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Can Your Defense Mechanisms Keep You From Creating the Life You Want?

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In this article, I talk about 9 common defense mechanisms we employ in our lives. Most are used as a substitute for full expression of our thoughts and feelings (which I encourage), but you’ll find many of them useful nonetheless.

By the time you’re done reading this, you will understand what your defense mechanisms are and what you can do if you find yourself, or others, doing them. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Addiction, Behavior, Communication, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Thinking Tagged With: authenticity, defense mechanisms, expression

The Law of Attraction and Critical Thinking

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img-1Do you believe that if you continuously send vibrations out into the universe, they will meet ‘like’ vibrations and attract those things into your life?

It doesn’t make sense to me when I hear people talk about the Law of Attraction like that, however I do believe that when you make a firm decision to make something happen in your life, you will put into motion whatever it takes to make that thing happen. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Beliefs, Communication, Human Potential, Motivation, Passion Tagged With: energy, law of attraction, vibrations

How to live a more balanced life by accessing your inner strength

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BalanceYou have the strength and resources you need to create the balance that you deserve in your life. But there is a way to achieving balance that many people aren’t aware of. Well, 6 ways in this episode to be exact.

Balance creates more consistent states of happiness, and also allows you to make decisions and take action from a place of power, not fear.

In this episode, we dive into some deeper-level stuff that you may not necessarily have associated with balance. But by the end, you might discover something about yourself that helps you resolve some of the challenges in your life. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Beliefs, Human Potential, Podcast Episode, Relationships Tagged With: balance, inner strength, peace

The Decision to Leave or Stay in the Relationship

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Can you accept the behaviors of those you love? If not, are you still in the relationship?

You have a choice to walk away from the behaviors you can’t accept in life, or stay and accept them. In the end, what you really want is closure. Knowing the direction you need to take is a much more powerful place than waiting for something to happen. Lingering is no fun.

Click on the play button above the video to listen to the entire episode or choose to read it below. By the time you’re done, you’ll know if you’ve reached full acceptance of the people in your life, and if you are choosing to suffer or not.

When it comes to accepting what is, or not accepting, one choice leads to suffering and the other does not. [Read more…]

Filed Under: anxiety, Behavior, Divorce, Judgment, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Podcast Episode, Relationships Tagged With: divorce, judgment, Learning acceptance, love

How your needs drive your behavior and motivation

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Are all of your needs met? Do you know why you make the decisions you do?

Our needs motivate our behavior. If you respond to life’s events from a low level of survival, it’ll be more difficult to succeed in a loving relationship or keep steady employment or even gain a level of self-esteem and confidence. Let alone being able to pursue your hobby and passions.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Decisions, Human Potential, Motivation, Passion, Podcast Episode, Relationships Tagged With: How come I don't know my passion?, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Why do I do things that don't benefit me?, Why do I make stupid decisions?

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