Do you feel like you are over committed? Do you feel as though you spend more time juggling your scheduled than living your life? WHY? I’m pretty sure we’ve all been in a place in life that we didn’t feel like we had time really sit back and enjoy things. It happens to all of […]

As people start to pursue (or berate themselves for not pursuing) their New Year’s resolutions. I have been listening and looking around wondering who we owe things to and why. This month we are going to be looking at obligations and asking ourselves who we have decided we are obligated to and why. The definition […]

Have you ever felt like you may be addicted to someone? Or that you couldn’t get them out of your head even though you know they probably aren’t good for you? What if I told you that your nervous system could be wired to find you the wrong person?! RIGHT?! Yikes. So last time we […]

For some of us, romantic relationships feel easier than friendships. There is almost a more clear pathway to romance than friendship. We grow up hearing things like, “break ups are hard” and “they wouldn’t call them crushes, if they didn’t hurt.” But what do they tell us about friendship? They tell us to be friends […]

In my last blog I discussed industries (yes, ENTIRE indsustries) that profit from your pain. This time I want to talk about industries that profit from you being sick. If you have met me for more than about 5 minutes, you probably know that I love to laugh and watch/listen to comedy. One of my […]

I mean the question pretty littlerally. Who makes money when you feel badly? To be honest, the list is pretty long. There are not a lot of businesses that lift you up for profits.  Or perhaps more to the point, they seek to keep you down. From time to time, I will chuckle with my […]

Last time we talked about the type of self-sabotage that has you procrastinating and distracting yourself with outside forces. Today, let’s look at a very different kind of self-sabotage where we push other people away. Have you ever heard of a self fullfilling prophesy? If you haven’t, it basically means that if you decide something […]

We all deserve down time but when does down time spill over into avoiding what we really need or want to do and turn into self-sabotage? Self-sabotage is generally thought of as activities ranging from self-harming behaviors like; cutting, drug and alcohol use, self medicating with food and the most common form procrastinating (as in […]

First, happy THANKSgiving!! I’m grateful that you are here and I sincerely hope that today is filled with good things. Earlier today I was listening to a podcast and they quoted Steve Covey as saying, “The greatest need of a human being is to be understood, validated and appreciated.” When I think about all the […]