Living an emotionally well-thy life isn’t a destination. It’s not a marathon where you arrive at an end point where you can stop training, where you don’t need to run another kilometer or watch what you eat. It’s more like being committed to being healthy. You go to the gym, get on your bike, run or do yoga. […]
Why do you need to have a vision for your life? It leads you to examine it—to see patterns, the stories you tell about yourself, your values. It helps guide your decisions and defines what you want to do and the people you want to help. A life vision provides a path, a direction for where […]
Mindful choices are made from a place of power and meaning. It is not dictated by external circumstances or by long-held convictions that aren’t true anymore. One of our exercises when I trained to be a life coach was to articulate the worst things we say to ourselves. I said “I’m lazy.” One of […]
If there is one habit to remember out of all the seven, it’s this: Knowing and loving yourself will be the force that will change your life because it will allow you to make choices to live the life YOU WANT, not the life everyone else wants you to live. Here are some questions you can […]
Women who aspire to emotional wellness have a healthy relationship with their feelings—with fear, anger, grief or joy. What’s your usual reaction when you feel something aside from joy? Say, for example, when you’re feeling scared or bored on envious or anxious? If you’re anything like me, you run away! It’s not comfortable to feel all […]
It’s been an honor (and a thrill) to have been invited as a guest speaker for Women’s Month events this March. I’ve also inspired by the stories of my co-speakers and challenged by the difficult questions that were asked during the open forum. Today, I spoke to a group of amazing women about the Seven […]
