Have you decided how you want the rest of the year to go yet? Yes, this is a decision… Regardless of what the world is doing out there you still have control over your mind, your feelings, your actions, your home, your work and the rest of it… This is a hard concept for some…
I never learned to swim as a kid. I had a few traumatic experiences around bodies of water growing up. These experiences shaped the way I felt around swimming pools and the ocean. I live in an urban jungle, so I never really found the need to learn the new skill. To avoid worry, I…
People are looking for ways to be safe, healthy, and experience peace, joy and fulfillment in life. When you reduce stress, you reduce cortisol and open the door for your body to move towards the optimal immune response available to you. The #1 way to boost your natural immunity is to lower stress. You do…
The thoughts won’t kill you… but they sure do feel like they are killing you in the moment. We often call them racing thoughts. Often, they happen at night when we’re trying to sleep, and it feels like our mind is running endlessly on a carousel of memories, images, and fears. When these thoughts happen,…
Painful past experiences. We’ve all had them. Broken relationships. Abuse from the people who were supposed to watch out for us. Traumatic moments and events. The list keeps going on and on. With each painful past experience, you developed ways to help you survive, get through, to overcome the hurt you were going through. You…
When you are stressed out, the foods that you are turning to are most likely going to be traditional ‘comfort’ foods – think big meals, take-out, fatty foods, sweet foods, and alcohol. Let’s face it – we’ve all found some comfort in a tasty meal and a bottle of beer or glass of wine when…
Men face specific mental health challenges that few people talk about. Men are taught to be strong. Men have evolved into their strength. People consider men to be assertive, aggressive, and not in touch with their feelings. This emotionally limited way of being and viewing the world has an impact on men’s mental health because…
Marriage expert and founder of the Gottman Institute, John Gottman discovered that small or seemingly insignificant things can lead to couples fighting. Not to say that couples don’t fight, but the fight isn’t necessarily about the topic that started it. Typically, couples are arguing because someone is feeling hurt or neglected. Bidding for Your Partner…
The time has come to decide who you really are, who you are meant to become, what kind of relationship you want and what kind of life you want. This is it! Do you want an extraordinary life? Have you noticed that more and more systems are breaking down and revamping (deconstructing and reconstructing…)? We…
My home is my “comfy zone” and I am pretty sure that we can all relate to that, it’s where we land after a full day of flying around and working. But now as the preventive measures for Covid-19 have been bestowed upon us, my home has now also become my full-time office,…