Happy New Year!
I'm anti-new-year-resolutions.
After years of setting them, failing them, and subsequently beating myself up about them, I've become less focused on resolutions, planning and executing things “to do” and focused more on how I want to be.
Read MoreIn my last post of the year, I'm sharing with you my wishes for us in 2022.
I wish that we nurture and cultivate a compassionate relationship with ourselves.
I wish that we stop sabotaging ourselves.
I wish that we confidently live our life with authenticity.
Read MoreThe human species focuses a lot on training the physical body - your abs, biceps, quads.
I'd argue that we should be training the following muscles just as much, if not more than, our abs: our muscles of self awareness, compassion, discernment and intuition.
Self awareness isn't a skill that you simply have, or don't have.
It's a muscle that you can choose to train.
Read MoreThere was a time when I didn't feel like I was a good enough guide, coach or mentor.
Everything I was seeing online from other coaches were testimonials about how they helped their clients make $10K months.
So I started to compare myself, consumed by this nagging limiting belief:
I don't help my clients make $10K months so the work I do is not important and I'm not good enough.
Read MoreIf you're anything like me and the clients I work with, you feel the feels.
Maybe you’ve even been called “too emotional” or “too sensitive” (fyi, me too, more than once).
Or growing up, you weren't taught how to feel (another fyi, me neither).
So now as an adult, part of your survival strategy has been to NOT feel. To instead bury your feelings deep into your subconscious for “later”.
Any time anyone refers to me as a “healer” or that I “healed” them, I cringe.
Personally, I don't resonate with this title.
Here's why:
No one else can heal you but yourself.
You are your own healer.
Now, this is not to say that we don't need support because we can heal ourselves. Or that you have to go about this alone.
Read MoreOver the last week I've been reflecting a lot on gratitude.
You've probably heard it all (at least I know I have): practice gratitude, be grateful, have a gratitude journal, list the things you're grateful for regularly.
But then I found myself stuck.
Yes, stuck with gratitude. And I'm sure I'm not alone.
Read MoreSomething I hear often is the belief that rest is unproductive.
I hear this from my coaching clients.
From potential clients who book clarity calls with me.
From people on Instagram.
From my friends and family.
From former colleagues.
I'm not surprised that this is such a strong belief across all my communities because here's what we've all been conditioned to believe:
Read MoreRecently, Thich Nhat Hanh, celebrated his 95th continuation day (birthday).
In honour of this, I spent time reflecting on how much his practical teachings on mindfulness have supported and transformed my life. And through the inspiration of his teachings, I use mindfulness and mindful ways of being to support my community.
Back in 2017, I was honoured to meet Thich Nhat Hanh in person.
Read MoreIf we haven't had the pleasure to meet in person or online yet and you didn't know, I wear my hair with a shaved side.
I love when I get it re-shaved… it feels amazingly fresh!
But, have I ever told you how SCARED I was to do this?
Read MoreChange feels empowering BECAUSE it's scary.
When we experience change, and we shift the baseline of what it's like to feel safe in a new or different way of being, we start to feel empowered.
We remind ourselves that we aren't controlled by our fears.
That we can do scary things.
Read MoreWhat has supported me in stepping into a fuller, more expansive version of me… that no longer cringes when I think about “who am I”?
I embody the idea that my identity is fluid.
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