Category: Blog
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Why I’m not making New Year’s Resolutions and neither should you.
The older I get and the more social media grows, the more the comparison game is becoming a is becoming all consuming. As my neighbors and I sat around and talked about the expectations of the new year, we all questioned whether we were doing enough. As though being strong independent adults who want to…
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Anxiety, Fear and Insecurity, which is it?
Do you mistake Anxiety for Insecurity? These lines are becoming quite blurred. We now have a diagnosis and we can explain how we feel, but are we explaining it away? Are we using it as a reason to not try to not do things to keep ourselves in a bubble? I had the opportunity to…
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Lock and Listen: How to respond when someone is grieving.
We often spend our time thinking about all the right things to say when someone we love is grieving. Sometimes it’s best to lock your mouth shut and listen.
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Grief will not be solved in five stages.
There is no formula for grief, and there is no predictability. We must understand that grief will never be fully understood.
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Why grieving matters: How our society embraces celebration but ignores grief.
In world that is moving in a rapid pace we need to slow down. We need to allow ourselves the time to grieve. Not only grieve a loss, but unmet expectations, disappointments, betrayals, etc.,
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Why boundaries and saying no can reduce your anxiety.
All too often we are faced with many wonderful things to say yes to, but at the end of the day, we feel depleted and disappointed. Somehow everything we are doing is great, but it isn’t what the true desire of our heart is. If we’re honest it’s the best thing at the moment. It’s…
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Anxiety: a misplaced desire for heaven.
We walk around as victims of a schedule that we created. Did you get that? We created this schedule so we can control our anxiety around time and our scheduling. The good news is that we do have control, the bad news is it’s going to require some changes in our day to day life.
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Do you choose comfort over abundance?
Comfort never gets you anywhere, comforts keeps you exactly where you are at. Is that really what we want? Do we really want to stay exactly where we are at? I think all of us can say that the answer is no. Over the course of my life I have learned that out of the…
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When your story makes others uncomfortable.
. I’ve come to realize that I have experienced far more than the majority of the people my age. For a long time that made me uncomfortable and I found it hard to relate to my peers. Their problems either seemed completely trivial or annoyingly immature. Unfortunately, my response to my peers wasn’t always the…
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Food Isn’t the Problem. Our Heart Is.
fuel is not just about food, but guarding our mind and changing our mindset about what food is then fuel becomes not just about what we eat, but what we watch, what we read, what we listen to…how we feed our mind, body and soul.