Are you addicted to gold stars?
Being busy can often be like collecting gold stars.
How to Say No and Mean It!
Let me paint a common picture . . . You’re sitting at your desk, working busily on a project you have to finish when you hear a gentle tap at your office door. You look up to see Jan’s bright awkwardly smiling face, and she asks, “You got a minute?” “Sure,” you reply (you really […]
Freedom from Defining Yourself by Negative Self-Talk
I recently celebrated another birthday and while I am normally not one to focus on big celebrations, I’m also not one to get caught up in the whole negative conversation around aging. For me, aging has been a celebration of the wisdom and understanding I’ve gained and the relationship I’ve developed with myself. But this […]
Do You Value Your Worth?
Is money the real reason you’re staying in your relationship, or does it have more to do with your personal self worth, find out here.
Is Money the Reason You Stay… or Is It Something Even Deeper?
Is money the real reason you’re staying in your relationship, or does it have more to do with your personal self worth, find out here.
Whose life are you living?
For years, I sublimated my own desires in service of my husband’s. I wasn’t living my own life. Poet David Whyte has said that if you are living the life you are meant to live, someone will inevitably feel betrayed by it. My ex-husband can legitimately say that I betrayed him by having an affair. […]
Are you keeping money secrets?
Secrecy about money is quite common in families, especially between siblings, and between parents and adult children. We’re secretive about money for a variety of reasons. Usually, it’s a result of one of the following: (1) we feel we have to protect our money from others, or (2) we feel we’re going to be judged […]
Do you feel worthy enough to receive?
In order to have more, we have to change our thinking, behaviors, and habits related to self-worth—little by little. As we do that, we can continue to increase our “worth threshold.” This means that we allow ourselves to receive more and more. We walk around thinking, “Hey, I will happily let myself receive! Give me […]
Whose voice are you listening to?
Who are you? Are you the caretaker, fixer, problem child, perfectionist (insert your identity here________). Do you want that to be your identity? If you were to think back, is it possible this identity is tied to a feeling of unworthiness? Here’s what I mean. When we become aware of our beliefs or take the […]