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Choose Your Thoughts: How to Stop Spiraling and Rewire Your Mind

What if you could choose your thoughts the same way you pick your clothes before going out? You try on different options (thoughts) until you get to one that feels really good and that you want to keep. Sounds simple, right? So how can you do that? How can you choose your thoughts even when unwanted ones pop up? And when you get a thought you like, how can you make it stick? In this post, I answer those questions and share guiding prompts to help you reflect in the moment so you can stop spiraling and master your...

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How to Take Back Your Power and Stop Living for Others

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In today’s post, I’m sharing how to take back your power by taking responsibility for your future, unlearning unhelpful stories you’ve heard, and reclaiming control over your reactions. Let’s dive in. 1) take responsibility for where you go from here “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” ― Joan Didion Sure, you can dig into your past to find what went wrong or how you have contributed to any negative situation that happened. Or, you can use what you have, the knowledge you already have, to help...

3 Toxic Mindsets That Sabotage Your Success (and How to Overcome Them)

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Have you noticed how many times we let our unhelpful thoughts run the show? How many times do we let a toxic mindset that makes us believe we’re not good enough stand in the way? Today, we’re naming some of the most common toxic mindsets so that you can recognize them and rise above them the next time they come up. Additionally, I’m sharing action steps and journal prompts to release each toxic mindset. Let’s dive in. 3 Toxic Mindsets That Keep You Small (and How to Reclaim Your Power) 1) thinking that small steps don’t matter “It is...

Overcoming Your Limiting Beliefs: 4 Steps to Set Yourself Free

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How often do you compare yourself to others, think you’re not good enough, or that you’re not ready yet? When thoughts like these stop you from taking action toward your goals, it’s time to make a change. It’s time for overcoming your limiting beliefs. But how do you actually do that? How do you overcome something you’ve been struggling with for years? As Alissa Finerman said in her book Living In Your Top 1%, you can choose between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. If you choose to adopt a growth mindset, you’ll see life as a learning process and believe...

5 Self-Improvement Books Every Woman Should Read

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When I think about self-improvement books, I don’t think it’s only about becoming more productive, waking up at 5 a.m., or trying to “fix” yourself. For me, the biggest growth has happened once I started working on my self-respect, self-worth, noticing the patterns I needed to break, and unlearning all the limiting narratives I’ve been told. The self-improvement books I’m sharing here are the kind I’d recommend to a friend who wants to understand herself better. We explore topics many women quietly struggle with: people-pleasing, boundaries, self-worth, shame, relationships, and the pressure to fit into certain roles. These aren’t...

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50 Self-Discovery Journal Prompts to Improve Your Life

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Do you sometimes feel a negative emotion and your first reaction is to fight it? In this post, instead of telling you how to escape your emotions, I’m sharing 50 deep thought-provoking self-discovery journal prompts to help you deal with your emotions and improve your life. “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ― Lao Tzu When it comes to mindset work and shifting your perspective, self-discovery journal prompts are my favorite tool. Let’s dive in! Self-discovery journal prompts 1. What are you struggling with right...

What to Do When You Can’t Find Yourself?

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What does finding yourself even mean? As I was scrolling through Pinterest a few moments ago, I came across an article titled “How to find yourself?” Just reading that title was enough to open a WordPress document and start sharing my opinion on finding yourself. First, what are we hoping to find? Probably a version of ourselves who has certain ambitions in life and is willing to take action toward achieving them. That person is not somewhere outside of ourselves. That person is not going to pop up in your mind and start screaming, “Hey! I’m here! Let’s live...

Dealing with Negative Comments: How to Protect Your Energy and Stay True to Yourself

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Dealing with negative comments is a skill worth mastering. We can come across unnecessary mean comments at work, in dating, family, hobbies, or even just walking down the street, minding our own business. You can’t control what other people say or how they say it. But you can decide whether you want to take what they said as truth and base your following actions on that. Or whether you want to leave them with their thoughts and create your own opinions. Let’s dive into how you can deal with negative comments while staying solid in your identity and not...