We have all had those times in our relationship... When you have been talking and talking about an issue and trying to hard to resolve it. You just might be doing everything right and it still feels like you aren't getting to the light at the e...

We have all had this experience before. You are living your life. You are used to the highs and the lows and it just feels like life. And then you find a solution for a problem that you have been having. Sort of like the first time that someone...

When you have tried every diet under the sun, but the scale doesn't budge. When you want to exercise and you have come up with all of the plans to start and it isn't happening. When you are really good at organizing your to-do list, but things ...

In the story of Pinocchio, he finds himself heading down a street to Pleasure Island. It's lined with candy and treats and everything enticing. If you asked Pinocchio where he was headed, he really didn't know. Let's look at this story and disc...

Now that the winter holidays are over, and we are looking ahead to the New Year, let's assess. I am using the childhood story of The Three Bears to discuss how your holiday season 'fit' you. We all have a level of activity and connection and bu...

When was the last time that your well-planned day or organized week got thrown off-track? Something happened: you got sick, an unexpected problem or expectation from someone else was placed on you or something that you have been working on just...

It is almost the New Year. What do you have planned for yourself? Do you have specific goals in mind? How detailed are they? And how detailed is your plan? I am thinking about who I will be in one year from now. And about the system that I will...

Sometimes we carry extra stress on our backs...on our shoulders.... We place a rock, one by one, into that metaphorical backpack and we carry it around with us wherever we go. Let's explore how they get there and what we can do to start lighten...

What is the difference between being willing or motivated to do a task? What about excitement and inspiration- where do those feelings come in? When you are beginning something new, what is the feeling that you should expect? How do you know wh...

We all think about the future in some way. Some with worry, some with hope. However we think about it, we may not realize that we create stories about the future. Not only do these stories actually affect what happens to us in the future, but i...

Here is Part 2 of our 3 part series. We sometimes don't realize the filtering and editing that our brain does all of the time. Facts and circumstances are happening all around us. Our brain picks out the bits of information that it wants to foc...

What was your childhood like? Was it good, bad, happy, sad? When you look back, do you wish that things could have happened differently? Do you wish that other people were different or that you made different choices for yourself? What was your...

When you write something down on that list of what to do today, how sure do you feel about crossing it off later? Do you ever have tasks that you bump from today to tomorrow? From this week to next week? The Sure Factor is one little trick that...

When we are afraid of doing something or we hesitate to get started, that fear or anxiety is very real. It's hard to believe that there is a fun and silly strategy that will take something that is serious and real and transform it into a lighth...

Time to add another tool to our toolbox of things that we can pull out when it feels hard to change our thinking. This week we will address those moments when your thinking feels stuck or inflexible. What are the struggles that you have in your...

We have all heard this advice before: 'fake it until you make it' to build your inner confidence. But, just because it is well known advice, does that mean that it is the best advice? We are going to talk about how this advice can advance your ...

Did you ever picture what it was like for your mom to grow up in the era that she grew up in? What was life like in the 1950's for people, and for women in particular? We are going to talk about the concept of conformity that was evident at tha...

Who do you look up to? Are there people in your life that you look to for advice or who are further down the road on the path that you want to travel? Think about how you think about those people. Have you ever put them on a pedestal and pictur...

Do you know that saying that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence? Why does it appear that way? What is it that our brains are telling us or that we are thinking to feel like other people just might have it better than we ...

It's natural to want to make more room in our life for hobbies, friends, other things that we want to work towards. And we feel like we don't have time. Or we might want to work towards a specific goal, but there are things in our way that stop...

Have you heard about the studies that look at the effectiveness of taking a placebo, measured against those that take an actual medication and against those that receive no treatment at all? Let's take a peek into why the placebo works in the w...

Are you in a relationship? If so, for how long? Have you ever considered which of the 5 stages that you and your partner are currently in? If you aren't in a relationship right now, you can think of another couple that you are close to or a pre...

This week, I have been experimenting with a new technique to make habit formation easier. We have talked so much about setting big goals. And sometimes we get so intimidated by those big, scary goals that we can get in our way of doing the work...

Just how busy are you? Very often, the answer is that we are MUCH busier than we actually are, if we looked at what is on our calendar and added up the actual minutes of physical work. We add in a lot of that feeling of being busy, by adding up...

This week I am telling a story. Listen to an analogy about Tom and the house that he builds. Then I will pose a question to you about two different roads and which one you would take. It's an episode to get you thinking about what kind of perso...