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What Does A Consistent Meditation Practice *Really* Feel Like?
Daily healthy habits are tricky to sustain. There’s usually NO instant gratification (like when you buy a sweet treat or new outfit/car/gadget.) You’ve got to remind yourself to engage with new behavior each week while you learn to enjoy new and different results, which means adopting a host of OTHER behaviors
Read Full PostWhat does your pain allow you to avoid?
Let me first preface this piece by saying that pain and suffering are no joke. There are HARD places in life that can seem to go on and on without end or relief. And those challenges wear us down, cause real symptoms in our minds and bodies, and can seem to defeat us utterly.
This post is NOT intended as a Pollyanna bypass on your pain, hardship, or anguish. Those places just suck, frankly. There’s no other way to say it. If that’s where you are today, I empathize and sympathize with you. I’ve been there too.
And yet, we still have choices every day we wake up.
Is It Possible To Walk A Completely Different Path With Confidence?
Changing your life and walking a different path is certainly not easy. There are relationships, resources, logistics, and courage to consider. There are hurdles to climb—our dreams are never one hundred percent rainbows and unicorns once we begin to enact them.
Read Full PostHow To Build Confidence (without dying of embarrassment or fear)
In my personal meditation and hypnotherapy journey, I realized that our confidence stems precisely from the beliefs and messages in our minds. Many of these messages have been constructed as children and young adults–and can stick with us for decades.
Read Full PostThe Keys To Developing Self-Confidence
Developing self-confidence after years (a lifetime?) of doubting your feelings, skills, experience, or even your very reality can feel like a mountain you’ll never summit. The build-up of external and internal critical voices over the years is real and often crippling to every human on earth (even the ones who seem to have it all together on social media!) And yet, we require a healthy dash of self-confidence to get anywhere in life. To grow beyond our circumstances, to reach for health and well-being, to live a life that is more than quiet desperation.
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