What’s Better Than Giving Advice

What’s Better Than Giving Advice

Giving unsolicited advice to people rarely helps them. While it feels productive and pleasing to the advice-giver, it usually makes the person on the receiving end defensive and self-doubting. If you really want to help someone, try genuinely listening to them, asking...
Being Angry about Being Angry

Being Angry about Being Angry

Emotions are just energy and energy never lasts in the same form forever. It takes on average two hours for anger to fully dissipate and that’s if we don’t keep fueling the fire by being angry with the fact that we are angry.Emotions are the most natural part of being...
The Good and Bad Powers of Self-doubt

The Good and Bad Powers of Self-doubt

It took one instant for her confidence to turn into doubt and then self-doubt. At first she thought the other dog might be her friend but then the mutt pulled a weird face and it was no longer clear, ‘maybe she doesn’t like me after all?!’, my dog thought. Her...
The Power of Mini Reflection Moments

The Power of Mini Reflection Moments

We get so caught up in our days with all the things on our plate that we often find ourselves running on autopilot. And while we may feel we are being efficient in this state, it actually causes us to lose vital information our mind and body are trying to share with...