There are so many diet plans out there. Each of them have likely had success stories, as well as people who didn’t find the plan effective to lose the weight or to keep it off. We are not typically overweight due to a lack of health information. We generally know what foods are healthy for […]

Eating out of boredom? Stressed? Using chocolate as a reward? Numbing with wine? Feeling as though an edible treat will fix anything and everything that is wrong? Maybe it’s time to change your relationship with FOOD.  I grew up below the poverty line, so my early relationship with FOOD was scarcity. I wasn’t worried about

When you learn how to manage your time with your prefrontal cortex, which means that you’re planning ahead of time what you want to do on purpose and not just reacting to whatever is going on around you, you’ll be able to plan something deliberately ahead of time, make decisions ahead of time for how

Our first waking thought of the day is “I didn’t get enough sleep.” The next one is “I don’t have enough TIME.” Before we even sit up in bed, we’re already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. This mind-set of scarcity lives at the very heart of our jealousies, our greed, our prejudice,

All ambitious goals are created on a pile of failures. You can successfully take your planned ACTION toward your goal, but you might fail in the result that you want to create. If you are taking ACTION because you need evidence in order to believe that you will achieve your goal or you’re going to

Sometimes the reason we reach our goals or give up on our goals has to do with our PERSISTENCE, or perhaps lack thereof.  PERSISTENCE can be defined as the sustained effort necessary to induce faith in achieving our goals. It is also a firm continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty.  How

This month I have been focusing on designing an ambitious goal. As soon as you’ve written down your specific ambitious goal, fear, doubt, and shame will inevitably come up.   Your brain will want to knock you down with thoughts like, “How are you going to do that?” I start writing down all the doubtful thoughts,

This month I am focusing on designing an ambitious goal for 2022. Your life does not just happen to you. You don’t just live it as if it were already preprogrammed and you’re just the one walking through it like you’re walking through a forest and you just see what comes. You get to actually

Do you feel stuck, numb, frustrated and just going through the motions? Then it’s time to make a change!  Trying the same things in 2022 is going to continue to create the same results that you have now. To create different results in your life, you are going to need to do things differently. No

When my marriage was at its lowest point, I convinced my husband to go to marriage counseling. Initially I found it helpful as it was a safe place to discuss painful feelings that we had been ignoring for years. Diminishing returns happened, and suddenly we stalled. Then the counselor told me that I needed to

As an American living abroad, this time of year brings to mind family and giving thanks, or another buzz word, GRATITUDE.  GRATITUDE is the antidote to foreboding joy. Maybe you aren’t familiar with the phrase that Brene Brown uses, foreboding joy. Basically it is two very different emotions that many of us experience simultaneously. There