Curious about how AI might support your personal growth? This article explores how tools like ChatGPT can be used for self-reflection, gentle coaching, and emotional healing. Plus, download your free AI Prompt Pack filled with powerful questions to help you reflect, reframe, and rise — one prompt at a time.
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So many women find themselves caught in the role of “fixer.” Whether it’s a partner battling addiction, a child making reckless choices, a sibling who’s chronically broke, or a friend whose relationships are always in tatters — we pour our energy, time, and even money into trying to solve their problems.
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What if the real block to your goals isn’t what you’re doing—but what you’re unconsciously believing? In this post, you’ll uncover the internal scripts shaping your results, then rewire them into empowering beliefs aligned with who you’re becoming. Includes a free worksheet to guide your shift.
What’s Holding You Back? How to Uncover and Transform the Beliefs Blocking Your Goals Read More »
We tend to treat sadness like an uninvited guest — something to push away, hide, or avoid altogether. But what if sadness isn’t the enemy of happiness, but part of the way to it?
Letting Sadness In: The Unexpected Path to True Happiness Read More »
The Think, Feel, Act Cycle, also known as the self-coaching model developed by Brooke Castillo, consists of five key components: circumstances, thoughts, feelings, actions, and results. It emphasizes that our thoughts, not external circumstances, determine our experiences. By becoming aware of and changing our thoughts, we can transform our emotions, behaviors, and outcomes, leading to a more positive life.
The Think, Feel, Act Cycle – A Deep Dive on Thoughts Read More »
OK. So yesterday I ran face-first into an ugly truth about myself. Truthfully, I was actually guided to the realisation by someone close to me and I thank them for it. I hope. Well. Yes. I thank them for pointing out a huge area of potential growth for me but I am a bit annoyed that it may give them an (undeserved) opportunity to feel smug and righteous. Defensive? Who me?
Help! The Internet says that I’m a controlling woman. Read More »
As we enter a new calendar year many of us take the opportunity to review the past year and set some goals for the year ahead. The internet and social media are filled with offers of free and paid goal setting systems and courses and links to the newest planner or journaling method to assure success in keeping our new year’s resolutions this time even though we may have failed in the past.
The K.I.S.S. Method for Goal Setting Read More »
Yesterday I finally completed writing my 20 for 2020. This is a list of things I want to do in
As I sat down to write this I was thinking about what my word for 2020 was going to be,
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There was once a beautiful and slightly righteous angel living in Heaven. He was very gifted and amazing in just about every way but he struggled a bit with compassion and empathy. He simply couldn’t understand why some humans found it so hard to do the right thing and follow the rules.
Mindfulness is described as maintaining a moment by moment awareness of our thoughts and feelings, our physical sensations and the environment around us. So often we are caught up in thoughts of things that have happened in the past or things we are planning or have yet to do, that we do not give our attention to what is happening right now in the present moment.
Imagine checking your mail and amongst the usual bills and advertising material finding a letter addressed to you written in very familiar handwriting, your own. But you have no recollection of ever addressing this particular envelope.
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There is so much promise in this statement. It is so inspirational that not only can your goals be achieved, but in getting there, you’ll become a better person. And on reading it we know it’s true.
Helen Keller’s whole life is an inspiration to us all. This woman with so much going against her achieved so much. Much more in fact than the majority of ‘normal’ able-bodied people. She often spoke of how much she loved life and how grateful she was for her abilities. She firmly believed that helping others was man’s purpose in life and that service to others was the secret to lasting happiness.
As we’ve learned from the last post about The Think, Feel, Act Cycle, all situations or circumstances are totally neutral until we start to think about them and create judgements about them. If something about a circumstance brings up fear in us that will often be more about us than the actual circumstance.
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The Think, Feel, Act Cycle is a framework that we can use to understand how and why we feel the way we do. And, it’s also a tool that we can use to change the way we think and act and be happier.
The Think-Feel-Act Cycle: How to Coach Yourself to Be Happier Read More »
Depression is when you’re feeling really down and that everything feels totally hopeless.
The good news is that depression can be overcome.
Natural ways to fight back when depression steals your happiness Read More »
Yes, I believe you can. But, and there are quite a few buts, you can’t outright lie to your subconscious.
Can you change your life with positive affirmations? Read More »
Starting a daily gratitude practice can change your life. Science has shown that changing the way you perceive the world around you will actually change your experience of life.
Three different ways to start a daily gratitude practice – and how it helps. Read More »
I have always found that taking some sort of positive step, even the tiniest one, towards the problem can help lower my anxiety level. Doing something, even if it is just writing down a list of possible actions, gives me comfort in that I am actually doing something to solve the problem or prevent it from happening.
Do something positive instead of worrying. Action is the antidote for anxiety. Read More »
