Fight For Yourself

My mission in life is to always be growing, evolving, and learning. To do that, I have to question the way I am thinking. Not once, not once in a while, constantly. I am working so hard to challenge my old destructive patterns of thinking and to retrain my brain to create new roads. Comfort and lazy thinking is the enemy of my growth, so in this episode, I discuss ways that I am working on keeping my brain fresh and my habits healthy.

So many of us have the Disease to Please. We have formed behavior patterns centered around making sure everyone else is happy. We think we are keeping the peace, but are the ones that sacrifice our own wellness in the process. In this episode, we go over the top 10 signs you are a people pleaser, with some insight from my own life.

This episode is a recreation of an inspirational story that my Mom told me about a time in her life when many changes happened at once. She explains how she mustered up the strength to Fight for Herself during this difficult time with big and small changes, each one building on the other to help pivot her life in a new and healthy direction.

Most people don’t want to talk about the hard things. One of those hard things to talk about is emotional eating. Do your emotions drive you to eat? For a lot of people they do, myself included. In this episode, I explore how and why that works the way it does, and ways to fight it.

I come from a defiant woman, I work with defiant women, I am friends with defiant women, I raised a defiant woman, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. This episode delves into defiance and how it serves (and does not serve) us in our lives.

In this episode, I tell the story of my journey over the last two weeks. From the hospital, where Mom fought for herself in the biggest way I have ever seen, to the island, where I finally took a breath to process it all.

In this mini-episode, I share what came out when I sat down and wrote a love letter to my body. I turned this activity that we often do in my workshops back on myself and decided to share it with you all and encourage you to try it.

This week, I share the lessons I learned while conquering my biggest physical test so far, running a 10 mile race. It took a lot of mind management as well as physical training, and in this episode I share the 10 things I learned in 10 miles.

We celebrate our 10th episode with a special guest, Dawn Rains! Dawn is an incredibly successful woman who like most of us, has her share of issues in her relationship with her body. In this episode, we talk about her story and what she is learning along the way.

Go on and IMPRESS YOURSELF today! In this episode, I talk about putting yourself into the right zone to really blow your own mind with what you can accomplish today. I explore what I learned in the book, Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy, which has some great tips to make your day more productive. I challenge you to impress yourself with these strategies!