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Beyond the Cliché: The Myths of Love and How to Debunk Them
When we think of the word “love,” most of us think of images, symbols, and mythologies about romantic love from pop culture: fireworks bursting, flower petals falling—she loves me, she loves me not;...
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Use This Awe-Eliciting Trick to Put in Your Back Pocket for a Rainy Day
The mind. It’s a beautiful and a cruel place to be, depending on the moment. (A.K.A.“brutiful.”) The mind is part of what makes humans so amazing (Innovating! Creative! Unique!); it allows us to learn...
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What If All Your Work Disappeared at the End of the Day?
Over the past ten years, I’ve thought a lot about building a legacy. In particular, I’ve thought about it as it relates to a body of work that you produce and share over the years. This model has kept...
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Why Shadow Work Keeps You Away from the Light
I’ve done a lot of “shadow work”. Shadow work meaning looking into the feelings, thoughts, and associations I made in the past that are giving me grief in my present. In other words, I took lots of...
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How to Write a Page-Turner
Alex Berenson had the dream job. But he was unhappy. And perhaps it even scarred him in some ways. He switched it up. To his true dreams. To the dreams he had for himself since he was a child. I want...
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The First Step to Take When You’re in Hell
It feels interminable. Like you’ll never get out. Like it’s never…going…to…end. That’s the nature of hell. It’s not the pain that drives you insane, it’s the fear that the pain could go on and on. The...
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You Can Outgrow a Metaphor – for Example “Cancer Journey”
Whatever our circumstances in life, metaphors can give us clarity, meaning and stability. And so, like many other people diagnosed with cancer, I used to look at my life as a cancer journey. But at...
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Liberate Awareness from Ownership
With the horrific weather anomalies and natural disasters currently happening across the globe, it moved my attention towards all the challenges these Souls are being forced to accept in working with...
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How to Set your Holiday Table for Joy Rather than with Shame and Guilt
“The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.” ~ Pema Chodron Fall is here! And with Fall...
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How to Draw Boundaries for Empaths
Do you put everyone’s needs and feelings before your own? So much so, that you find it nearly impossible to draw comfortable boundaries in your relationships or are you afraid that if you do say no or...
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Do You Believe in Second Chances?
Have you ever had something come back around like a romantic relationship, friendship, job, or career path that you thought was over? Or perhaps you’ve gotten a second chance with a different situation...
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Trying to Quit Smoking–or Trying to Help Someone Else? Create Your...
As I know from studying habits for my book Better Than Before, one habit that people really want to change — in themselves or others — is the habit of smoking. But quitting is tough. If you’re...
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What Do Thoughts Have to Do With It?
I recently celebrated my 10th anniversary. So far it’s been a heck of a ride – in a good way most of the time, but just as in most marriages, there are challenges. My husband, Wes, is super cool and...
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Dissent Can Make Us Fat Girls Stronger
As a fat woman, I know all about naysayers. I only have to walk around in my large, roll-covered body to get the message loud and clear that my body size is not okay. From the sideways looks from...
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How to Give Your Child a Rich Life–Without Raising Entitled Kids
“Our offspring have simply leveraged our good intentions and over-investment…They inhabit a broad savannah of entitlement that we’ve watered, landscaped, and hired gardeners to maintain.” -Sally Koslow...
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How to Successfully Quit Your Job and Pursue Your Dream
Do you remember when you grew up and you wanted to become a firefighter, musician or maybe a professional athlete? A passion you wanted to pursue because you loved doing it. However, once you grew...
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An Invitation to Live Life as You Were Meant To
Can you feel life’s invitation? What does it take to live fully as who you really are? To live life as you dream of it? Does that sound out-of-reach? Impossible, even? We grow up with such a rationed...
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What Helps Me Cope with Difficult Emotions
“One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. “One is Evil – It is anger, envy, jealousy,...
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Becoming The Master Of Your Own Fate
His platoon was counting on him. He couldn’t come back a failure. Brandon Webb was deployed to the Middle East four times. He was a SEAL and then he became a special operations sniper. “We were new...
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Did You Get Interrupted on the Way To “Ideal”?
Photo titled: “Kid interrupting poignant selfie” August 2017 My life has next to zero resemblance of what I thought it would look like when I started to act like an adult (I just snorted when I typed...
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