It can be difficult to know how to honor anger. Anger is either avoided and repressed (passivity) until it explodes, or it’s constantly on edge – volatile and eruptive (aggression). Why would we want to honor anger? Anger gets a bad rap because of its propensity to fuel violent behavior. But, anger isn’t the bad guy in and of itself…. Read More
The mirror technique for healing self-worth is a powerful practice. The mirror provides us with the reflection of our own perceptions, and that can be a strong ally along the path to truly loving ourselves. There is a distorted connotation in the modern West that loving yourself is somehow cheesy. We’ve been conditioned to believe that self-love is selfish and… Read More
The most powerful tool to get what you want is affirming your own authenticity. This seems simple. But, for many of us whose identities intersect in ways that have been historically and systematically oppressed, this is a radical act. Affirmations are potent tools. They help us reprogram faulty beliefs we hold at an unconscious level about who we are. They… Read More
You want to stop caring about what other people think. Because we’d all benefit from a little less obsessing over what people may (or may not) think of us, yeah? How often do you catch yourself perseverating on what you just said at that meeting that you fear wasn’t right? What about when you obsess about what your best friend… Read More
In this episode of WHR, I join Megyn Blanchard to deconstruct “false self” and what that looks like in our lives. Often “false self” gets espoused as something we are supposed to “demonize” or call out as “not true,” or see it as limiting. But this kind of thinking actually keeps us held hostage by “false self” because it doesn’t… Read More