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Feeling Overwhelmed? Harness Your True North
We only have so much energy and attention to give. This article will help you align your focus and attention with your “True North”– your purpose.
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Illuminate is a blog series that provides practical tips + galvanizing inspirations for practicing an emotionally intelligent life.
How Do You React to Others’ Vulnerability?
Nuanced empathy skills help us develop close relationships, which according to a growing body of research, is the key to a good life.
Read MoreIlluminate: Strengthen the Muscles of Your Optimism
Too often, we tell ourselves, “I can’t…” or “I’ll never…” or “I don’t deserve….” or we forget that we actually have more options than we perceive. We stop trying, we give up, and our muscles of self-determination and freedom wither. Learned Optimism is how we get those muscles back in shape.
Read MoreConnect to Your Values with This Art Project
Read MoreIlluminate: Feeling Stuck Try This 3-Step Technique
This week, we’ll dive in + explore a practical technique for navigating feelings that just seem to linger.
Read MoreIlluminate: What Do You Really Want?
Read MoreIlluminate: How Are You (Really) Feeling Today?
How can you be more empowered with your emotions? The first step is to be able to correctly label them, in a timely manner – the emotional intelligence skill of enhance emotional literacy.
Read MoreIlluminate: Unravel Deeper Layers of Your Patterns
Read MoreIlluminate: 3 Steps to Acting on Your Values
We all make hundreds of decisions a day; do they align with your values? This week’s Illuminate gives you three practical steps for identifying your values, putting them into practice, and making your life more aligned with your values.
Read MoreIlluminate: Navigating Anger toward Wisdom
Dive into a beautiful (and true!) story about the power of navigating emotions– and learn how you can transform anger/sadness/grief/confusion into wisdom about yourself and your life’s path.
Read MoreIlluminate: What DO You Do with Your Inner Critic?
We all have that little voice inside: ‘You didn’t do that right/ fast enough/ well enough.’ How do you treat yours… and could you treat it more kindly?
Read MoreTalk to Yourself Like You Would Your Best Friend
Recent research suggests that speaking kindly to yourself helps you cope with challenging situations. But how exactly do you change self-talk?
Read MoreFeeling Mundane? Add Something New to Your Week
Recent research suggests those who act with some spontaneity have higher psychological wellbeing. Give your week a boost with this week’s Illuminate.
Read MoreStart Your Day on PURPOSE: Choose A Morning Ritual
Recent research suggests those with a morning ritual feel that their life is more meaningful. Set your daily intention by building a morning ritual… here’s how.
Read MoreIlluminate: Want Empathy? 3 Phrases To Ask for It
We all need a good listening ear sometimes. But how do we get it when it isn’t offered? Here are three phrases to communicate the need for empathy with others. Try them out!
Read MoreThe Best Valentine’s Gift? A Big Box of EMPATHY
This Valentine’s Day, give your lover, spouse, or best friend what they really deserve: Your undivided attention. Empathy means listening without fixing, talking about your stories, or wondering what will happen next on your favorite TV show. Learn how to be more empathetic with this post.
Read MoreIlluminate: Grow Self-Acceptance With These Four Techniques
Who would you be if you accepted yourself? In this last post about perfectionism, you will explore a tangible, research-backed exercise for increasing self-compassion. Take a moment to give to yourself today.
Read MoreIlluminate: Perfectionism, Pt 1
Perfectionism is the excessive fear of making mistakes. This week, I invite you to pay attention to how perfectionism, or the fear of making mistakes, shows up in your life.
Read MoreWhat Is The Root Belief of Your Perfectionism?
No one loves making mistakes, but some of us are more afraid of making a mistake than others. If you are one of these people, take a mindful moment to better understand where your fear comes from.
Read MoreIlluminate: Indulge in Asking Yourself This One Question
Empathy is lending our hearts, minds, and souls to others, but how can we give this to ourselves, too? This week’s Illuminate challenges us to indulge a bit by asking ourselves one simple question to unlock our heart’s deepest desires.
Read MoreHome for The Holidays? What Are Your Patterns?
Read MoreIlluminate: Where Do You Want to Go?
Take a moment to clarify your (emotional, professional, physical) destination + represent it in a fun way.
Read MoreWhat Relationship Pattern Holds You Back?
Everyone has their own pattern when it comes to relationships. ‘Attachment Styles’ have been studied in psychology for years, and its wisdom is now starting to find its way into everyday relationships. What’s your attachment style, and how can you best work with it?
Read MoreCultivate Growth Mindset with Unlikely Gratitude
Unlikely Gratitude: Finding the opportunity for growth in an otherwise, mundane, annoying, or horrible situation.
Read MoreIlluminate: What’s Behind Your Mask?
How often do we wear masks? Do we actually spend most (or all) of our lives wearing a protective costume so that we can hide who we really are? Learn about your unique masks in this simple + meaningful activity.
Read MoreWant a Good Long Life? 1 Clear Answer from Research
“It’s useful to know it’s a choice worth making.” The results from an 80-year-long research study clearly identify what we should focus on for a long and fulfilled life.
Read MoreYour Limiting Belief Demystified
It’s prickly, but it’s worth it. Learn more about your own limiting belief + tools for working through it, all thanks to the person who most annoys you. Take this moment to learn compassion- for yourself and for them.
Read MoreIlluminate: Who drives you NUTS?
Your ‘Sandpaper Person’ illuminates your own personal beliefs + opportunities for growth. This articles breaks down how to identify + learn from the person who most challenges you.
Read MoreIlluminate: What Leaves Could You Shed?
A powerful new framework for the season of fall: Take a moment this week to become clear about what is essential to YOU. And honor that the rest might shed away.
Read MoreIlluminate: The Burn Out, Part I
So often, when we are in a hard place, we just want to get out as quickly as possible. But transforming our muck into meaning takes time, acceptance, and understanding. Here is my story of a recent burn out, and how you, too, can transform your muck.
Read MoreIlluminate: Crafting Your Noble Goal
Three steps to tapping into your guiding purpose. Today’s the day to create or refine your understanding of what fuels you + fuels the world.
Read MoreIlluminate: What’s Your Brain’s Extreme Habit?
A guide to tempering it for better decision making. Dive into your own brain’s extreme preferences + explore some tools for teaching your brain that there is indeed a different way to look at things.
Read MoreIlluminate: Maybe You Should Change What You Wear?
Would wearing a doctor’s clothes really make you more attentive? Read on for one intriguing research study + a fun tip for boosting your emotional intelligence practice.
Read MoreThree Breaths for Lowering Your Cortisol Level
The science + practice behind mindful breathing. Take five minutes to give yourself the gift of resetting your nervous system.
Read MoreCraft Your Personal Affirmation in Five Steps
Effective affirmations are self-created, meaningful, and dig into one’s core values. Here’s a guide to creating one for yourself that will stick.
Read MoreThree Steps to Identifying Your Goals + Obstacles
The only person who has the responsibility to prioritize you IS you. Take a mindful moment to build self-awareness, set your goals, and Choose Yourself.
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