Triggered to Doubt Myself

On a phone call two days ago with a friend that I studied NLP with, we were talking about an upcoming talk about self-awareness that I’m giving at the end of September. The underlying theme of parts of our conversations is the mindset of corporate employees. This is a strong area …

The Number One Problem My Clients Experience

I was coaching a woman in her 50s with a new sales technique, in the way she held her body, the language it spoke I knew that she wasn’t able to exhibit confidence because she didn’t believe she was enough. A man, head of his department of a national company, …

A Feather, A Brick, Or a Truck?

As I lay in the hospital Thursday, a week ago, my hand hooked up to an iv needle slowly dripping its antibiotic into my blood, I wondered, had I been tickled with a feather or hit by a brick? In life, our negative experiences can be likened to being tickled …

The Gift that Crashing Waves Give

In high school, adults say to you, “enjoy your time in high school, the real world sucks.” When you’re employed, you think that running your own business is where it’s at. That’s the ideal, “Oh, to be free!” you exclaim. As a business owner now, I wish someone had told …

The Root Cause of My Low Self-Worth

I wrote, in the post, Social Media Depression, Self-Worth & Judgement: When I think back to the root cause of this fear [of judgement], I think about my childhood filled with being bullied and scared of rebuke by other children. I never understood why or when it started but certainly it was …

Social Media Depression, Self-Worth & Judgement

This morning, after a long sleep in, I found myself scrolling through various social media platforms and wondering, why? Downstairs I could hear my son being his usual annoyingly beautiful, rambunctious self while, no doubt, my husband in his Ramadan-fasting state, lay on the couch watching a movie. Why was …