Emotional

20 Tips for Being and Staying Encouraged

“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” – Oprah Winfrey Being encouraged and staying encouraged is a learned life practice. The more energy and effort you create for this practice to grow within, the easier it becomes to live this. Self-encouragement is easy when […]

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4 Practical Practices to Diffuse Holiday Stress

“Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response to what happens, and response is something we can choose.” – Maureen Killoran Of all the seasons and celebrations during the year, it is the last two months of the year, November and December, that are the busiest. Both professionally and personally, they send out

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3 Childhood Limiting Beliefs and How to Release Them

As children, if we weren’t given some form of limitation through rules, we wouldn’t learn what is considered to be the appropriate or inappropriate behavior to exhibit in various experiences. And we also wouldn’t learn how to keep ourselves safe from danger or harm. With too little rules or guidance, our wild nature would go

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Communicate Constructively Even When You\’re Angry

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ― George Bernard Shaw Are you really good at maintaining a calm and positive mindset when your buttons are being pushed? Let’s face it, everyone loses their cool sometimes. How do you communicate constructively when you are upset? Do you know

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The Power of A Pause: Take A 20-Second Break

The 20-second break is an awareness break. This simple practice saved me from burning up a healthy relationship today; one I didn’t want to lose. It\’s simply stopping what you’re doing, thinking, saying, or being for twenty seconds, and then using that 20-seconds to notice what’s happening to you and around you. It\’s similar to,

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