How often do you say or hear the words “you make me feel…” or “they made me do….”? I hear this time and time again. “He made me so angry”! “She pushed me into it”. “He sent me broke”. “It’s her fault I did it”. My response to this is nobody can “make” you feel or do anything; your response and actions are always a choice. ALWAYS. How you speak, act…
I was talking to a client last week who described a life changing event when he was 14. He smoked weed for the first (and last) time, and since then he felt like he’s been watching life through a veil, or from behind glass. He’s had heightened anxiety and struggles to relate to those around him. He’s looked into it on google and found the terms “derealization” and “depersonalisation.” “Derealization is an alteration in the perception…
We all have days where the Negative Nancy/Ned in our head spirals out of control. Where lack of sleep, pain or illness, our environment or whatever it might be, gets the better of us. But our mindset is key here to how far we allow ourselves to spiral down the rabbit hole of shitty thoughts. We all have good and bad days – that’s part of life. Have you ever noticed how people who constantly complain have more bad…
I was listening to a podcast the other day and the interviewee was talking about the best piece of advice he ever received from a mentor.“You must master your environment before you depart it.”There are times where this isn’t possible or safe to do so – for example, in a situation of domestic violence.But the statement got me thinking about how a lot of us will jump from one similar situation to another, never learning the lessons and so repeating…