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Handle uncertainty  Let’s take a moment to think about the concept of choice. These days we obviously have been given a reality that feels like there’s not much choice, right? We have to stay home. We have to follow the rules out of respect for everybody else. We have to be mindful of our community and the world around us. It’s easy to feel powerless, given the circumstances we’re living in. We feel powerless over the political issues that are playing out in the world. We feel helpless in the midst of the global pandemic and the daily terrors we experience through our newsfeed. But even with all this, we have the power to choose our own perspective on our circumstances. We can choose to show up every day looking for solutions rather than problems. We can choose to turn off the news. We can choose to be mindful and conscious of how our actions affect others. This is a time when we want to really become aware of the ways we’re stuck in our feelings of helplessness. So I want to share...

 Overcome mindset blocks  We hold ourselves back from doing a lot of things. We like to blame our circumstances and other people, but we hold ourselves back more than we might like to admit or even realize. If you have this amazing goal or plan for your future, it can be hard to follow through if your mind isn’t in the right place. This is why I teach CBT cognitive behavioural therapy. It could be related to finding a partner, asking for a promotion, starting a family, or even moving to another country, Or even losing weight.  When your mindset around these things is skeptical, critical, or untrusting, it’s going to be that much harder to make your plans happen. This is why CBT is helpful for this type of thing.  To make the changes you’ve been wanting to make for years, it’s time to take a look at your current mindset and see where you might be holding yourself back. In this post, I’m sharing some tips to help you identify and reconstruct your current mindset around...

Smart goal setting    We all have things that we want to change and goals that we are working towards: lose 15 pounds, drink more   water ,   exercise   more often…But how do we turn those dreams into reality? In this post we review SMART goals and explain why they help us achieve success and turn those dreams and goals into reality! So what is a SMART goal? A SMART goal is a way to make progress towards our goals. It is a way to break a vision into smaller, actionable steps that can be taken each week. An example of this would be to take a 3 month goal, such as “I would like to be going to the gym for 1 hour three times per week” and turning it into a SMART goal of “I will go the the store on Wednesday at 10am to buy a pair of sneakers this week.” You feel energized and encouraged when you achieve that goal, and are ready to set a new goal for the next week! Each week with small “wins” leads to confidence and takes you one step closer to your 3 month goal. Howe...

  Have you been searching for inspiration, trying to find the motivation to start something? To make a dent in that project, to exercise, to eat healthy, to do that one thing you’ve dreamed about for a while? I think we’re used to ‘searching’ for motivation. Pinterest, blog posts, videos, speeches, books – we use these resources to ‘find’ inspiration, but are we really just creating a distraction for ourselves?  Sure, you can be inspired by someone. You can be inspired by an idea or a concept, absolutely! But what gets you to start doing is YOU . Let’s say you get dinner with a friend and you’re talking about your lack of motivation lately. You’re having a hard time getting out of bed in the morning to do the same old routine tasks every day. Your friend might give you some great advice. She or he might tell you about how they wakes up each day and asks themselves, How can I be better than I was yesterday? That’s pretty motivational. If you’ve been having a...

   It seems like we are surrounded by negativity  With overwhelming access to information and a constant bombardment of details surrounding the most of us up to the minute of tragedy the likes of suicide. It is easy to get stuck in a negative space.  This is not a healthy or helpful place to live. This is not about acting from a place of denial, It is about learning how to deal with hard things from a healthier perspective, one that is based on facts and wisdom, not on confusion and fear. I know from my own experience of suicide losses I’ve had. So, let’s look at techniques as strategies. Techniques and Strategies For Freedom and Empowerment I’ve built these strategies, these techniques and these tools that still allow me to function effectively in the world, they allow me to be a realist, they allow me to be in touch and in connection with what is going on. But these tools and strategies that I'm going to share with you in this blog also allow me to be free. They al...