overcoming

This week, I needed a perspective tune up. Yep. That’s right. I have been feeling very sad about the fact that my oldest daughter, Jennifer and my four grandbabies (one on the way, too) are moving to Nova Scotia. Changing my Perspective Because I have all of this experience with NLP, visualization, and changing thought [...]

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It is becoming more common…this notion…this misconception that we need to be perfect and that we are not good enough. I am seeing it more and more in clients, friends and family. That belief can underlie so many problems with relationships with others (and certainly the relationship we have with ourselves). Believing that we are [...]

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Did you feel that you needed to be perfect growing up? Perfectionist tendencies are most often started when people are children. It can have its origins in the school system, in peer groups, or be handed down from parents through expectations. Recently, on Grey’s Anatomy, there was a very brilliant scene. Mark Sloan, a perfectionist [...]

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Have you been plagued by relationship anxiety? Has it been a factor in your life because of your own anxiety or because of the anxiety of a partner? Nerves and butterflies are fine – they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager.  You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's [...]

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Adversity can come in many forms.  Adversity can be small things that build up over time, little shocks to the system. Adversity can be big things, like job loss, abuse, accidents, war, fighting, financial woes, relationship problems. The list goes on. Being resilient is an admirable quality. Some people bounce back from adversity and negative [...]

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