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You don't get to choose all the things in life, but you and ONLY you get to decide if they will define or liberate you.

It’s the assumption that some of the basic tenants of being human are WRONG, combined with running, avoidance, and distraction from these ex

This is what holds us back. This is what keeps us from growing and adventuring, trapping us in playing small: the instinctive feeling that

Your brain is a constant meaning maker. It takes a stimulus and attaches to it the nearest narrative it can grab hold of. The problem is t

Over thinking “right” gridlocks our lives. We sit paralyzed until the “right thing” can be done the “right way” at the “right time”. Ugh.

As much stress and anxiety as you suffer in self-doubt and anticipation of doing something unknown, new or avoided, you’d think you’d allow

Mindfulness practices anchoring the mind in the safety and peace of the present are the best protection against these energetic leaks, but m

The problem isn’t with aspiring to grow and evolve. It’s that the entire premise of changing ourselves based upon our best (but ultimately

If it feels as if you’re dragging your heavy heart through the finish line of 2016, please remember that no energy is spent in vain. Any cl

Reflexively we tend to contract from discomfort, but that’s largely because we’ve written an inaccurate narrative about it. It’s much...