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The Most Important Day of the Week Might Not Be What You Think
There is one person who truly knows best. And no, it’s not your mother (although she is probably a close second). That person is God, and he knew that humans need rest. That’s why the most important day of the week has nothing to do with your work week, and everything to do with taking the time to rejuvenate yourself. Observing the sabbath, the weekly day of rest, is important [...]
The Healing Power of Positive Self-Talk
There’s one person that we all have to spend 24 hours a day with, 365 days a year (or 366 days if a leap year like 2020) – ourselves. And to be honest, spending all that time together can be difficult. Think about all the things you say to yourself throughout the day. How many of your thoughts are meant to lift you up, and how many bring you [...]
Thinking Forward
At the turn of a new decade, many Americans continue to seek out innovative ways to enhance their lives and acquire a fresh reset into this next year. Our voices narrate stories about ourselves that are responsible for conveying the sincere complexity of choice. Each day presents itself with both enduring opportunity and impacting emotionality in relation to the behavioral economics of decision science, a growing research field in [...]
One Day Daring Greatly Workshop for Women
One Day Daring GreatlyTM Workshop for Women IN 2020, ARE YOU LOOKING TO… Show up as your authentic self in your personal and/or professional spaces? Lean into courage and be more vulnerable with others to form deeper connections? Confront shame that is holding you back from reaching your goals? Be more compassionate with yourself and others? If any of those sound like challenges you hope to confront in 2020, [...]
The Most Wonderful Counselor
The best counselors I know are ones that have been through difficulties of their own and can empathize with their clients. In fact, one of the key characteristics I look for in therapists as I am interviewing is brokenness. I ask each candidate, “tell me a time in your life you were broken and what did you learn from it?” No one wants to see a counselor that has [...]
Dethroning the Voice of Shame – Part II
Please read Part I here. No longer neglected as part of the human condition and family of experiences, shame is now being termed as the Master Emotion. Truly a juggernaut of personal and interpersonal affects within culture, shame carries within itself a powerful internal phenomenon of humiliation, anger, abandonment, remorse, and rejection. Shame is now transitioning from being formerly ignored, repressed, and overlooked to having a global platform of prominence [...]