Tag: negative emotion

We all have dreams. Dreams of what we’d like to do in the future. Things we want to achieve in the next ten years, twenty years, or once we retire. Things that we add to the ‘Bucket List.’ Dreams that put a smile on our face when we dare to let our minds drift for…

“I can’t write a book!” was my first reaction when my sister suggested I write one. “Why not?” she asked. I could already sense a million reservations building up inside me (okay, maybe not a million but at least three to start with.) The biggest one—the one that kept coming up repeatedly—was what I’d imagine…

Don’t let it knock you out of the game. When life throws you a curve-ball (and you know it will,) it can sometimes feel like everything is caving in on you. It’s easy to let it knock you out of the game. Life’s challenges can seem insurmountable at times, and it’s easy to get lost in…

When I became a parent, worry seemed quite normal.  I worried about their happiness, their health, and their safety. Their pain became my pain. When they suffered, I suffered. The world seemed like a cruel and dangerous place, and I wanted them to be strong, to be fearless, and most of all to be happy. I…

  Anxiety can be isolating. It fills your head with self-doubt and has you believing you just don’t measure up. It can make you feel like you’re the only one feeling the way you do, and that no one else can possibly understand. How could they? They’re normal and you…well you, are not! Normal people…

  Are you someone who overthinks, constantly worries or feels like their brain doesn’t shut off?  Do you want to know how to stop worrying? If the answer is yes! I want to share a simple trick that may help you but first I need to explain what is happening when you’re in that state. …

You look great. You look like you have your act together. You’re keeping up appearances and you do it beautifully, but behind the fashionable clothes, the carefully applied make up and the fragile smile…you’re lost! Not everyone feels anxiety in the same way.  Meghan Rienks describing how anxiety shows up for her in this video! Does…

If you could go back in time and meet your 10-year-old self what would you tell her?   Most of us would tell ourselves not to worry so much, that things will work out, that everything will be ok.     After all, that would be true, things do have a way of working themselves…