I heard this story on a podcast today and love it. “There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence. On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number…
Have you ever said or done something in the heat of the moment when you were emotionally charged, that you wish you could have taken back? The old saying of “sleep on it, because it will look different in the morning” comes into play here. When we’re scared, angry or upset, a part of our brain kicks in that’s way more primal than the logical, rational side of our brain. Our amygdala is where our emotional…
I was chatting to a coaching client the other day about the anxiety she faces on an almost daily basis. Check out a video I recorded on YouTube discussing this topic. She noticed that she doesn’t feel anxiety when she’s exercising, at the beach, with friends or doing the things she loves. When we experience anxiety, our energy field literally leaves our physical body. We also do this when we experience depression, fatigue, and other painful emotions, or when we…