Oh, friends. I hear so many reports of overwhelm and just general crumminess.

I suspect you’re ready to feel better now. Right now.

But here’s the deal, you’ve probably wanted to feel better before. This is nothing new. But there is so much conflicting information.

I want to teach you how to feel better now and invite you to take the first steps toward change.

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This episode is part of my Emotional Health Series to help you learn how to feel your emotions. I find that many of us deny or deflect our feelings, which really won't help us to overcome the emotions that are holding us back. This conversation will help you learn how to "name it to tame it."

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Confidence  is something everyone wants, but for so many people, it’s hard to find!

Most women today aren’t confident. And frankly, this breaks my heart and this is why I do this work.

I know women can change their thoughts about themselves at any time. I know because I see it happen every darn day.

When you change what you think about yourself, you change your life.

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This episode comes from a LIVE Q+A Session I hosted on my Lives of Courage Facebook page (I host Q+A sessions EVERY Friday!).

The questions we talk about:

1. How can I be okay when my life isn’t okay

2. I’m everything to my kids with virtual schooling and I’m exhausted and fed up 

3. What is the deal I go to change and I’m good for a few weeks and then I give up 

4. How do I help my kids navigate this confusing time

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Courage is not the absence of fear.

Since childhood, we’ve been told that the true definition of courage is one of self-sacrifice and colossal acts of heroism. But I’d like to offer an alternative definition of courage - Courage is in the act of moving forward with fear.

If you find yourself stuck because of fear and unable to move forward in courage, today, I want to teach you the AND method.

I created this method and I truly believe that, when applied, it works and you will find courage in the face of fear!

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This episode comes from a LIVE Q+A Session I hosted on my Lives of Courage Facebook page (I host Q+A sessions EVERY Friday!).

The questions we talk about:

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Do you ever wonder how others can complete projects, one right after another, and you struggle to even get started?

We often see others who seem able to do so much. Like they make a goal, get so much done AND in a short amount of time.

Here’s the secret: they have learned how to plan AND how to commit to following through on the plan.

That is it. Sounds simple, right?

Simple, but not easy. You have to take steps to be uncomfortable on purpose.

You must learn that achieving your dreams, requires you to feel uncomfortable. When you have big dreams and goals, you’re willing to learn how to feel all of your emotions and STILL take action. Today, I'm going to teach you how!

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One of the things we did recently as part of the Courageous Life Society was a Courageous Confidence Challenge. As I recorded the video for this challenge, I was overcome with gratitude and inspiration for these women who are doing these things everyday to change their lives.

We talk a lot about consuming information, talking about changing our lives, watching trainings on how to change our lives, etc., but then how do we actually apply it to our own lives?

Your everyday courage looks like doing the things everyday that you have been avoiding because you’re afraid, because it make you feel shame and disappointment.

You are worthy of so much more - and COURAGE ACTION will get you there!

Check out this conversation and the other questions I covered in this LIVE Q+A session on my Lives of Courage Facebook Page (I do a LIVE Q+A every single Friday)!

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So many of my clients first come to me with a desire to change their thoughts. They're stuck in a pattern of negative beliefs or that their circumstances can't or won't change.

They don’t know how to leap from what they’ve always thought to where they want to go. They see their thoughts as unchangeable. And so they feel stuck and overwhelmed.

Have you ever felt this way? Stuck and not sure what thoughts you should be having or how to get your brain to believe them?

Today, I want to discuss the difference between mental rigidity and you can shift these stubborn beliefs by practicing something I call “mental flexibility.”

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Sometimes we think that in order to be making progress, we have to have these huge, life-changing moments. So, when we have these small, mini successes, we think they're unimportant and don't celebrate the fact that those small changes are actually our PROGRESS!

This episode comes from a LIVE Q+A Session I hosted on my Lives of Courage Facebook page (I host Q+A sessions EVERY Friday!).

The questions we talk about:

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