My Child Isn’t Perfect, but Here’s What I’ve Learned From Him
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots,...
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How to Manage Workplace Stress in 5 Easy Steps
Everyone is different with unique stress triggers of their own as well as ways of dealing with stress. However, work is one common trigger that many of us share. Whether or not you enjoy your job, anything from the desire to do better, to deadlines, probably make you feel anxious regularly. Too often, that anxiousness can build itself up into stress in no time. This is why today, I want to talk to you about 5 tried (by me) and tested things that can help relieve your work-related stress. Read More...
The 2 Most Important Questions For Reclaiming Your Life
The true me doesn’t have it all figured out yet. I guess part of life’s plan is that we never really do, right? This is when I return to asking those simple questions, “What do I want? How do I feel?” Coming back to me is all I really have in this lifetime. And I’m so, so grateful that’s enough. Read More...
20 Strategies to Help You Overcome the Money Scarcity Mindset
Manifesting money consists of practices that will help you to overcome limiting beliefs you have about the money and scarcity mindset. In the next article, I will share the most common limiting beliefs about money and how to work on eliminating them, and in this one, I will be talking about the scarcity mindset. Read More...
Do You Want to Be Inspired and Unstoppable? Try This
“They tried to bury us; they did not know we were the seeds.” – Mexican proverb As I...
How to Find and Embrace Your Inner Child
I had lost touch with a very important part of myself—my inner child.
The process of coming into touch with the child inside required me to peel back the many layers of disappointments and hurt I had experienced in life, then work intensively to clear what I found there. Read More...
Here’s Something Weird That I’ve Learned about Sensationalism
Once upon a time, I tried to create a TV pilot.
I was stalled out in my style consulting business and had been told I was witty, articulate and “easy on the eyes.” So creating a TV show that demonstrated my coaching seemed like an obvious choice... Read More...
Trust Interrupted: One Choice You Need to Make After Betrayal
Trust Interrupted. When someone breaks your trust, betrays you, your first reaction is mild disbelief. Back in 2003, In my first unpublished book, I noted that trust is a precious brick of gold too heavy to place in someones shaking hands… it appeared to be true over the years – I’d give that ‘golden brick of trust’waiting for it to drop, and as all self-fulfilling prophecies = it would come true. Time in and again. Read More...
Pay Attention: 5 Thinking Patterns That Don’t Serve You
Critiquing someone’s thinking patterns is seen as rude and quite frankly, a lot of the time it won’t make a difference. That’s because, as humans, there are a few incorrect thinking patterns that we find ourselves feeding into because societal cues and our own experiences have told us it’s okay to. “Everyone must come to the realization of what thoughts do not serve them,” I explained. Here are some such thinking patterns. Read More...
How an International Exchange Can Make Your Life Better
I’ve always cherished my dual background, as having both Norwegian and French ancestry has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to safeguard your roots while yearning to explore other cultures. Since I grew up in the far north, where summer days never end, and winter nights persist for weeks, my inner Viking craved for sunshine.
So, despite my family’s complaints, I embarked on a student exchange journey all the way to the other hemisphere, where sunshine steals a better part of the year and I strongly believed there was an unspoken promise of happiness no matter where you land. Read More...
How to Release the Doubt that’s Holding You Back
We aren’t born into this world doubting ourselves. We learn to do it. Often in childhood. And it begins with a single planted seed. That seed is often one incidence that makes us feel ‘less than’ or not good enough. Read More...
The Ultimate Guide to Becoming Your Best Self
Before we dive into the colorful world of self-exploration and self-discovery, I would like to briefly explain what might otherwise become a misunderstanding. While aware of the following principles, I am nowhere near my best self, and yet I have always been no less than that, and I have a feeling that you are likely in the same conundrum. Read More...
How I Overcame a Childhood Trauma from Psychological Abuse
I want help others suffering from this sort of trauma to know that you they are not alone. You may be suffering in silence but, it can be worked out. Read More...
A Simple Way to Change the World… and actually enjoy it
Most of us live in cultures which support “misery loves company.” We don’t want to feel alone in our fears and our sorrows. But what if we spent more time sharing our successes and our conquered fears? What if we spoke more of our beautiful friendships and relationships, as well as and the moments we meet strangers who make us think twice about our place and our purpose? What would that be like? Read More...
One Important Life Lesson From Climbing in Himalayas
At 5.5 miles to peak, Mt. Everest reminded me I still had a long way to travel. I knew that with the community and my support group it was only a matter of time before I scaled my own Everest and you are just as capable! Read More...
9 Awe-Inspiring Life Lessons I Learned in the Garden
It was the first time in a year that I had got in the vegetable garden other than to forage for ingredients. The job ahead was large and felt overwhelming. A year without maintenance in a vegetable garden is long, too long for any hope of a healthy garden as any avid gardener will know. As I weeded, I considered the many things I’ve learned from my garden and how the lessons also apply in life more broadly. Read More...
15 Powerful Shifts to Help You Reconnect With Your Authentic Self
You were born to be you, not someone else. If you’ve lost who you are, making these 15 shifts will help reconnect you with your authentic self... Read More...
Self-Love: How to Love the “I” in “I Love You”
So, what is self-love? Simply put it’s about loving the “I” in “I love you.” When we usually think of the phrase “I love you” we are thinking about loving someone else. This means accepting them for who they are, sticking by them through good times and bad, encouraging them in their life pursuits, celebrating their healthy choices, and being a constant companion and ally. Sounds nice, huh? But what about actually providing this to your very self, as well? Read More...
Want to Bust Your New Year’s Resolutions? Do this
Time is running so fast! Can you believe that it’s already September? It’s time do some goals checklist and check on your New Year’s resolutions you’ve set for this year. There are still three months plus left, so there is still the time to devote to these goals. Do not recycle your New Year’s resolutions in January next year, but instead commit to achieving those goals this year. You can do it. Here's how. Read More...
Create a Kinder Mind: How to Stop Your Negative Self-Talk
with practice, you can replace these negative thinking patterns with thoughts that help and make a difference to your day to day happiness. Read More...
How to Awaken and Reconnect with your Spirituality
For some people, spirituality is irrevocably linked to religion, but others believe that it’s possible to connect with...