Have you ever noticed how easy it is to spot when your mate is self-sabotaging themselves, but how when it’s you doing the same thing, you justify your behaviour? 🤔 You tell yourself you’re just keeping the peace, “letting it go”, “being chill” or compromising, being kind or “holding space”. But are you actually just abandoning yourself by people-pleasing, letting them walk all over you and having shitty boundaries? You abandon yourself every time you: 🌀 Say yes when…
I recently posted this reel on my Coach Carly page and Sue commented “more about the fawning experiences please, so here we go! In the past, when people used to talk about living in survival mode, they would refer to “fight, flight and freeze” modes. Fight, flight and freeze refers to well-known stress responses that occur when the body senses it’s in danger, prompting a release of hormones to either help you fight or run away to essentially save your…
Let’s face it, there are days where we don’t feel 100%. There are days where you might feel more like 40%. But if you can commit to giving every day your best, then you’re always showing up for yourself + those around you. If I’m catching up with a mate + I’m only feeling 40%, they’re getting 100% of that 40% that day. Life is full of challenges + demands. We get tired, sore…
Are you in the midst of depression right now? I experienced depression in 2010 + 2011 + wanted to share some of the things that helped me through it. ☀️ laying in the sun for as long as I could listening to positive affirmations flat out. Even though I didn’t believe those affirmations at the time I knew it was better to have that flooding my brain to take the edge off my own thoughts. …
This last week I was unwell with a fluey cold and watched WAY too much Netflix, but was good to get some relaxation time in for my body. One thing I watched was The Kindness Diaries. This is a doco about Leon, a guy who travels from Alaska to Argentina in a very old yellow VW Beetle, solely on the kindness of others. He’s not able to spend or accept any money; instead, he has to ask others for…