Building Courage Muscles

You know those moments when there is something you want to say or a conversation you think needs to be started, something you know in your bones is

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Resisting Feelings

We speak a lot about the importance of paying attention to what you do to stop yourself from feeling what you’re authentically feeling.  Suppressing our feelings takes a

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Do you get what you resist?

Have you ever noticed that you get what you resist?  Take a look right now.  If you can’t see it in your own life, look around you at

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Do you have an allergy to your emotions?

An allergy is a reaction to what is usually a harmless foreign substance.  Our immune system treats the foreign substance e.g. pollen, peanuts, dust, etc. as if it

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Enough Compromising

The conventional approach to compromise is that it is a necessary component for healthy relationships.  The usual line is: To have a good relationship, you need to compromise.

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You Hurt My Feelings

"You hurt my feelings" is something most of us dread hearing.  As such, we often bend ourselves into pretzels to avoid hearing it, or use it as a

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What it takes to maintain the right form

Have you ever tried to address an issue with your posture or perhaps how to perform an exercise, like a squat, using the proper form?  When you take

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Restarting

The other day I was at lunch with two friends who were working something out that was of so little consequence, it could barely even be called an

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One-tasking

When did we start taking pride in being able to do many things at once?  In fact, it is MUCH more difficult to do one thing and only

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How do you treat an overreaction?

Sometimes it is the easiest to see what causes us to overreact around the people most dear to us.  Someone leaves a cabinet door open, or a dish

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