Learning how to analyze your dreams can give you insights into thoughts, feelings, and desires that you may be too busy, or unwilling to acknowledge during waking hours. Furthermore, our subconscious is at play in dreams, influencing what shows up in them. By paying attention to our dreams we can tap into the insights of…
I’ve been trying to be a better friend to myself for about 5 years now. For most of my life I had pretty harsh voices in my head, like my inner critic, my judge, and my task-master. Over time, this has a pretty negative impact on my well-being. At some point, I began to question…
It’s easy to make friends when you are young and in school, surrounded by people your age who are also eager to make friends. This changes, however, as you get older. Most adults between the ages of 40-60 have busy lives, families of their own to manage, work schedules to juggle, and established social…
Now that you’ve got your word of the year, you may be wondering what exactly you do with it. How do you use your word of the year to influence and improve your life? How do you keep your word of the year top of mind? There are three things to think about for putting…
So how are those New Year’s resolutions going? Have you already broken half of them? For most of my life, that was me! I would create massive lists of New Year’s resolutions in the belief that if I only kept one or two I would still be ahead in the game of life. But I…
I still remember my inner critic talking to me before I published my first YouTube video a few months ago. “What are you doing! You can’t go on YouTube! You’re too old! Your video skills are too basic. No one is going to watch. You’ll look foolish!” Fortunately, I had been working on my inner…
We all want to feel happy, to lead happy, fulfilling lives. The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in our constitution! And yet, many of us feel depleted, burnt out, overwhelmed. That’s where a self-care action plan can help! My Story I’ve spent years trying to figure out how to find some measure of happiness in…
I know when you have a million things to do, the last thing you want to do is add something new like journaling. But if you can just give it a one or two week trial, you’ll begin to see the benefits! In this article I’ll talk about the benefits of journaling, how to get…
So what is self-care? At the most basic level, it is about taking care of yourself and doing activities that promote your well-being. Sounds easy, right? All we need to do is find an article that lists a bunch of self-care activities that sound good and do them! Well not quite! Most self-care advice has…
Life is Precious Momento Mori, which means contemplating your own mortality, was commonly practiced by the Stoics centuries ago to remind them of how precious life was. It can be easy to lose sight of this, when we get lost in our thoughts and are dealing with the hassles and inconveniences of daily life, or…