10 Steps for Turning Off the Panic Button
When something trips your panic button – the fight/flight/freeze response from your amygdala – don’t get stuck. Here are 10 steps for hitting the off switch. A few years ago, an event tripped my amygdala response, …
#1 Life Skill for Peace and Fulfillment
If you want more peace and fulfillment in your life, make sure you have this #1 essential life skill: connection with your feelings. Do you know your feelings? Do they take you by surprise? Do you overreact to …
4 Tips to Turn Failure into Motivation
What keeps you going when you fail again and again? I think for me it’s hope, hope for myself, that I’ll learn the lesson; hope for finding the right next step and a better outcome; …
How to Heal the World from CRAZY
Want to know the secret to healing the world from CRAZY? First of all, it starts with you. And me. Every one of us, as individuals. Because you know what contributes the most to an insane …
5 Tips for Building Social Connections as an Older Parent of a Young Child
As an older parent of a young child, I worried about building strong social connections with other parents. Here are some tips I learned along the journey so far. When I finally had my long-dreamed-of …
How Hypervigilance Can Help You Relax
It sounds contradictory, but hypervigilance can help you relax. When you go through a health crisis, like cancer, you become hypervigilant. In the beginning, you focus on how it happened, how it’s growing and affecting your body, how …
Claim Your Emotional Freedom!
Are you lovesick? Feel like an emotional hostage? Wish you could just free yourself emotionally from others and from all your own baggage? I used to pine for love from others to feel valuable …
4 Steps to Let Go of Regret and Embrace Acceptance
I made a big mistake today. I did something out of anxiety. I took action without fully thinking it through. And I almost immediately regretted it. Because I made a problem for myself that had …
Are You a Seeker? Five Tips to Get to Your Goal
Are you a seeker? A seeker is someone who is driven, motivated, and passionate to solve a problem, achieve a goal, or find something more. I am a seeker and my single-minded goal is more …
Peace Starts with Knowing Yourself
Peace starts with knowing yourself. Knowing yourself and accepting yourself, warts and all, is the foundation for self-love. Self-love inoculates us from outside influences. When you come from a core of self-knowledge and self-love, you …