Life Coaching Tip - Are you trapped in a cycle of hustle, devoting all your energies to taking care of everyone else’s needs, urgently tending to daily obligations, and constantly putting out fires? Have you lost sight of the truly significant things that light you up? Yes? Then sister, keep …
When You Stop Resisting Your Brilliance, the World Shines!
Life Coaching Tip: As women, many of us were taught to shrink and hold ourselves back—as if this somehow will make the world a better place. Can you imagine the impact you would have if you stopped stubbornly resisting your brilliance? And better yet, can you imagine how YOU will feel when you fully …
Stop the Shame Game
Life Coaching Tip: Despite popular opinion, shame is not an effective motivator. Yet, many of us have spent a lifetime trying to shame ourselves into submission with our goals. If this is you, please know that this is not your fault. You were likely taught to shame yourself for your imperfections. …
Confidence Comes from Bold Action
I'm ever-so-grateful to Bold Journey Magazine for another opportunity to get my story out and encourage others to take big, courageous steps towards their dreams!Don't wait until you feel confident to move forward or you'll never get there. You must take the first few steps (or more) scared …
The Calamity Trap
Life Coaching Tip: I am closing out the series on the sneaky traps you might find yourself caught in when attempting to uplevel your life with one of the most menacing of all—the “Calamity Trap." This brilliant method of self-sabotage is so cunning that you likely have not realized it’s coming …
The Integrity-Breach Trap
Life Coaching Tip: The "Integrity-Breach Trap" is devious because it intensifies the limiting beliefs that are already buried inside us and fuels our shame—creating a relentless cycle that’s hard to break out of because it is self-reinforcing. But, as sinister as this trap is, it is also incredibly …
The Self-Gaslighting Trap
Life Coaching Tip: As I continue shining light on the sinister traps that can hold you back from fully embracing your dreams and desires, this article's focus is on the “Self-Gaslighting Trap”. I am committed to my mission of setting you free from your primal brain’s attempts to …
The Martyr Trap
Life Coaching Tip: The “Martyr Trap” is similar to the “Powerless Trap” from my last post. However, it’s a bit more insidious, because we live in a culture that teaches young girls and women that it’s virtuous to put the needs of others ahead of our own. This is reinforced when we are rewarded with …
The Powerless Trap
Life Coaching Tip: As women, thanks to early conditioning from the patriarchy—we can get wedged into the "Powerless Trap" rather easily. However, once we shine a light of awareness on your brain’s trickery, it will be easier for you to address your mindset and create better habits that serve you. If …
The Busy Trap
Life Coaching Tip: This article is about another insidious way we hold ourselves back from being the biggest, brightest, badassiest version of ourselves—the "Busy Trap!" As women, it can be easy to get stuck inside this trap. Please read on. . . and tell your primal brain I said, “sorry, not sorry!” …