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9 ways to stop ruining your life

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 Get online private coaching  Unlock Your Potential with Private Coaching.  Join my private coaching program to: Define your goals Uncover your strengths and growth areas Create a powerful personal mantra Discover your unique superpower Identify your core values... and so much more! Don't miss this life-changing journey. Get in contact with me online Are you unhappy with where you're at in your life right now? Are things not quite going the way that you envisioned they would? If so, don't worry –– you are not alone. From average, every-day people to worldwide celebrities, every single person on this planet has experienced moments of disappointment and frustration as they navigate their lives, and often it’s avoidable. Thankfully, there are 9 ways to stop ruining your life.  Overview The 9 ways to stop ruining your life include: Have a goal; Step out of your cave; Take risks; Get out of your head;  Produce;  Welcome feedback;  Be vulnerable;  Embra...

Life working in progress

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“Hi I’m Lori and I used to be a glorious mess. Now I’m a work in progress.” This is how I would introduce myself if there was a recovery group for adults dealing with the consequences of the dumb decisions they made in their teenage years. But who doesn't have issues in life? I’m no longer a teenager, but I still remember those years as a teenager; continually battling other people's expectations, desperate to be my own person but not knowing how to make good decisions on my own, not finding my ‘people’ and feeling the pressure to be like others in order to have some ‘people’, seeing the emotional pain that others were experiencing at the hands of the ‘cool kids’ and not being able to fix it, feeling like no-one really wanted to listen to ME. Even though I know how it felt to lose a sibling to suicide and struggle with depression as I went through that myself. My parents’ approach to parenting (which I thought was normal at the time) was based on not telling the truth about my ...

Finding structure in your life

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I’ve never been the kind of person to describe myself as a control freak. For the most part, I have struggled with anxiety and I tend to lose my flow when life throws curveballs at me. But lately I’ve been starting to wonder where the easygoing part of me disappeared to but I have been dealing with big challenges since I was young.  I had two siblings commit suicide in my life and that left a mark on my life.  I’m going to guess that the majority of us would prefer to be in control of our lives rather than having someone else determine everything for us. This is definitely true for me, but I don’t think I’d realized quite how much control played a part in my life until I felt like I’d lost it control, that is. However, I was feeling anxious and out of touch with myself for a few years, and I eventually realized it was because I was trying to control things that were most of the time  out  of my control for example I was abused by someone who breached protec...