3 Tips to Kick-Start Your Emotional Intelligence
“Emotional intelligence” seems like a big, vague term. To put it in practical terms, it’s knowing your emotions and having a way to manage them for your best health and growth. I don’t know about …
Self-Care Is Other Care
Self-care is other care. Putting yourself first is the best thing you can do to help others, including the person you’re dating. Wait you say, isn’t that just selfishness? It certainly seems to run counter …
Fight the Bad Guy: Self-Hatred
To feel good or better about ourselves, we need to suit up as our inner superhero and take on the bad guy: Self-Hatred. But there are so many barriers in the way to loving ourselves …
Reclaim Your Inner Superhero to Rescue Your Own Life
If you’ve been obsessively seeking a person, event, or achievement to validate your worth, you can stop now. You are the only one with the power to claim your happiness, confidence, and serenity at any …
Self-Care as the Path to True Altruism – the Irony!
What if we’ve been getting the wrong messages all our lives and self-care is actually the path to altruism? Wouldn’t that be ironic? Anyone get this message growing up: “Think of yourself first!”? What, nobody? …
Feel Good Tip #1: Know Your Needs
If you want to feel good regardless of what others think or say, follow this simple tip: Know Your Needs. It sounds obvious, but not many of us actually know our needs and how to meet them without …
Do You Beat Yourself Up? 4 Ways to Stand up to the Inner Bully
One of the worst enemies of serenity is beating ourselves up for our mistakes. We develop an inner bully who rules our every move. This post offers 4 ways to stand up to the inner bully. …
4 Tips for Meeting Your Needs Without Needing Others
You don’t need others to meet your needs. You will gain huge emotional freedom if you know your needs and have a flexible plan for meeting them. This doesn’t mean you don’t need other people. But …
5 Tips When You Can’t Sleep
When you can’t sleep, it’s easy to get caught up in negative thinking, so here are 5 tips to help you when you’re struggling with sleep. I have always felt lucky that I was a …
7 Tips for (Mentally) Surviving Cancer
Like every life challenge, surviving cancer is as much a mental game as a physical one. Here are 7 tips that got me through breast cancer. 1. Feel your feelings. Let them pass, don’t get stuck. …