger, hurt, etc. and when we limit our range of feelings, we limit our life? What if, with this, we were not only taught this, but we were given the tools to actually be able […]

Happy Sunday! I hope you’re enjoying your weekend! As promised, I wanted to share a few of my calm practices (below :)), in case any of these can help you in creating your own version of calm. Some of them you may be familiar with while others are rooted in the subconscious, my specialty. 🙂 So, first, what does living in calm mean to me? For me, calm isn’t just a buzz word or trend or something I chose because it’s the start of the year. For me, calm is a lifestyle. It’s something that I choose every day, and […]

I have something to say and it’s important. With the suicides of two high-profile, highly-successful people, first and foremost, I want you to know you’re not alone. This world can feel rough or like it’s going to take you down at times. God knows I’ve been there, experiencing everything from regular anxiety and depression to major loss, including the loss of a loved one to suicide. I’ve had suicidal thoughts myself, and I want you to know, no matter where you are right now, there is light at the end of the tunnel, even if it doesn’t seem like it now. […]