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How to Stop Grasping for the Past So You Can Live for the Now
“As we grow, our mortality becomes more imminent and real. There is a fragility that comes with aging in both the spiritual sense and the physical sense. With every year and every insecurity about aging, there is an invitation to treasure the experience of being alive. To fully accept and appreciate.”
What We Need to Understand about Anger
“Anger is an experience of life that we too often overlook or suffocate. We know when we are angry, yet we rarely choose to explore it. Rather, we learn from an early age to suppress our anger, rage, and other painful emotions. In my experience as an intuitive life coach, I see anger impact my clients in a myriad of ways, such as anxiety, panic attacks and depression, all because they do not healthily respect and work with this innate and critical emotion.”
Dropping Your Need to be ‘Liked’
When did the need to be liked become an epidemic? Ancestrally, humans need to be accepted to optimize our survival rate. Being accepted today, however, has taken on a new need. It has less significance on our ability to survive and more to do with a belief that the opinions of others can determine our emotional well-being and reinforce deep feelings of inadequacies. We need to collectively work to let this go.
Looking to Find More Joy in a World Filled With Pain? Here Are 6 Practices to Start Today
I have discovered more depth and wisdom in the hard memories that are still active in my heart and mind. Many of these stem from moments seemingly insignificant to others, but still, they hurt. But with each year, and every turn toward myself, the wounds that remain teach me more about resilience, gratitude, and joy. And they have taught me to believe.
11 Professionals Helping People Find More Satisfying, Successful Careers
“It should not take a lifetime to thrive in a career,” says R.A. Leslie who believes that people need inspiration and clarity to thrive because that is what breeds motivation. “When we are inspired, we are filled with boundless energy to grow, create, share, and lead,” says the bicoastal transformational coach and speaker. Leslie works with her clients to tap into this clarity through dialogue. Her sessions are heartfelt and intuitive. Leslie goes deep, asking about her clients’ childhood and pain points. This digging, she believes, unlocks a sense of wonder and appreciation that allows us to see our careers as “an alchemy that we create.”
WHY JOURNALING IS A POWERFUL WELLNESS EXERCISE FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE: A Q&A WITH R.A. LESLIE
R.A. Leslie was twelve-years-old when she started journaling. She bought a little white diary with a purple rhinoceros on it. As the ink touched the paper it was charged with her "twelve-year-old thoughts." It was freeing. It was also private and safe, a sacred practice between her and her thinking. And each time she finished, she would lock the pages with a tiny key.
This practice—a curious and deliberate exercise in self-care—was a harbinger of Leslie's future. Today she is a transformational coach, speaker, and author. Leslie works with her clients to go deep, helping them to discover pain points and trauma, and untap creativity. And she credits the formation of her methodology, as well as the basis of her books and creative journal, to her life-long practice of writing down her thoughts. "Journaling," she says, "literally created my life and healed it."