Coping Skills: How to Deal with Anxiety, Depression & Overwhelm
My body is tense and uncomfortable, looking for distractions… Caffeine? Perfect! Sugar? Bring it on! Text messaging, videogames, Facebook? Even better. My mind is shifting, circling without landing anywhere… one thought to the next distracted thought. Conversations and people around me are like magnets, drawing my fickle attention. I feel like someone dropped a handful…
Spring is Here! 3 Steps to Clearing Your Mind & De-Cluttering Your Internal Basement
Internal clutter feels a lot like external clutter… It’s there and you know it. You don’t want to deal with it. The more you don’t deal with it the bigger it seems. And now there’s a secondary list of the things you need to do but can’t until the original clutter is dealt with. You’re…
Slow Down! Why SLOW is The New Fast
Oh, it used to feel so good, so empowering. An adrenaline rush, really. I could be writing a 5 year plan, on a conference call and communicating in hand-signals to my co-workers, all at once. Forget walking and chewing gum! I ran down the hallways to the fax machine, swung into my boss’ office, a…
Overcoming Fear: Accepting and Integrating Your Shadow Self
“What I know from this daily journey is that fear increases pain. What I don’t know but I suspect is that pain IS fear.” Shrieking and cowering on its hind legs, the Gollum-like cat bares and gnashes its fangs, hissing. Although free to roam in a beautiful garden, it is frozen in its tracks writhing…
How Do I Find Myself (When I Don’t Feel Like “Me” Anymore)?
Do you know one of those people that seems to express themselves effortlessly? Easy. Self confident. Authentic. Well there is one simple thing you can do every day that will bring you leaps and bounds closer to living life as your own authentic self. It will bring you unconditional self-confidence and peace, stop negative patterns in…
