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...

When you feel stuck with moving towards a goal that you really want to achieve, sometimes the problem isn't really what you think it is. There is something else at play underneath, something that your brain is doing, to try and hold on to the i...

This week we will do another little experiment of bringing a little something to your life. If you are a skeptic when you hear about energy, manifesting, and the Law of Attraction, then this is an episode for you. We are first going to dive int...

What are the unexpected things that bring a little spark of joy to your day? Do you ever plan for things to sprinkle throughout your day or your week that make you happy? We all know what it's like to fall into a habitual routine and to sometim...

We have talked before about the dos and don'ts of manifesting those things that you really want in your life. But what if you are feeling skeptical about manifestation? What if you think of it is something that is just fairy magic pretend stuff...

Sometimes we can't control our circumstances. Sometimes we can control our circumstances but we just don't want to change them at the moment. It might not seem worth the effort. Or maybe it's just not the right time. We are going to look at an ...

Have you ever heard a song that caught you off guard? One that you didn't know but that you just instantly fell in love with? I am going to share a few times that this happened to me and 3 lessons that we can learn from these little surprise mo...

Last week we talked about how to put whatever problem that you are encountering in your life into a coaching tool that is called The Model. The Model allows you to take a look at the thought that you are having about your situation and to see w...

We all know that when we are unhappy with something in our life, we can make a change. Change is not usually easy and sometimes we just don't want to. Maybe we are afraid, maybe we are tired, maybe the change just doesn't feel worth the effort....

Come and join me for some reflection on the WILDFIT program that I have been following for the last 7 weeks. It's been an educational journey and I am going to specifically talk about emotional eating: why we do it, how we learned it, and how t...