While delivering my first son, I experienced a 4th-degree tear. I was stitched up and “recovered,” but no longer have full control of what happens down there. I get by keeping an extra pair of underwear in my glove compartment and washing a lot of laundry… Probably TMI, but there’s an important point to this story I want to make: A lot of moms like me have body parts that don’t work or look the …
Earlier this year, I sat down with Andrea Baykir, creator of the Overwhelmed To Empowered Summit to discuss “Uncovering The Root Of Your Overwhelm.” In case you missed the event, here’s the interview where I share: ✅ How to start the transformation process of unpacking negative habits, limiting beliefs, and other issues that drain your energy and lead to overwhelm. ✅ Identifying your defense mechanisms that contribute to your greatest strengths but also create your …
“There is a saying that you are the only one who can control how you feel. How do you master this when you are a reactive person and perhaps someone says something hurtful?” 🤔 Great question!!! I got this as an anonymous question at a workshop I led a couple weeks back and am excited to have the opportunity to answer it for you.🙋♀️ There are ways to turn our programmed reactions into mindful responses. And …
I learned what a poor listener I was in 2009 in the middle of a yoga teacher training. I realized that most of the time when I thought I was listening, I wasn’t actually listening to the person in front of me. Instead, I was crafting my response in my head, thinking about how to make myself sound good, or telling myself how right I was and how wrong they were. Not to mention the …
When my first son was a toddler, I was stressed out nearly every time I was in public with him. Whether at Target or a friend’s house or in our front yard, I felt like his every move, word choice, and behavior was being judged and a reflection of me and my parenting skills (or lack thereof). If he threw a tantrum or cried or wasn’t grateful about a gift he had been given or …