The path to growth is being comfortable with the uncomfortable. I can not change what I do not acknowledge. I am unpacking my own internal racial biases. I am listening. Desiree Adaway Ibram X. Kendi Rachel Cargie Austin Channing Brown Erika Hines I am continuing to learn. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White […]
Lately I’ve noticed this voice in the back of my head. It’s been there a long time. I just wasn’t aware of the message I was listening to. This voice likes me to believe “it’s all on me!!!!” It really doesn’t matter what “it” is. Before I became aware of this voice, I often acted […]
It’s all around you. The messages that have told you time and time again. Your worthiness comes from your achievements. My friend it’s time to STOP this harmful cultural programming. We’ve been lied to. And these lies are what’s getting in the way of you obtaining your goals. I see this so often. Here are […]
When I ask people what they believe about themselves, they say things like this … I am hard working. I care deeply. I must work really hard. I never get it all done. I am not lovable. I can’t have what I really want. I will never be enough. What do you believe about […]
I am a Tiger Daughter. I was raised by a Tiger Mom. What did that mean for me? It meant that perfection was ABSOLUTE, mistakes were not tolerated. Emotions and happiness could wait. Success was dependent on achievement. Mistakes would be a permanent scar that would always follow me. Welcome to my childhood. Yes my […]
Do you ask yourself this question? Do you exercise and feel that you are careful with what you eat? So then why aren’t you losing weight? Or maybe you made a commitment to yourself this summer that this would be the time that you would put yourself first and finally lose those extra pounds. But […]
Summer is coming, what are your plans for the summer? Are you dreading what you will wear, if you will go to pool parties? Is that how you want to live? I have lost 23 pounds and not by going on a DIET or by strict workouts. Instead I have tuned into my body to […]
In my coaching world, I hear “change your thoughts to change your life” a lot. Yet clients often tell me that they have already been trying to be positive, but still can’t seem to make any real lasting changes in their lives. I commonly hear things like: Why can’t I seem to lose weight? Why […]
Random House and I are in partnership again this year offering the FREE “Holiday Book Basket.” This free batch of books will include a selection of their most popular titles of 2009 along with a collection of holiday themed books, including the most famous holiday book ever, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! To enter the […]
This morning I am interviewing Grechen Rubin. She has a blog where she is working on The Happiness Project. Check out “My Secrets of Adulthood” post. I will be discussing one of her items in that post: “You can choose what you do; you can’t choose what you like to do.” Check out her blog […]