Posts by Shelley
#227- Journey of Attachment: How Overthinking Works Against You and Your Love Life
#227- Journey of Attachment: How Overthinking Works Against You and Your Love Life Overthinking is about fear and avoidance. When something happens around us, our brains work overtime to create a strategy for dealing with it. It becomes a game of mental ping pong, which is not productive because we’re just reacting to events outside of…
Read More#226- How Empowerment Changes Every Relationship In Your Life
#226- How Empowerment Changes Every Relationship In Your Life As you grow and become empowered, everything changes around you. One of the more difficult parts of growth is possible loss. As you grow, what used to suit you doesn’t anymore. Other people may see you differently and not like it, and/or you may see THEM…
Read More#225- Journey of Attachment: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Block You From What You Want
#225- Journey of Attachment: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Block You From What You Want We don’t realize how much we stand in our own way, making excuses to prove we can’t have what we want. These self-fulfilling prophecies, based on our negative beliefs, end up creating our reality. And it’s a reality we don’t want. I see…
Read More#224- Are You a Creator or Reactor in Your Life?
#224- Are You a Creator or Reactor in Your Life? Do you find yourself reacting to every little thing in your life, as though a force outside of you is carelessly tossing all your wants and desires to the wind? Or do you believe you’re the creator—in charge of your destiny? It can be a…
Read More#223- Journey of Attachment: Choosing Partners To Ensure You Stay Anxious
#223- Journey of Attachment: Choosing Partners To Ensure You Stay Anxious Anxiety and insecure attachment often go hand-in-hand. I’ve thought about this a lot recently because my boyfriend has no real concept of anxiety and that horrible feeling I used to have that I might die. Why? Because he’s securely attached. It’s helped me see how…
Read More#222- The Problem with Affirmations
#222- The Problem with Affirmations An affirmation is defined as a positive assertion. They are statements you want to be true (which currently aren’t), stated in the present tense AS IF they are true. Like, “I’m in a healthy, loving relationship.” There are different schools of thought around how to use affirmations, and I had…
Read More#221- Journey of Attachment: Looking for Certainty in an Uncertain World
#221- Journey of Attachment: Looking for Certainty in an Uncertain World We want other people to give us certainty so we can feel safe… because the outside world is unpredictable. We go to great lengths to control situations in order to feel secure, which only works in the very short term because true safety is…
Read More#220- My Way or the Highway: Bully and Dictator Behaviors
#220- My Way or the Highway: Bully and Dictator Behaviors Do you know people who pick fights all the time? They look for an opening to push their opinion or agenda. Or what about those who look for ways to manipulate and undermine others so they feel in control? Maybe YOU even have those tendencies at…
Read More#219- Journey of Attachment: Why Won’t He/She Commit?
#219- Journey of Attachment: Why Won’t He/She Commit? A lot of people have one foot in and one foot out… in all areas of life. In this podcast, however, I’m going to focus on commitment (or lack thereof) when it comes to long-term relationships, whether you are in one or want to be in one. We…
Read More#218- Feelings Won’t Kill You
#218- Feelings Won’t Kill You So many of you avoid feeling your feelings because you don’t know what’s on the other side. You’re afraid painful emotions might totally consume you, sending you deep into an abyss. Like if you try to release even the smallest bit, the flood gates will open and you’ll be stuck…
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