We’ve all lied at sometime.  We’ve all been lied to. We even lie to ourselves?  We believe in being honest, so…why do people lie?  The importance of communication can shed some light on this situation.  As teenagers, we probably have all lied to our parents at some point.  We lie to get our own way, but behind that is that we didn’t want to get a no or have our parents angry or upset with us.  As adults, we may lie to our personal and primary relationships. We lie in two ways: 1.  We lie to ourselves about ourselves.  We deny aspects or parts of ourselves because... Read More

You feel yourself getting angry or you’ve just blown up at someone, now what do you do? What needs to happen is for you to calm down. Remember people respond to your emotions and not to your words, so it’s best to communicate from a calm place. So basically calming down is calming your mind down. Anger management techniques help with this. If you’ve just blown up or get very angry, research show that it takes 20 to 30 minutes for your brain to return to normal. You want your brain to be calmer so you can find win-win solutions. And also to be able to do any repair work in the... Read More

This may sound like a strange question, how we breathe can either increase our stress or bring stress relief. You may not be aware, but when you are anxious or worried you tend to breathe fast and shallow. Which increases your anxiety while your mind just keeps racing. Your breath can bring stress relief  if you breathe deeply and slowly. What this does is help your body relax and gives your mind something to focus on, your breath. Did you know your mind will match your breath. If you breathe slow and deep your mind will also slow down. I want to share with you three breathing techniques to help ... Read More

Where do you start when everything in your life feels unhealthy or broken?  Can it really make a difference at all to make a healthy change?  I believe healthy living tips can help you. All you can do is all you can do.  Choose one healthy living tip to focus on at a time.  Watch for the subtle changes in your life, your health, your body, your mind, your emotions but looking to see if it is changing you for the better. Focus on making changes that are small and easy at first so you can feel successful and build on that success. Start with five to ten minutes a day exercising, meditating,... Read More

Where is my money is a common feeling for many people these days.  If you have a lifetime or a long-time focus on what you don’t have or on lack, the law of prosperity says you are attracting more lack into your life.  I know how hard it can be to stop thinking in lack.  It’s almost automatic.  When you worry about paying the rent or mortgage, your bills piling up,putting food on the table, it’s still very hard to think in prosperity. But thinking in prosperity is the very thing you must do to attract prosperity in your life, based on the Prosperity Laws. What you focus on... Read More

Having the attitude of  ”  My life is  good ” is  a matter of perspective.  It’s an attitude of my life is good and I am happy. I know that  life has its ups and downs. How we handle them is what  makes the difference.  You always have a choice: Do I focus on the negative ? or Do I focus on the good? The negative view is usually what’s happening in the moment or a small narrow focus.  Or we focus on the good, a larger focus. If you review your life from a higher perspective, you might notice  that everything works out, eventually. It may not work out the way you... Read More

I hate my life can be a momentary experience or a longer stuck feeling.  It’s a feeling of rejection of self,  a feeling of limitation.  You do not like what’s happening in the moment, or you are focusing on everything you don’t like in the moment. I hate my life is a feeling of powerlessness.  You are in a place of a victim-hood. If you hate your life, the truth is the only person that can change your life, is you.  This is not meant as a judgment, I see this as a point of choice for  your “unstuck-ness” .  It may feel like nothing is changing, but if you... Read More

Self esteem is believing in yourself.  It is saying to yourself and others – “I matter to myself.” It is the feeling of self-confidence, knowing you can do (or get the help to do) whatever it is you want to do. It is also self-worth, knowing you have value.  You do not need to prove your worth or earn your worth; you already have it. Self esteem activities help you build your feelings of self-worth and self confidence. So some  self esteem activities are: 1. One of the most important activities is how we talk to ourselves inside our heads, with no put downs.  Talk to yourself... Read More

Have you ever sat in the room and felt uncomfortable?  Have you ever had a conversation with someone who was talking reasonably and  made sense but you didn’t believe them? Well you were responding to nonverbal communication. Most of our communication is nonverbal communication.  It is said only about 7 -10% of our communication are the words that we speak.  The rest of our communication is non-verbal communication.  There are very many ways we communicate non verbally. Some ways are body language.  Are we open, are we closed.  Are we moving forward or are we pulling back. The tone... Read More

You know  the symptoms of stress is often the feeling of being overloaded, doing too much, being over-committed. Your  to-do list is overflowing and it seems like nothing is getting done. You walk around in a hurry and  forgetting your needs and what’s really important.Sometimes, when we have symptoms of stress, you just want to yell at everyone “get out of my way”,” let me get something done”, or” whatever sets you off in the moment”. These are signs that you need to slow down, not hurry up. You need to relax and do some self-care. You need to take... Read More