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16 Reasons to Try Something Even if You’re Not “Good Enough”
Instead of waiting until you become an enlightened master (or the perfect timing, or you have more time, or or or…) here’s why you might give it a go right now.
Give Yourself Permission to Do Whatever You Want
Do you wish someone would give you permission to just…sleep? To blow off responsibilities and do something awesome? To quit your job? To spend all day puttering in the garden? Permission granted.
Give Yourself a Nudge Without Being Mean
You can learn to soothe your anxious parts, make space for new perspectives, and move forward bravely—and with compassion. Here are practical examples of how you can talk to yourself more kindly (and still take action) when doubts are holding you back.
How to Tell the Difference Between Desire and Fear (Soul vs. Brain)
You have so many voices in your head trying to take charge. How can you tell what’s intuition and what’s fear? What does the soul sound like, and what should you do when it speaks to you?
A Field Guide to Experimenting With Life
Taking life too seriously? Stuck in your head and ready to take action? Here are strategies and prompts to help you follow your curiosity and create a light-hearted experiment.
Rage Journaling: What Would You Scream if No One Could Hear?
Repressed emotions can weigh us down, fester into resentment, and cause chronic pain and anxiety. In this post, I teach one of my favorite and most life-changing tools: rage journaling.
Juggling *Life* During a Hard Time
When you’re having a hard time, life doesn’t stop to wait for you. This is very unfair. BUT…here’s a practical technique for juggling life when you’re stressed and exhausted.
How to Move Forward Without Planning, Deadlines, or Pressure
If deadlines and plans are becoming a source of shame, punishment, failure, there's a better way to take action. I share strategies for people who have trouble slowing down and people who have trouble getting going.
Free Your Mind With Creative Play
My mom and aunt join me to answer a reader question about getting out of your head and into the joy of creative play! Suze Corte and Nancy Waldman are sisters, lifelong artists, and my personal creativity partners and mentors. Audio conversation.
Work Is Killing Me. Should I Stick It Out or Leave?
A few things to consider if you’re unhappy in your job and contemplating quitting.
Developing a Stress-Relief Toolkit for Hard Times
Each of us has a toolkit of supportive things we turn to during hard times. As you navigate the highs and lows of life, try new tools and ask these questions before you add them to your kit.
Getting Cozy to Relieve Stress and Anxiety
Learn why coziness activates our ventral vagal state to help us feel warm, connected, regulated, content, and safe. Coziness isn’t just for fun—it helps alieviate stress and anxiety.
6 Practices for Lowering the Bar and Living More Sustainably
If you’re always striving to meet impossible standards, I suggest gently starting to lower your expectations and increase your resources. Here are six ways to practice both. Audio version available.
How to Actually Have More Fun
Five list-making prompts to help inspire you to slow down, access your joy, and have more fun. Audio version available.
Overcommitting: Taking on More Than You Can Handle
Why we say “yes” to more than we can handle and how to find greater balance. Audio version available.
When to Take a Break From Self-Care Techniques
I’m a firm believer in having a treasure chest full of self-care tools. However, sometimes we use these tools to escape, shame, isolate, or put further pressure on ourselves. There are times when it’s best to step away from the bag of tricks and just be human. Audio version available.
9 Ways to Slow Down in a High-Speed World
Even when life is speeding by, we can find oasis in our experience. Here are nine ways to practice slowing down and letting the moments of life unfold with more ease. Audio version available.
9 Strategies for Recovering Perfectionists, People-Pleasers, and Overachievers
Here are a few strategies I’ve developed over the years to calm the perfectionist, overachieving, people-pleasing beast inside me that says I’m never enough. Audio version available.
17 Ways to Support Rest & Recovery
Building in recovery time is vital for our wellbeing. But how do we recover when what we need is constantly changing? Here are a few tips for rest and recovery. Audio version available.
Embracing Limitations in Daily Life
Embracing your limitations can reduce feelings of scarcity and overwhelm and provide you with more freedom and relief. Here are a few practical examples of how to invite in acceptance. Audio version available.