Hello, HTHers (How to Humaners)! Today's episode is about getting unstuck. It is not uncommon to feel a nudge inside of us, especially at the beginning of a new year, to make a change in some area of our lives, whether it be in our relationships, our work, our physical wellness, our mental wellness. These changes are desired so that we can be more of the human that we want to be and/or have the capacity to be. 

I often tell people that to get unstuck is really an inside job. Our brain offers up a lot of mental resistance to change and because of this, it needs to be managed and redirected. Come join us on the inside to learn how to manage and work with our subconscious and 5 ways to cultivate new habits. x

Hello, dear people! As Viktor Frankl said: “The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

There are always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offers the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determines whether we would or would not submit to those powers which threaten to rob us of our very selves, our inner freedom; which determine whether or not we become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...”

Today, we are talking about hope and cultivating more of it in this pandemic. See you on the inside! x

Hello, dear people! There’s always an ongoing invitation to live and human a little differently than maybe we are doing right now. We have no blueprint for how to human during a pandemic so today we are talking about some foundational things we can do to ease the road.

Know that we can carry the heavy with us AND keep walking. As we travel this unfamiliar and unsettling road of all things COVID, we have the capacity to build our adaptability muscle, utilize our Plan B, find joy and softness in our days, seek out support and our people, take that next step, and be a person of hope. Amazingly, when we do these things, we feel better and we human better. Come join us on the inside and learn more! x

Hello, dear people. Today, we are going to talk about a pathway to true belonging which is a kind of spiritual practice for all of us. 

It is a willingness to go inside of ourselves and explore, excavate, and integrate all the parts of ourselves – the light and the dark. A big part of this practice includes getting better at naming and feeling all of our feelings. 

Come join us on the inside! x

Hello, dear people! Today we are going to talk about the art of talking to ourselves because in order to create a healthier relationship with ourselves, we need to talk more and listen less to our brain. Although our brain believes that it has our best interest at heart, it often feeds us faulty and self defeating messages. What makes it even more interesting is that we humans tend to passively listen to what our brain tells us to think and then we believe whatever we think. I think it's just good to know that our brain isn't always right. 

Let's be more proactive in our conversation with our brain by leaning in, turning toward, examining, questioning, and talking back to it instead of being passive recipients of what it tells us to think and what to do. Come join us on the inside! x

Hello, dear people! In light of Thanksgiving and the many families that are gathering this week and gearing up for the holiday season, I wanted to share some thoughts on how to cultivate living more wholeheartedly. Our young people are watching us and learning from us in what we do and how we live more than what we say. What greater incentive than to live from worthiness and belonging and to model this for our young people on a day to day basis. 

Instead of trying to raise perfectly happy, perfectly successful, perfectly attractive, perfectly achieving young people, let's raise humans who engage with the world from a place of worthiness and belonging. Imagine living in a world like this. See you on the inside. x

Hello, dear people! The dance of relationships and the you, me, we interplay is what helps us know ourselves and grow ourselves. And we don’t get to know ourselves by ourselves, do we?

It really is a combination of how we see ourselves and how others see us. I share two client stories in this episode as illustrations of the dance, and the growth potential in each. Hope to see you on the inside! x

Hello, dear ones! Today's topic is a good one: Self-love is our ability to see ourselves as imperfect humans and still hold ourselves in high regard. It's being able to see our imperfect selves and embrace it all – the light, the dark, and the multitude of our parts. 

See you on the inside! x

Hello, dear ones! Today, we are going to be talking emotions and the concept that each one our emotions has a beginning, a middle, and an end. 

Emotions are cycles that happen in our bodies. They are neurological events that are happening not just in our bodies but in our nervous systems. The most powerful response we can have to our emotions is to turn toward the difficult and uncomfortable emotions with a dose of curiosity, kindness, and compassion, and allow ourselves to complete the life cycle of our emotions from beginning to end. 

It's a practice, and we'll talk about ways to implement this practice on the inside. x

Hello, dear ones! Welcome to a new week, a new topic. People pleasing is not aligned with what is most true because it’s really about us trying to control how people view us and making sure that we are safe and that we are okay in the eyes of others. Why do we do it? It is unconscious manipulation often learned in our earliest conditioning. Tune in for more! See you on the inside. x