Indulging in Negative Emotion How broad is your emotional vocabulary? Most of us use the same handful of labels to identify how we feel: Happy, glad, sad, mad, fear. Some people have just two: “good” and “bad”. I have a list of feeling that...
What if….? Think of a goal that you’ve been working toward. Or perhaps one you’ve been thinking about forever, but haven’t really gotten serious about starting. Consider for a minute why not? The most common responses I get to this question...
One morning two years ago, I decided last-minute to swing into a Dollar Store to pick up some project supplies. As I stepped out of my car, I had a thought that I should leave my purse in the car. I immediately thought, “That’s ridiculous. I’m...
How to 10X Your Experience & Results While coaching a woman about her body image when she told me something I hear often. It sounded reasonable enough. “I’ll love my body when I lose some weight.” I helped her see that the reverse is...
For years, Dana has hated her body. Every time she sees her reflection in a full-length mirror she cringes and thinks, “Augh. I hate my body.” And then one day she hears a podcast on positive body image and decides that these negative thoughts are not serving her....
Fault vs. Responsibility One of the hardest tasks of reaching “emotional adulthood” is learning to separate fault from responsibility. This is partly due to definitions that exist, which use the two words interchangeably. In the context of taking...
