Confidence / Emotional Awareness

Starting to Recognise and Understand Resentment

At different times in our life, we can feel and experience resentment. Today on the journal, I wanted to share a little more about starting to recognise and understand resentment. What is Resentment? In order to get clarity on resentment, I did some research. These are some of the definitions of resentment that we found…

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Time to Reconnect to Your Joy?

Is it time to reconnect with your joy or is something deeper calling you? Joining the Dots… A few weeks ago, I caught up with a close friend. We had a great conversation and then she asked if I had coached tennis before. I said yes a bit, however that moment will be etched in…

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What is Emotional Regulation and Why Is It Important?

Recently I have been chatting with a number of people about emotional regulation. Subsequently, today I wanted to put some thoughts in writing. What is Emotional Regulation? Emotional regulation continues to evolve. Subsequently, there are a number of definitions on emotional regulation, including – After reading the above, how do you define emotional regulation for…

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Asking for Help is a Sign of Humanity, Not Weakness

Last night I locked myself out of my unit. This was the third time in 22ish years. However, last night was different. Yes the situation / context was very similar – I locked myself out of my unit. However, the difference was my reaction, my inner talk and how I handled it. In my heart…

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Time to Start Activating Your Inner Resources?

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl One thing I know for sure is that we ALL have challenges in life. Yes these challenges or issues from pain to stress…

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Time to Create Your Joy List?

If you have been reading the journal for a while, you may already know one of the books that really helped me along my whole-hearted connection adventure was the Top Five Regrets of the Dying. I came across it around the time of my first 10-day silent meditation retreat. Yes, that time when I was working…

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The Sixth Stage of Grief – Finding Meaning

Grief and loss can be challenging for many of us. I don’t think I really knew too much about it growing up. However, later on in my life (maybe from about 30ish), I became acutely aware how much loss I had experienced (without actually realising it). A few years back now, I wrote an article…

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Figuring Out Emotions Using An Emotions Journal

Figuring Out Emotions Using An Emotions Diary. In this post I share how I continue to figure out emotions using an emotions diary.

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Reclaiming My Courage By Acknowledging and Navigating Fear

During the past few weeks, more changes and opportunities for transformation continue to present themselves in my life. Yes there are the obvious changes being presented with our current situation with the pandemic, however I also have a number of others. In the past, these changes would have sent me straight in to fear, worry…

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