Can doing the hokey-pokey help you lose weight?
Do you still clean your plate because there are starving children somewhere in the world? The same thing that holds us back can leverage us for success.
Mindset
Once I had a fear of spiders
There was a time that proximity to a spider would have sent me screaming. After 30+ years of studying hypnosis, that’s changed.
How hypnosis is like setting up a tent
A little preparation goes a long way toward a successful hypnosis session.
Do you hate change?
We’ve all heard the saying, “Change is hard.” But is it? Let’s look closer and find out what that really means and how to make change easier.
Stress management: Controlling internal voices
A hawk flew over the apartment complex last week, and everything went silent. Not a peep from trees that moments before had been alive with the sounds of birds. Usually, birds are swooping back and forth across the parking lot, picking up bugs and seeds to take to their nests, singing and scolding each other, …
Mother’s Day: Changing painful to peaceful
Every Mother’s Day, I marvel at the social-media photos of happy mothers and daughters. All those smiling faces. I wonder at the wistful memories from daughters who loved their moms, who miss their moms, whose moms were their friends. I am not that daughter, and she was not that mom. This post is for all …
Organizing our spaces: strategies and mindset
Jenni Holman of Leora Life Organization and Redesign and I just wrapped up the fourth and final episode in our short Facebook series about organizing. Whether you are organizing an office, a room, your entire business, or your whole house, there are ways to make the process less challenging and more satisfying. Jenni and I …
Beliefs and Body Art
Writer Steven Barnes posted something on his Facebook page the other day about how someone who (1) acts with a generous heart on behalf of another, is then (2) criticized by that other person because the “generous” action is perceived as insensitive, condescending, clueless, or whatnot, can (3) become irritated by the recipient’s ingratitude and …