What is love? What does love look like? How do we get the love we want? As humans we all have that longing for deep connection with other humans. We all desire to share our lives with someone, but what does that look like in real-life? For many we have watched and seen all the fairy-tales and Hallmark movies that show the exciting and passionate part of loving someone, but what they don't show is when loving someone becomes hard or even painful. Relationships whether romantic

New Year's Resolutions using SMART goals.

Sometimes we are merely existing, and it feels like the world is caving in. Life can feel insanely frustrating and overwhelming all at the same time. When we feel like the world is closing in, our fight/flight/freeze/fawn/flop mechanisms kick into high gear. We all deal with fear and frustration differently. Most of the time we either fight or we experience flight, but the ones talked about the least is freeze, fawn, flop. Fight: facing the challenge head on rather aggressive

We have all had times where we have felt stuck and we don't know what is coming next. When we have felt helpless and hopeless. Those are the times where generally one of two things will happen: we rise to the challenge or we are consumed by the despair of our circumstance. More often than not when we rise to the challenge we see our own strength and our confidence builds. It is not always easy to face the challenges in our lives. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission

Over the past few weeks many are grieving for different reasons. Grief is something that we all experience at some point in our lives. Grief is defined as: intense emotional suffering and mental anguish caused by loss, most commonly the death of a loved one, but also other significant losses like a divorce, job loss, or serious illness. Grief is a personal, complex, and often unpredictable process involving feelings of sadness, anger, loneliness, and confusion, and can also

We all come from different backgrounds and experiences, so we look at how our loved ones communicate through those lens. Our perception dictates how we hear what our loved ones are saying. Remember that your perception of what is said does not mean that that was your loved ones intent.

So, here we go...fear. What are some of your biggest fears and how do they impact your dreams, and your life? As previously stated in the last blog, some will thrive on a healthy amount of fear, but others will let their fear do toxic amounts of damage I’m not saying that we don’t have things that happen in our lives that can promote fear, I’m suggesting it’s how we handle it that determines where we go. We can thrive through the fear, or we can desegregate from the fear.

This is my first blog ever! There’s so much that I want to say, but I’ve decided that picking a topic is the best way to go. So, I’ll start with what’s your biggest dream? When we were kids, it was easy to dream and dream big. Some would say they wanted to be astronauts, doctors, lawyers, dancers, etc.