Emotions are an integral part of day-to-day life, and it can easily seem like they have a mind of their own, pun intended. In fact, emotions are a result of our mind: what we think and believe about a particular situation (or person, or experience, etc.) directly influences what we…

Life can feel chaotic, stressful, out of our control. And to be fair, many things in fact ARE out of our control. But, our emotional experience of life doesn’t have to be. And our sense of stability and self-control is exactly that, a SENSE. How we interpret our world, our…

Band-Aid Self-Empowerment (just the “what”): Change your statements from “I am angry/frustrated, etc.” to “I’m noticing anger/frustration, etc. coming up.” Self-Mastery (the “what,” the “why,” the “how,” and more): One of the hardest times to feel in control of ourselves and of our world around us is when life doesn’t go according to how we would prefer it went. There are PLENTY of things…

If you’re familiar with the personal development space, you may have heard some form of the statement “get out of your own way” in your online dabbling. From not having control over your own thoughts, to being self-judgmental, to comparing your life to others’, to making decisions based in scarcity…

It’s no surprise that 2020 is the star of the Worst Year Ever show with a seemingly endlessly expanding repertoire that includes such chart-topping hits as: Global pandemic fuels 1 million deaths, health and economic disaster, and conspiracy theory storms, Pancreatic cancer claims the lives of Supreme Court Justice Ruth…

In modern society, it is now not only common, but normal, for women to forget two universal Truths over the course of their lives: that we are each intrinsically deserving of a life that brings us alive, and that we are each infinitely capable of creating that life. Today, there…

I opened my Saturday by watching musical artist superstar, Usher, be interviewed by Power 106 Los Angeles, so my weekend is off to a much better start after the heartbreaking news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s passing yesterday. #RIPRBG This man’s music was on my…

The other day, I was interviewed by my friend and colleague, Asif Dhanani, host of the podcast “Invisible Illnesses,” on my take on imposter syndrome. We had a fantastic conversation around topics from how hard it is to see ourselves objectively, how to identify whether we’re experiencing imposter syndrome, and…

A confusing wave of emotions crept into me when I read CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman’s comments yesterday: not just his ridiculous “FLOYD-19” tweet, but the dismissive and extraordinarily unprofessional reply to Alyssa Royse, Owner of Seattle’s CrossFit Community Fitness (formerly Rocket CrossFit) after she expressed concern for Glassman’s comments…