A viewer asked: I feel like I walk around the world with no skin on. I am easily triggered by people, but in retrospect, it usually turns out that I’ve made the wrong assumptions. How do I stop taking everything so personally? …

Before I dive into how trauma triggers are formed, let me give you a bit of background on classical conditioning. Like many great scientific advances …

Do you know what kills the most dreams? It’s not lack of education, money, preparation, but our internal resistance. The more we want something, the stronger the resistance inside of …

Gaslighting is a pernicious form of abuse. Often, it comes on so subtly and slowly that you don't even realize it's happening until it's too late. How do you catch it and stop it before damanges are done?

Have you ever had to deal with a “friend” that always steers the conversation back to them and their problems, feels entitled to your time, your energy, and your resources ...

A friend of mine has a teenage son (let’s call him Nate). Nate has a kind heart, and he’s also one of the most popular kids in school. One thing …

Establish yourself as a good boundary holder early is key If you are new to boundary setting, you can expect that people will test you to see if you mean …

You had the power all along Have you had to deal with people communicate by “not communicating?” I’m talking about people who stonewall, disappear...

A mistake that many of us make when giving advice is we over-invest ourselves. We try to make people do what we want them to do, and get frustrated when they ignore us. We also get emotionally entangled …

Are you an addict or know an addict and wonder what it takes to quit and stay clean? If so, this is the episode for you. Addicts feel out of control, ashamed, and alone, but statistics show that chemical addiction ...

Do you feel like work is eating into your life? Are you an empathetic, sensitive person but find your kindness being used against you at work? Are you being bullied …

Do you work for an unreasonable boss? Do you wish that you are better at saying no so you’re not always overwhelmed? ...

Have you ever wanted to take a risk, whether that's in your love life, your career, or moving to a new place, but fear of failure holds you back from taking that first step? ...

One of the most effective ways to get back to a calm emotional state is to release fears and resentments by taking it out of our heads and put it on paper ...

If you’re like me, instilling a new habit is a struggle, and often, after much effort, the new habit did not stick. For the longest time, I’ve tried to build …

I’ll go over six specific tips that you can leverage to build any new habit, and you can use it to make daily meditation, exercise, journaling, or any good habit you intend to build a reality for you! 

A reader, Sue, asked this question: I always wondered how to love oneself. I grew up knowing that I must behave the "right way" to please my parents; otherwise ...

The first time I realized that I didn’t love myself enough was when my ex-husband left suddenly. I felt shocked, devastated, and unsure of my reason to exist. Until that point, I thought I loved myself ... 

In my healing journey, I found forgiving my parents the hardest thing to do. I covered some of what my parents did to my siblings and me in another article. Suffice to say, what they did to us was far from ok ...

In our women-only membership group, many of the questions I get are about self-love. The good news is, if you have a kind heart, you have a short cut to self-love ...

One of the most important lessons I learned in life is to examine what we believe to be true periodically. We often form lifelong beliefs about the world in our childhood ...

If you grew up in an unsafe environment, it is easy to overreact to stressors. Before I get into coping with unfounded fear, I want to tackle what seems obvious, which is sometimes anxiety is there for a reason ...

We usually want to believe that our family has our back, but it's not always the case. In this episode, I answer a viewer's question about how to handle her sister's criticism ...