Fears

…or, How to make friends with the real YOU – even the scary parts! People often feel there’s something that needs to be “fixed” about them before they can be truly lovable (or even acceptable) to themselves or others. This belief is so powerful that it creates a drag on a person’s growth, success and [...]

The tradition of Halloween and costumes in October offers a great opportunity to talk about the very common feeling of “being a fraud.” Do you often think, when someone gives you a compliment, that what you did that they are complimenting “wasn’t really all that” and that you don’t deserve the praise? Do you also [...]

We all want to be loving people, who “live and let live” and observe the Golden Rule. Yet it is often difficult to accept other people’s habits, behaviors and/or attitudes when they are different from ours. Our internal “radar” quickly picks up on differences and translates those differences into a sense of physiological discomfort. This [...]

Sometimes guilt or regret over something in the past can be hard to banish from our thoughts and feelings, even with great “experience re-framing” tools such as I shared with you in Dr. Simington’s article last week. When you don’t release your sense of regret and forgive yourself – either because you don’t try the [...]