How do you know if you're making the right or wrong decision?

In this episode, I teach you how you can always make the right decision. We discuss how we frame our stories, and how to know if our stories are serving us.

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We're in the middle of the holiday season, and if you're anything like how I used to be, you might have some "drama" in your mind about all the food and treats and how much weight you might gain.

Did you know it's all optional?

Seriously.

In this episode, we discuss why you might want to treat your body differently than you currently do, and how to have the desire to do so.

What if you were in charge of caring for someone else's body, someone who you love? What thoughts would you have about their body? How would you treat it?

Can you treat your own body, as though it belonged to someone you love?

You'll hear lots of ideas of how you might want to treat your body with more care and support. All the small actions, done consistently over time, always yield great results. None of it happens overnight.

Who we are and who we are becoming are always made up of thousands of little acts, fueled by little thoughts and feelings that we have every day.

You matter. Your health and well-being matter. You are the best one (and only one) who can truly take care of YOU.

Happy Holidays!

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Christmas is coming up, and I’m curious to know if you are a teenage girl or if you have a teenage daughter that would like to be experiencing life with more confidence?

Having more confidence helps with our relationships and social life, our mental health and physical health, it helps with schoolwork, and honestly every aspect of our lives. It helps to experience our lives in the ways that we want to.

So if you are a teenage girl or if you have one in your life, I have good news for you. Confidence is now something you can give or get for Christmas!

You didn’t know that could be a Christmas present, did you?

Well, it is!

I am offering a private course with me as your coach starting in January.

Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn, and I am here to teach it!

It’s six weekly one-on-one sessions with me (via video-conference), where we really get to know you. This is a chance to apply things that you have heard on the podcast to your life and your particular circumstances, with my help. I’ll be by your side all along the way, as you learn and practice living as the person that you want to be.

You will learn skills and gain mindsets and new habits and tricks that will set you on a new path, a new trajectory for the rest of your life!

I’m telling you-- this can easily be THE BEST Christmas gift you could ever give or get.

If you’re interested, all you have to do is send an email to [email protected] with the word CONFIDENCE in the subject line, and in the body of the email, simply provide the name of the person who is enrolling.

That’s it!

You’ll get a response from me with a private link to book your six sessions as well as an invoice.

If you are one of the first five people to clear your invoice, just for fun, I want to send you a goodie box in the mail with a few of my favorite things!

One thing to keep in mind, is that the goodie box isn’t the only reason to act quickly-- you’ll want to act quickly because the time slots on my calendar are first come first served-- there’s a limited amount of spots, and the sooner you book your sessions, the more likely it is that you will get to choose spots that work well for your schedule.

There are two investment options:

Option 1 is to invest in full at $600

Option 2 is two monthly installments of $350

Merry Christmas!

I have found that most of my confidence stems from having learned how to manage what's going on inside my own head.

It's not unlike how kids gain confidence as they learn to do things for themselves, like brushing their teeth or tying their shoes.

It's empowering and exciting to gain this kind of ability and responsibility.

Obviously, gaining the ability and responsibility to manage our physical needs is entirely different from taking responsibility to manage our minds; it doesn't happen intuitively, and we certainly aren't taught how.

In this episode, we discuss how our experiences are always being created in OUR minds, and therefore OUR minds have the ability to shift our experiences, if we want to.

We don't have to live at the effect of situations and people and things outside of us. It's within our power to create something different, if we want to. THIS generates confidence.

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Did you know that our relationships really only exist in our minds? Not in a voo-doo way, but in a this-is-how-we-experience each other kind of way.

It's in our heads.

When we have a great relationship, it's because of what's going on in our mind. When we have a terrible relationship, it's also because of what's going on in our mind. (...It's how we are experiencing it...)

Hold up... I know you want to dispute this and tell me a story about someone who really wronged you, or dispute this idea with stories of horrible acts.

I'm not saying that other people's actions aren't part of the equation; I'm only saying that if we want to feel peaceful or good or anything else when it comes to our relationships, it's an option.

A few points discussed in this episode are:

(along with lots of great thoughts for feeling better in our relationships)

1. Our relationships exist in our minds, and therefore can be anything we want them to be.

2. Our feelings are ours, and we are the only one that feels them. Other people don't get to experience our anger or love or anything else. WE do. If we feel like a victim to our anger (like we don't have a choice in the matter), then we are giving our power to something outside of us.

3. Love always feels the best, and it’s always an option. If you want to get there and just can’t find loving thoughts about someone, you can ask Heavenly Father to show you what makes them lovable, and He will show you.

Say hi to me sometime! Email me at [email protected] and I'll say hi back. :)

Is there an area of your life that you would like to see improvement?

Here's a tip: confidence enhances everything (...and likewise, a lack of confidence weakens things that would be strong).

The kind of confidence that really serves us is not boastful or better-than; it's simply confidence in being the person that God created us to be and, trusting ourselves to be that person in all situations and circumstances.

In this episode, I share thoughts that give me confidence and help me be more of who I want to be, as well as my personal strategy that you can use to generate more confidence for yourself.

I would love to hear your confidence mantra!

Email me at [email protected] to share yours, and I'll share it in the next episode.

Do you struggle to be kind to yourself?

In this episode, we discuss our beliefs about ourselves and how they impact our life experience. I share personal story from my life as a teenager, a college student, and as an adult that illustrate how beliefs about myself played out in various circumstances.

Choosing to believe in my own innate goodness has completely changed how I experience my life, and helped me to be kind to myself. It's such a relief!

Listen for two ways you can develop kindness toward yourself, and change what you are experiencing in your life for the better.

[This is part 1 in a series of mindsets that have made a big difference in my life.]

In this episode, we discuss what and why we avoid, and how we can gain power to face and overcome our own "monsters," and gain confidence to do/become/create whatever we want to.

Listen to hear about a recent dream of mine that vividly taught me this lesson, as well as one gigantic thing I have been avoiding!

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The scriptures teach that the first and great commandment, upon which all the other commandment hang, is to LOVE. Love the Lord thy God, and love thy neighbor as thyself.

All the commandments hang on this one commandment: to love.

If you were asked: what prevents us from feeling love or what gets in the way of feeling loving (whether toward others or toward ourselves), what would you say?

My first thought was that the barrier to love must be the opposite of love, which we might say is hate. That makes sense logically; hate certainly doesn’t leave space for love.

But I think there’s something a lot sneakier and more subtle than hate, that prevents us from feeling loving. It’s judgement.

In this episode, we discuss why judgement can be so problematic, how love is the answer, PLUS two ways to experience more love for yourself.

You'll also get an inside view of my marriage as I share experiences with my husband that illustrates this concept.

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In this episode, we discuss how DOing the "right" things is very different from BEing someone who wants to. We discuss how this applies to our spiritual well-being as well as to our physical health.

Doing things and checking boxes is NOT the same as BEING someone who naturally chooses to.

The feelings driving what we are DOing MATTER.

We may be doing all the "right" things, but if it's driven from frustration or resentment, we will have a very different experience than if we are doing them from love and hope and desire. Ultimately, our feelings behind all our actions is what generates our results.

For example, it's easier to say a prayer, than it is to BE someone who is engaged in prayer.

It's easier to skip sugar for a day, than to BE someone who doesn't even want it.

Our goal is to BE rather than to DO.

As we BE someone who chooses supportive actions from a place of desire and hope and love, THAT is when the actions become part of who we are, and we receive the real benefits of DOing.

We are all a work in progress, and I believe we are all doing our best (even if our best is terrible).

"Do the best you can until you know better; when you know better, do better." -Maya Angelou