We often spend so much time waiting for our turn to speak in conversations that we end up missing the opportunity to open our minds and hearts to another person’s experiences, thoughts, ideas and emotions.
Then we miss the opportunity to really connect with that person. And connection with others is where the richness, fun and inspiration of life truly lies.
Discover seven ways to become a better listener…
A friend recently asked me: “What qualities or attributes have led to your success?” An interesting question… After reflecting on my life, I summed up six core qualities that lead to success.
Determination, for example, helps you to deal with set-backs, hurdles, naysayers, and the length of time it takes to achieve some goals. The bigger the goal, often the longer the time commitment.
Discover the other five core qualities here…
Have you ever been inspired by a story about a wonderful human endeavour into the unknown – for example, Jessica Watson sailing solo around the world at 16? It takes guts, grit and courage to be adventurous, as well as a healthy amount of inner rebel!
Discover 5 ways developing your inner rebel can help you break free from anxiety…
In this article, I tell a story to illustrate how we take on other people’s fears, which actually makes them irrational fears for us.
You’ll also discover one of my personal irrational fears and a great little tip to reduce anxiety associated with irrational fears…
If you feel anxious much of the time, you actually develop strong neural pathways and reactive habits that get programmed into your whole system – to the point that your body is ‘anxious on autopilot.’ This creates mental, emotional and physical imbalances.
Anxiety treatment with a holistic counselling approach aims to address the problematic symptoms AND the root causes so you can feel whole and get your life back…
People who are emotionally resilient usually focus less on the loss or injustice of a situation and more on how they are going to get through it. This helps them to stay empowered, feel less of a victim and harness their internal resources.
The good news is that emotional resilience is a muscle that you can train and develop. Every time you get though a stressful or challenging situation, you grow more resilient.
There are three common threads running through stress, anxiety and depression.
But did you know that there are links between mental health issues and chronic pain?
Learn the causes of chronic pain and discover the six steps that will help you reduce both anxiety and chronic pain…
Experiencing consistent stress can lead to it becoming hardwired into your brain as your ‘normal’ state. However, new neural networks can develop in as little as three seconds! We just need to learn to interrupt the old pattern and start to program a new one.
Smelling Young Living’s, 100% pure, essential oils is enough to interrupt the habituated stress response and help you stay calm…
True forgiveness can only come from an empowered state – not affording someone to have ongoing power over you and not holding yourself victim to self-judgment.
As human beings we do make mistakes. It’s unavoidable.
Learn three tools to help you forgive yourself and others from a place of strength and compassion…
We all know that our bodies, relationships and performance will suffer and life’s not much fun if we’re stressed all the time. In fact, stress is now recognised as the number one cause of disease in the western world.
Additionally, not addressing stress can lead to anxiety becoming your new ‘normal’…
