Latest on the Blog
A collection of stories, strategies, and tips to inspire your mental and emotional health journey.
Performance Anxiety
What if you could be In The Zone of your skills and knowledge and efficiently accomplish your desires in any situation?
Workplace Stress Project
How can we be happy and productive in an inherently stressful workplace? We all want to work in an environment that supports our creativity and skills.
Emotional First Aid
How would you like to have a remedy for every uncomfortable emotion that comes up in your life? Sound too good to be true? It may sound incredible, but it is true and verifiable.
Playing for the Sharks: Conquering Stage Fright
How is it that no matter how prepared you are, when you step into the spotlight, it is like the fresh hell of terror? It can start the moments, hours, or days before the event.
Rebounding from Daily News stress
The news feeds are filled with some much information about what it "going wrong". It can throw us into fear, anger, sadness, helplessness, exasperation, and distress. Most of the time we can't actively do anything in response to the news and become frozen in our emotional response.
Your Feelings are Real
I'm a guest blogger on the Emotional Health Institute website :) and this blog is one I posted there.
Taming Your Inner Critic
How do you make peace with that inner chatter that contributes negative self-talk to the flow of thoughts in your head? Some small portion of it may be helpful and keep us on track and noticing necessary details.
Emotional Help for College Stress
With High School complete, the next life step for many graduates is college which includes new responsibilities, financial pressures and scholastic expectations. Many college students are not emotionally equipped for the challenges they will face.
Childbirth Trauma
Pregnancy sets up many expectations. Its an time of expecting that's full of hopes and dreams for the baby: what kind of childhood and life is in store, how can the parent support her on her path to a bright future?
Emotional Merry-go-rounds and other spirals
It's that situation again. That person or group is present. This conversation or action will trigger my feelings. I'll spiral into my "go-to" emotions. and I'll be back in my misery, again. It takes too much energy and time to climb out of that wheel.
Don't let a bad vibe carry you away
Did you really have a bad day or did you have 10-20 minutes where you let your thoughts run undisciplined which led you to a bad vibe that you let carry you away. Come on... you run this [show]. Pay attention.
Letting Go of "IT"
How many times have we heard or thought to ourselves, "just let it go"? Don't be angry forever, let it go. Don't be anxious or fearful, let it go. If we could just wash it off in the shower, or cough it out like a puff of smog, that would be one thing.
Don't let your Emotions control you. Resolve them instead.
Seems like every day we have them. Emotions. We react emotionally to the personal interactions and circumstances that we move through each day. Some emotions we like: joy, happiness, gratitude, hope, inspiration, pride, serenity, inspiration, and, of course, love. Want them. Want to keep them.