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How to Overcome the Fear of Rejection as a Woman

When was the last time you experienced the fear of rejection? Maybe you wanted to do something for the first time, get out of your comfort zone, ask someone for a favor, or reach out to someone, but your fear of rejection was holding you back from following through. In today’s post, I’ll share helpful questions to move through the fear or rejection and empowering mindset shifts to help you handle rejection. Before we start, let’s acknowledge that getting rejected sucks. You’ve probably heard quotes like ‘’Rejection is only a redirection’’ or ‘’Rejection is a sign from the Universe...

3 Signs Of Self-Sabotage: Are You Sabotaging Your Own Happiness?

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In this post, I share 3 common signs of self-sabotage. We’ll talk about how you might be holding yourself back from living the life you want and using your full potential. Oftentimes, we assume that other people are holding us back in life. We might blame our parents, partner, kids, or our boss for the lack of satisfaction in our lives. But that’s the easy way out; blaming others instead of taking responsibility into our own hands. But what about self-sabotage? What about all the different ways we keep ourselves stuck? No one else. Just our own thoughts, behaviors,...

How to Set Goals When You Don’t Know What You Want

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Setting new goals can be an exciting and inspiring process that helps you move toward your desired results in life. But how to set goals when you don’t know what you want in life? How to set goals when you feel confused and pressured to know what your future will look like? In this post, I will guide you in gaining clarity on what you want to do in your life, so you can start taking action on your goals. As a life coach, my job is not to tell you what you need to do. That’s not something...

6 Tips to Overcome Obstacles (Including Journal Prompts)

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In today’s post, I share with you how to overcome obstacles and what to do when things get difficult. It’s all nice and easy to follow through with your plans and take action on days when you wake up motivated. Those days when you get up on time, the weather is beautiful, the coffee is perfect, your hair looks great, and everything is just fantastic. It’s easy to feel motivated on days like those. Right? It’s easy to take action. But what about days when you don’t feel like it and you just want to watch Netflix? Or spend...

22 Deep Thought-Provoking Journal Prompts for New Goals

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Deep, thought-provoking journal prompts are an effective tool for understanding yourself better, uncovering what’s holding you back, and moving toward your desired future. Asking yourself these questions can help you: – gain clarity on what goals you actually want to pursue (and what’s just a distraction) – develop a resilient, solution-focused mindset to support you while taking action towards your goals – focus on the right action steps you need to take instead of trying out everything and wasting your time on things that don’t matter You can use these deep thought-provoking journal prompts for motivation, goal-setting, designing your...

20 Empowering Pieces of Life Advice for Women in Their 20s

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I wrote the majority of the following pieces of life advice for women in their 20s with such ease and enthusiasm, but when it came time to write the introduction… Crickets. How do you sum up what your 20s are all about? I guess your 20s are about struggling to follow society’s expectations while also wanting to have fun? Feeling the pressure to have it all figured out while being afraid to admit you have no idea what you’re doing? Society tells you that you should be married by the age of 30, have at least one kid (two...

8 Things to Do When You Don’t Feel Good Enough

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“Believe in yourself” is probably one of the most used motivational phrases around the world. You’ve heard it once or twice in your life. Maybe you’ve even repeated it yourself a couple of times more. The chances are this phrase has occasionally melted your insecurities away. It pumped you up and it kept you going through difficult times… But what happens when “believing in yourself” doesn’t seem to fix the problem? One of those bad days is here, and you feel incapable and unprepared. What do you do when “I believe in myself” doesn’t motivate you to take action...

8 Tips to Say No Without Feeling Guilty and Selfish

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In this blog post, you will learn mindset shifts to make and actions you can take to say no without feeling guilty. You will learn how to deal with the feeling that you’re letting someone down when saying no. This process can’t be summarized in one single action step. Instead, it takes a lot of awareness, a lot of realizations, and a-ha moments, which I’ll talk about today. Let’s dive in. 1) Recognize when saying yes to others means saying no to yourself The first step to becoming more self-aware of your people-pleasing habits is paying attention to what...