I am a recovering perfectionist. I say “recovering” because even though I’ve let go of the idea that being perfect is a good thing, I sometimes fall back into wanting to control how I appear to the outside world. If this is you too, you’re...
At the beginning of February, soon after returning from an awesome women’s business conference on the East Coast, I ended up getting sick with an epic case of influenza. I say epic because I ended up missing two full weeks of work and it took an additional month of...
I am starting to get overstressed. I can tell because this past week I slept poorly on several nights and woke up in the morning with butterflies in my stomach and tenseness in my shoulders. During the day, I’ve noticed a constant feeling of tightness in my chest....
Imagine a goal you want to achieve. Have you got it in your mind? Now flesh it out in really concrete terms, and imagine that you’ve achieved it. Answer this question: How do you know that you achieved it? For me, the goal that I recently achieved was to lose...
Sometimes I think that loneliness is a bad word in our society. To say that we feel lonely seems like an admission to being defective or different than all of our friends and neighbors who are posting beautiful photos on Facebook and Instagram. (So not true!) I want...
Defusion Quick Tips: Defusion is a technique that helps you take your mind less seriously by detaching from negative thoughts that cause emotional pain. It helps reduce rumination so that you can be more present to your environment. It helps you get out of your head....
