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How to Make Any Decision When You're Overwhelmed, Anxious, and Confused

Whatever’s happening in your world, if you’re feeling overwhelmed, anxious, weary of judgement, confused AF, and afraid of doing things wrong, you are sooooo not alone.

What Firing My Life Coach Taught Me About Trust

My work with this coach was challenging, transformative, and led to shifts in thinking I’d been building toward my entire life. But when she crossed a boundary I was forced to end our coaching relationship - and here’s what I learned.

What Rehab Taught Me About Surviving a Pandemic

Watching life turn upside down has reminded me of another time my world crashed down around me: going to rehab for drug addiction.

Though I’m the first to admit that dumpster fire was entirely my own doing, I can’t help but see some clear parallels between surviving that burn and this one.

Dare I say it, but rehab prepared me for this. And in case it can aid you to, I’d like to share a few parallels I’ve observed.

How to Be the Hero of Your Story: Tips on Pain, Re-framing, and Transformation

With all that’s wrong politically (and in the world) it’s easy to want a “hero” in the form of an ideal candidate or sweeping (and quick) change in our system— I know I find myself fantasizing about that.

But that hero has already arrived – and it’s us.

‘We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.’

A Creepy Hitchhiker Taught Me About Certainty: How to Stop Waiting to Make Decisions About Life

The man who had looked like a funky hippie from afar looked pretty sketchy and creepy up close. His body had a strange tick and some teeth were missing; though the years have dulled my memory, I specifically recall that his eyes had this terrifying look – a look that we all register deep down in our animal body. Is this what it means to be certain?

I Got My Miracle Baby - And I Still Kept Wanting More

I had a pretty scary pregnancy.

There were some abnormalities in Tilly’s fetal development that were what the doctor described as “pink flags.”

At the time we were told that these markers could be nothing OR they could mean the absolute worst thing: not getting to meet her at all.

Removing the Mask: How to Be Who You Are and Deal with People Leaving

I’ve never had as many people unsubscribe from my blog as I have in the past few months – we’re talking some big digits - it’s been wild.

Seeing that I’d lost subscribers was something that used to get me really down– it made me think: “Did I offend them? Overwhelm them?” Or the highest offense in my book…“Was I boring?”

Turns out, I was on the exact right track…

It's Not Hard To Get Sober: How Recovery from Addiction Showed Me What Else I can Do

All you’ve really gotta do in order to be physically sober is NOT get high, drunk, or generally partake in things that alter your mind or body.

No, the real work when I got clean was examining all the things that made me need to escape my life in the first place:

Ditch the Poopy Polar Express: How Watching Your Thoughts can Help the Post-Holiday Blues

Here we are the day after Christmas (still smack dab in the middle of Hanukkah) and I don’t think I’m alone in having an “ugh” feeling.

Stop Waiting for an Epiphany: How To Make the Right Decisions in Life

I spent a lot of my life waiting to be certain.

I waited for the “burning bush” moment in so many areas: career, relationships, and big decisions in general.

Take for example, the decision to have a child.

This is arguably the BIGGEST decision that a person can make in life – definitely not one to take lightly, right?