How to Stop Auto-Helping: 4 Steps to Deciding Whether You Should Get Involved
Are you an "auto-helper?"
If you instinctively help regardless if you have the time, money, or inclination to do so and end up running the to rescue for every sob story or cause which crosses your path, then you are.
Because you help automatically, you can end up getting in way over your head with the amount of assistance or money which is requested. When this happens, you'll either push yourself to the point you are financially or physically broke, or you’ll develop resentment over all you’re doing with no one assisting you.
What Back Pain is Trying to Tell You About What's Off in Your Life
Do you have back pain? Does your low back feel like it is knotted and achy? Have you ever had a herniated or slipped disc?
If so, you are dealing with issues of support and flexibility in your life. Let me help you translate what your body is trying to tell you, so you can heal!
How to Feel Safe: Dealing With Anxiety by Creating Your Own Security and Peace of Mind
Perhaps the greatest stress you will ever face is the impression that you can't protect yourself from life itself.
I have certainly had moments like this. A few years ago my husband and I went through two hurricanes, completing renovations on our house, putting it on the market, a cross-country move, and the death of my beloved grandmother all in a four week period (actually, all but one hurricane happened in one week). I have never been so stressed out in my life, and I began to notice that I was constantly looking over my shoulder, waiting for the next disaster to happen.
What Pain is Telling You: How to Decipher the Energetic Reasons for Hurting
What is pain? Why does it happen? Can it have an emotional connection? How can I make the pain stop?
If you are in pain, these questions are certainly at the top of your mind. In my work, I've found that pain is always the body’s way of letting you know that something in your mind or life is seriously awry and needs changing.
You are Not Your Disease: How to De-Personalize Illness and Ignite Healing
“MY allergies are killing me this year.”
“MY back pain is awful.”
“MY chronic bronchitis is getting so much worse.”
“MY cancer is in remission. I hope it stays that way.”
Every time I hear the word “MY” attached to a pain, disease, or illness, I want to smack that word right out of the sentence. Why? Because the more you personalize an illness, the more power you give it to stick around.
Here’s why (and what to do about it):
What Nelson Mandela Reminded Me About the Power of Forgiveness (And Why You Need to Forgive, Too)
On being freed from prison in 1990, Mandela had this to say: ”As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
If there was ever a wake-up call, that was it. I realized that by holding on to the anger towards those that had hurt me in the past, I was willingly a prisoner of their dungeons, and I really didn’t want to keep giving them that much power.
5 Ways to Get More Energy Right Now
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Would you like to feel more excitement, passion, and joy in life? Do you just simply desire more energy in your day?
Here are some simple tips you can implement right now to see an immediate impact on your energy levels.