What is your personal style? Have you given that much thought? I hadn't and then that changed.
What is your true nature, your essence? For some of us we always know it and for others, me included, we have to discover it through awareness and what feels right.
When you are in a toxic relationship or environment and you start to realize that wake up, what does that mean
Knowing that change is inevitable then what holds us back from accepting change? What if, when a lesson in a relationship or job has been learned we acknowledged what has been learned and then release the hold? That is where I find myself now.
What is it to be emotionally unavailable? Sometimes all it takes is being too invested in an outcome that will never be and the lack of awareness to let go.
When I got let go from my job it created a toxic time in my life. This experience would make me question how I could have let this happen and what I needed to make things right, for me.
There are certain people and experiences that test us and shape us, for the better. This is the story of my sister-in-law walk with cancer and me by her side.
What if our life is not about our purpose but instead is about the myriad of experiences that together form us and how we experience people and the world?
So, with this idea in mind, I decided to accept what comes and even seek out experiences, including the embarrassing and the ridiculous. Here are a few of those stories.
When you or a friend is caught up in a situation, I refer to that as being "In It". When I found my way out I tried to figure out how. In this episode I share my findings.
There are things we learn from our parents and there are ways we become like our parents. To understand myself, it starts with HER. My mother.
I do not remember when I lost the desire to say NO and started saying YES instead.
As I settle into my forties I hear NO knocking and the journey I began to reclaim my NO.
It is hard to know what someone wants and what will fulfill their needs but after an unusual conversation I was left seeing relationships for what they are.
Have you thought about your love language and others? Most people would say, "not really."
So I decided to spend some time getting to know them all and report back on what I learned.
After 30 years of receiving gifts poorly, one gift would shift my thinking to acceptance.
Life happens and how we handle the things that come at us comes down to our actions. So I started to just breathe.
A chance encounter made me realize that I no longer just thought differently... I now felt differently and was different.
It was time.
What if you could remove the questioning of WHY and the wishes that come with SHOULD and by doing both you shed the victom story? That is what I experimented with.
When the stories we tell ourselves hold us back, and how to let go.
When fitting in becomes harder than standing out.
When I realized that not everyone is a giver I found new ways to understand, accept and navigate the takers.