Quick. You’re feeling feelings you don’t want to feel. What do you do? As I explained in Part 1 of this post, if you’re like most people, you run to your favourite vice—coffee, sweets, ciggys, your phone (or, maybe you grab your list of positive affirmations and dance...
Disclaimer: What I'm sharing is what I've learned through studying my own amygdala's complex defense systems (I grew up with PTSD and disassociation), my extensive research into how the mind processes emotions, and especially my intuitive ability to learn what my...
Today, I want to share a personal story with you that I rarely share with anyone. It’s about a powerful spiritual experience I had that showed me, once and for all, that stories shape your reality. They shape who you were, who you are, and who you can become next, and...
Image By h.koppdelaney Your heart feels like it’s being crushed. Someone you love is pulling out of your life. Maybe it’s because they want you to be someone you can’t be, someone you used to be. Or perhaps you want them to be someone they can’t be. Either way,...
Today, while taking my partner’s mother, Leri, for a walk in the hospital—she has advanced, stage 4 cancer—we found a wig store. We went inside. The manager, a survivor of breast cancer herself, didn't pay attention to Leri's impossibly thin body or her wrinkled...