Sensitive & Self-Assured | Confidence | Set Boundaries | Self-acceptance | Find Your Purpose | Self-esteem

Do you lack or have limited self-confidence? Have fear of trying something new? Tell yourself “I could never do _____”?

For years, I tried to change how I am wired, and ended up depressed and a shell of myself. I became fearful of almost everything. I rarely left the house, and wasn’t honest with those closest to me about my thoughts and feelings. I had no confidence to be myself.

Eventually, the pain of putting m...

If you haven't listened to part one of this conversation yet, this half will hit so much deeper once you have.

In part two, Randi Halaway and I get personal in a different way. We talk about the meanings we attach to our own emotions, and how those meanings shape everything from a simple conversation to an entire relationship. I share a moment with my partner where I realized my strength and his strength look completely different, ...

You've been taught that power means control. That letting go means losing something. That if you stop holding on so tight, everything falls apart.

What if it's the opposite.

In this two part conversation, I sit down with coach Randi Halaway to talk about personal power, not as force, but as surrender. Randi shares what it looked like when she lost touch with her own power, the marriage that lasted four months and became her wake up...

You send a text. Hours pass. No reply.

Somewhere in that silence, your brain starts writing a story. “She’s upset with me. I did something wrong.”

You never asked it to. It just did.

In this episode, I explore the way our brains fill in gaps with information they don't actually have and present it to us as fact. From imagining what a stranger looks like before ever seeing a photo, to inventing what someone must be...

You're sitting in a meeting. You have a thought, a question, an idea worth sharing. Then the filter kicks in. What if it's a dumb question? What if I should already know this? What if I upset someone?

You say nothing. The meeting moves on. You leave feeling invisible, even though you had so much to offer.

This isn't a confidence problem you were born with. It's a learned pattern, often one that started long before this job. And lea...

For decades, my guest couldn't stop absorbing the emotions of everyone around her - her clients, her students, and even strangers in a room - and it took her years to understand she wasn't broken. She was highly sensitive, and no one had ever taught her what to do with that.

In this conversation, somatic therapist and counselor educator Alexandra Goldwell shares what three decades of working with highly sensitive people (and being ...

Lately, I’ve been having similar conversations with several of my clients. They find themselves back in old habits and old thought patterns they were sure they'd already worked through, and the frustration that follows can be brutal. There's this quiet shame that creeps in, like the work was supposed to be finished by now and certain challenges should have been resolved for good.

So today I'm revisiting an episode from last s...

You're in a room full of people you genuinely like. A topic comes up. You have something real to say. And then the internal checklist starts. Is this the right moment? Will that sound weird? What if they disagree? By the time you've run through all of it, the moment is gone. You say nothing. You leave early. And the next three days, you replay everything you wished you had said.

Today I’m talking about what is happening when ...

There's a voice inside. You know the one. The one that shows up when your needs feel like too much, when you're convinced you're a burden, when you're replaying a moment everyone else has probably already forgotten. And instead of offering yourself any grace, you listen to it. You agree with it. You let it win.

In this episode, we're talking about what it means to have compassion for yourself, not as a concept, but as something you...

In Part 2 of my conversation with Trisha Veldman, we pick up where we left off and move into some of the most thought-provoking territory of the entire conversation. We discuss being the movie star of your own life, what it truly means to be powerful and poised, and a perspective on creativity and overthinking that I genuinely have not been able to stop thinking about since we recorded.

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