GUILT, SHAME, RACISM, ADDICTION, & AWARENESS

What do you do when you have overwhelming feelings of shame and guilt OR you completely ignore such feelings because they feel too painful. Granted, I am barely scratching the surface here and I know that (so no need to dog me out for being shallow) but you may find something useful here. If you want to hop on a call to go deeper, PM me. I would be honored.

WHAT TO DO WHEN FEELING OVERWHELMING AGITATION

It's a pretty crazy time in our world right now. I feel pretty agitated and I know many others do, too. What can we do to make the most of our agitation? Listen in. I hope you find this video helpful. I'd love to know how you're doing in the midst of all that's going on. Please feel free to share. I'm interested.

HOW TO GET MOMENTUM WHEN YOU’RE STUCK

Many folks simply don't know how to get momentum right now, with their business, with what's going on in the world, or perhaps with personal issues. In this video, I give you a simple tip on how to overcome that and get going. Take a look and let me know what you think.

HOW TO BE YOUR BEST SELF

What do you believe it means to be your best self? In this video, I describe a misunderstanding about what it means to be our best selves and what we can do instead. You CAN be your best self and it may be easier than you think. Give the video a listen and let me know how it is for you.

HOW TO CREATE NEW HABITS

In this video, I give you a couple of powerful tips that will help you create a new habit with more ease, leading to greater assurance that you will stick to your new habit and improve your life.

WAKING UP TO YOUR NARRATIVE BRINGS MORE EASE & FLOW

 We all have narratives or stories that run through our minds almost continually. Those narratives basically run our lives. If the narratives are unconscious,  are at their mercy. If we can make those narratives conscious, then choice now becomes available. Take a listen to this video to see how narratives work and what we can do about them so that we can experience more ease and peace.

THE WORLD NEEDS YOU, HERE'S HOW

It's not easy standing up in this crazy world right now. It's not easy having your voice. There is so much noise and meanness out there but the world needs you. You're particular voice. You're particular gifts. Your particular light. In today's video, I give you a couple of tips that can help you show up with a bit more ease.

HOW TO OVERCOME DIVISIVENESS

There is a lot of noise out there right now and that noise tends to divide us. I believe that solutions will be found only as we come together. But how can we when we have such extreme views? I offer a tip here. I believe it begins with self-awareness and clarity. Take a listen.

WHAT TO DO WHEN FEELING DOWN

Life is a roller coaster. We know this but sometimes we believe it shouldn't be so. In this video, I give you some tips about what to do and what not to do when you are feeling down. It may be a little different perspective than you are accustomed to so take a listen.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU’VE REALLY MESSED UP

I don't know about you but when I mess up, I can go right into a stressful thought storm. Once in that storm, I become overwhelmed and can even become paralyzed or stuck. Have you experienced the same? In today's video, I describe a mess up I discovered this morning and how I found my way through it. I will give you a couple of tips to help you find your way through your mess-ups much more easily.

HOW TO SETTLE DOWN IN THE MIDST OF URGENCY

We come up against a sense of urgency routinely, it seems. In those moments, we tend to resort to "now or never". It can feel overwhelming, leading to rash decisions or shutting down. What can we do in the face of all the urgency so that we don't make mistakes or get consumed? In this video, I offer you a very practical and useful tip. Take a listen.

WANT TO ENJOY LIFE MORE? HERE’S HOW

In this video, I share a compelling quote from a Mary Oliver poem and I talk about how you can find more enjoyment in each day regardless of what's going on out there in this chaotic world. The tip I share here will help you to show up more powerfully for yourself and this world that is in great need. If you practice this, you will feel more alive and awake.

WHERE IS YOUR ATTENTION AND WHY IT MATTERS

In today's video, I want to talk to you about where you place your attention. Attention creates the pathway and action follows, so it's vitally important that you learn to see where you are placing your attention. As you focus your attention intentionally in the right direction, you will find more peace and clarity in your life regardless of what's going on out there.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR A DIFFICULT SITUATION

I awoke thinking of all that's going on in our world right now. The collective stress is palpable and I've heard from some of you that your individual stress is overwhelming at times. In today's video, I offer a simple yet powerful tool to help you prepare to face a difficult situation. Don't let the simple nature of this practice fool you. Play with it and see how it can bring you more clarity and flow. Here is the link to the document I mention: https://tinyurl.com/move-thru-difficulty

HOW TO STAY SANE IN DIFFICULT TIMES

I awoke this morning feeling the collective stress. As lay in bed, I realized that I must be intentional about taking extra special care of myself if I'm to be able to navigate these difficult times. In this video, I give you several tips that can help you bring more ease and flow into your day. I hope you'll give them a try!

STOP COLLAPSING DURING DIFFICULT TIMES

In this video, I share a bit of my struggle navigating the new normal in which we find ourselves as we live through a pandemic and social justice movement. Change is not linear. It's always messy. We've got to find ways to ground ourselves so that we can give our best gifts to a world in great need. I offer some tips right here that I hope you will find helpful.

