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Recovering from Addiction: Steps to Living a Fulfilling Life
Addiction can be a difficult and trying time, but there are ways to get back on track and live a healthier and happier life. It may take time, effort, and hard work, but it will be worth it in the end as you discover newfound freedom and peace of mind. Here are some tips that can help people in addiction recovery get their lives back on track.
Maintaining Like a Mother…
I’ve been maintaining this thing called life for a while. Why?
The easy answer is “Because I’m good at it.”
Most women are. From a young age maintaining is a goal we are taught to aim at. Especially those that have parents pushing their sweet young children into the American Dream that sometimes feels like a nightmare.
4 Ways I Live my Purpose
Many times in my life people have asked me why I love making jewelry, what inspires me to paint, and why I feel compelled to coach other women. Those questions often short-circuit and confuse my brain. Putting my feelings into words often feels like an impossibly complicated task.
“Because I love it” is the truth but not the full truth. Something less than the full truth doesn’t resonate with me or the person I’m talking to. What will resonate with them?
Things You Never Said
How to be Honest- One of the biggest faults I see in people that they don’t want to admit is they are not honest. That doesn’t mean we flat out lie, we just downplay our response. Maybe that’s because we think others will judge us so we tell people things aren’t that important to us when they really are.
Sleep Your Way to Success
Making decisions that strain your days (that turn into weeks, then months, then years…) makes you unhappy even when it’s for a “good reason.” Women need way more sleep and rest than we allow ourselves. We have created bad habits and say that’s just life.
Lessons in Failure
I hope you take the time to set goals that properly reflect your true desires…not the same old basic ones everyone sets because they “are supposed to.” If you want to know how to do that, I’ll hook you up!
Christmas Unlike the Griswold’s
So many of us go into the Holidays with a dream, a goal, and a desired outcome but we don’t have a plan to achieve our goals. Read more to learn how to have a less stressful holiday season.
Juggling the Circus of Life
The circus, much like life, proves juggling is done with way more things than actual objects.
Schedules and desires are things we manage every day. If your life is anything like mine, you are already running around half crazy trying to get everyone where they need to be and do all the things that need to be done. Let me give you some tips.
Celebrate Your Participation Trophy with Pride
We live in an age where kids get Participation Trophies for everything. For a long time, I hated that tradition. But, dare I say it? I can see the value (now) in recognizing the strength and hard work that person put into something. Especially when things didn’t work out like they hoped, or dreamed they would. I'll show you how to celebrate yourself.
Sanity in the Busy Season
November is here and well, we have holidays, feasts, and general elections this month. That’s enough to make you want to take a nap! I’m excited about the prep. Let me give you some tips…
Sacrifice Fear This Halloween
I invite you to look deep into your soul and ask yourself the following.
What am I putting first in my life that really would serve better as a sacrifice?
Is there something rational thoughts tell me is not working for me?
Why am I forcing myself to keep putting that thing first when I know love is better for my life?
7 Ways to Reframe Failure
Changing your thought patterns about failure doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a long process and a HUGE mindset change for us Americans that feel pressured to be the best at everything we do.
You CAN do it though. I am a recovering perfectionist so I am proof that it is possible.
The thing is, no matter how great we become or how much we improve, there is always going to be the fear of failure that intrudes into our thoughts.
There will always be more we can learn to improve our lives and get closer to our happy place. Hopefully, I will help you on your journey.
Setting Healthy Boundaries
Boundaries are so important I want to share with you some things to consider when deciding how to set boundaries. that has worked for me in the past.
I've been known to successfully set a few boundaries with work and my personal life. It’s important to do it in a way that is respectful and allows for communication. Let me help you.
Women are Liars!
Lies of omission are just as bad as the ones that are blatant and in your face. The difference is who they hurt. It’s usually the one holding back the full truth to their own detriment.
Do you lie (of omission)?
How To Live A Passionate Life
Passionate Living is about finding out what makes us happy and then making sure we do those things more often.
Living my Mindset Like it’s Golden
Have you paid attention to the attitudes of those around you over the last few years?
A lot of people have attitudes oozing with entitlement and resentfulness.
It is due to a combination of fear and poor self-image.
Combine these two things and you have a recipe for a toxic person.
Feelings Are Not For the Birds
When you grieve someone who is still alive you have the opportunity to run into them and grieve them over and over. I grieved the final death of family and loved ones. Those are final and hurt like a MF but thankfully you only lose each person once this way. Two of these lead me to lay in the middle of the kitchen floor, cheek to tile, eyes full of tears, trying to breathe.
Life has a way of giving you the experience (lemons) and forcing you to learn (to make lemonade) by throwing you into the deep end.
Enjoy Life Before You Retire
Living inauthentically robs us of our time and leaves us with regret.
There is probably nothing worse than knowing any breath could be your last. In theory, that goes for any of us but at 47 it’s not something you think about like you might at 97.
Choose Yourself
For many years I have felt a pull toward my version of freedom.
After many years in successful but unfulfilling jobs, I started trying to figure out what was wrong with me. (It had to be me right?) Why didn’t I like the “good jobs” I had? Why did I feel so out of place?
Then I realized I was a generic employee, leaving my talents at home.
Pattoning Something New!
For 2 years I have split myself. It hasn’t been serving me from the beginning.
There was something in the back of my mind telling me I was working on goals and schedules that were not sustainable. I just had to get in the right groove, the right mindset, the right *insert next catchy buzz word here.I told that voice it was underestimating me and to sit back and quietly watch me do the impossible. When inside I was fighting against the current with all I had.