Anita Moorjani was in stage 4B of her cancer when she was rushed to the hospital, suffering from full-on organ failure. It was then that she had her near-death experience (NDE), which would change her life forever, and which, of course, is the subject of her book, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, […]
A Near Death Experience and the Westboro Baptist Church
The Office/The Odyssey: You Decide
Long ago, in my first round of “I must escape corporate hell,” I took a job as a receptionist – at that time my dream “easy” job. We all have these – jobs that we imagine to be so much easier than our own current employment. Some of my former coworkers, for example, dreamed of […]
Decoding Body Shame
I recently watched a Kickstarter video for a documentary called Embrace, which intends to unite women across the world to love their bodies. I thought it was great, and I encourage you to check it out here. (They are fully funded, and this is not a pitch to get you to donate.) What struck me […]
A Shame Interrupt for “Being Broken”
I just had an intuitive reading. It was unexpected and incredible. I received an answer to a burning question I’ve had for nearly two years, and the answer – though so beautiful – left me feeling completely ashamed. Like I was broken and still had to fix myself. Like all the glue I have applied […]
I am…Really? Are You Sure?
One of my guilty pleasures is watching YouTube parodies of music videos, and one of my favorites is Bart Baker’s parody of “What About Love” by Austin Mahone. (If you don’t know who Austin Mahone is, don’t worry, it just means you’re older than 13. I had to go look him up.) In it, Bart’s […]
Busting Through Dream Blocks
Is there some area of your life that – despite your wishes – you just can’t seem to change? This week we’re going to look at one potential reason for that: unconscious ideas about problems that will come with your dream. These are not dark buried traumas I’m talking about – just associations you didn’t […]
What Does Success Mean?
This week we’re looking at the all-too-easy but often overlooked technique of visualization, and this post is ending up very different than the step-by-step to happy visualization that I was expecting to write. One of the best elements of writing this blog is doing the background research to support what I already believe to be […]
Truth vs. Velociraptor
It’s our final week on the Inner Lizard series, which means we get to look at my very favorite lizard-soothing strategy, best used when you start to feel like your inner lizard is the one running your life. One of my favorite moments in coach training was inspired by a discussion of this topic, when my […]
Are You Sure About That?
Friends, I have been happily engrossed with books about the brain lately, and this post is the first in a series inspired by my recent reading. One of the very coolest things about being human, to me, is that we are smart enough to understand how our own brains work and then use that knowledge […]
Like Bleach for Thought Stains
This week I’ve been listening to the audiobook The Vortex, by Abraham-Hicks, and am so in love with it that I could easily spend the next year writing posts just about this book. Today I want to share one of the tools they provide for shifting your thoughts. I particularly like this one for thoughts […]