HOW TO CALM MENTAL CHATTER AND LOWER STRESS

It is a difficult and exciting time to be alive. The world is in great need and it is important that each of us step up and give our very best gifts. That's extremely difficult to do when we are caught up in so much mental chatter and overwhelm. In this training, I offer some very simple and practical ways to calm the mental chatter and lower your stress levels. Download eBook Here

HOW LIVING IN THE MOMENT CAN HELP YOU

In this video, I go more deeply into one of the tips I gave you in the last video. This tip was new for many of my viewers and they wanted more. So, I explain how living in the moment can actually help you access your innate wisdom and resilience, bringing you back to clarity and finding your way forward from there. It's all about waking up to where your attention is. You can find the eBook in the last video.

DO IT SCARED!

In today's video, I talk about taking off the blinders of perfection so that we don't miss the opportunities around us. How often do we wait for perfection, courage, or confidence before we take action? How much do we miss out on because of those blinders? In this video, I invite you to move forward whether or not you have full clarity, confidence, courage, or perfection.

DON’T AIM FOR SUCCESS

Yes, I know this could seem a tad oxymoronic, after all, we've been taught to absolutely aim for success. There's a saying, if you don't aim for anything, you'll achieve nothing. I tend to agree, however, in aiming for success and even happiness, we may be aiming for the wrong thing. In this video, I talk about what we could aim for instead of success and how that may get us closer to where we want to go. Take a listen!

HOW TO SAVE A LIFE

In this video, I share a passage from a book entitled Welcome to the Circle by Jake Orlowitz. This passage is all about how to save a life when the only life you can save is your own. This is exceedingly important and I talk a bit about my own experience of breaking down over 20 years ago and what was needed. Caring for others can be exhausting and overwhelming but there is a way that it can be less burdensome when you understand what Jake and I are sharing here.

HOW TO HELP SOMEONE IN NEED

In the last video, we talked about the importance of saving your own life if you want to help save another life. This video goes in to more practical ways that you can offer solid help to another. I offer some DON’Ts in addition to some DOs. I’ve put it all in a document for you.

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FOCUS ON THE OUTCOME, NOT THE PROBLEM

In today's video, I talk a bit about brain science and how to support the brain to work for us instead of against us. There are three parts to our brain: the cerebrum, cerebellum, and the brain stem. The brain stem (also known as the reptilian brain) can sometimes wreak a bit of havoc on us when it gets triggered because it is desperate to keep us safe. It can feel threatened even when there is no real threat. So, we have to bring our cerebrum online to override our trigger happy brain stem. Tune in to find out how.

TRAINING YOUR BRAIN TO SEE THE GOOD

Today's video is a follow-up to the last. We go a bit deeper into how your brain works and how to override some of its limitations. The brain's primary functions are to keep you safe and to conserve energy. Overall, it does a great job but sometimes it works against what's best for us and we have intentionally override it. The good news is that we can!

WHAT TO DO WHEN OVERCOME WITH EMOTION

In today's video, we continue our discussion about the brain and how to optimize it to work for us rather than against us. You may be surprised to learn what's really needed when you are feeling bad. Experiment with the idea I present in this video. I and many of my clients have found it life-changing.

BRAIN HACKS TO HELP YOU FEEL BETTER

In this video, I continue our discussion about optimizing the brain to work for you rather than against you. These are some very practical tips that will help you shift out of craving, gloom, anxiety, and other "bad" feelings. Learn how to balance your brain activity and reset it to normal so that you can feel better.

HOW TO REDUCE SUFFERING

In today's video, I talk about how you can reduce your suffering and live with more ease and flow. It's important that we interrupt our habits of thought that are stressful. I talk about one way to do that here.

HOW TO EXPERIENCE MORE FLOW AND EASE

In today's video, I talk about how can experience less suffering and more ease. We tend to suffer so much because we are caught up in habits of thoughts or stories and narratives that we've created in order to help us manage day to day circumstances. Neuroscience shows us that we don't experience reality directly, rather, we experience what we think about reality. So it's vital to be aware of our stories and make certain that we don't overidentify with our stories, thoughts, and feelings.

LIVE FROM IMAGINATION RATHER THAN INDOCTRINATION

Are you living from indoctrination or imagination? If you want more flow, ease, and enjoyment, learn to activate and live from your imagination. We’ve all been indoctrinated by families, cultures, and religions but we can become aware of that and live from a freer place that gives us more creativity, more juice, more enjoyment, and more authenticity. Take a listen.

HOW TO FIND MORE COMPASSION FOR OTHERS

In today's video, I continue our discussion about the dangers and value of living from our imaginations. Imagination can lead to compassion as we put ourselves in others' shoes. Dogma separates us. Imagination can connect us. Life is a beautiful, rich, and nuanced gray. Imagination can open our hearts and our creativity.