I heard myself say on more than one occasion since the economy start floundering that I was secretly glad so many people were having to change their lifestyles.

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The New Year provides a great opportunity to “Press the Reset Button on Your Life.”
Many resource guides out there (and there are quite exceptional ones, I might add!) purport to tell you exactly how to reflect back on your year and how to finally find the happiness you’ve been looking for.
January is a loaded month, [...]

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Anxiety is a heart-racing, skin-sweating, heavy-breathing, “I’m going to die” feeling overtakes some people so fast, that the fear of having an anxiety attack can begin to be even more of a fear than the actual anxiety attack itself.

There are four types of destructive, anxiety-prone personalities. Identify which one you are, then use the 4-step process to overcome not only anxiety, but any emotion that keeps you from fully excelling the way you’re meant to.

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Common tools used to combat negative emotions such as low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety assume the preceding negative thoughts are illogical so you should talk back to them. It’s a self-protection technique – a defense to your psyche and some could say, even denial. Acceptance Paradox is about taking responsibility.

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It’s in our nature to want to defend ourselves when we are told we are to blame in a situation. But there is no blame here, only personal responsibility. Personal responsibility means simply, accepting the grain of truth in the criticism and in the failings of the relationship.

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