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I'm offering you a hope rope for Christmas

Did you know Christmas is only 10 weeks away?

Ā Let's be real....

Does that excite you or scare you? Do you dread Christmas because of all it brings? Or has brought in the past? Overwhelm, anxiety, burno...

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Do the words you say shape who you are today?

Did you know that by simply changing a few words in how we talk we can shift our stories from victim and being stuck to growth and empowerment?

Instead of:
I have to fold all of this laundry. ------> I ...

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We build limiting beliefs and stories around experiences

Some examples might be:
-You may eat pizza one day and find you had a gut ache the next day, so you connect the gut ache to the pizza. From that day on, you believe that pizza aka gluten is bad for you...

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You are a human being, not a human doing.

POV: You stop what you are doing, lay on the grass and watch the geese fly south.

Cause you were created a human being not a human doing.

It is safe to just be. We don't need to be doing constantly...

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YOU ARE NOT BROKEN

Can we look a little deeper and maybe question if there is a bigger story going on then just anxiety, depression, mood swings, isolation, etc when an adult or a child is struggling. The truth is, ther...

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Common limbic system impairment symptoms

Do any of these sound familiar? Do any surprise you?

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What kind of construction site are you wandering through?

Last night the road that goes right past our driveway was different than what we were used to the last 18 months. There were less signs, less buildings, and less equipment sitting around. An old bridg...

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Are you having a bad day or are you hung up on 5 minutes of bad and can't move on?

Our nervous system tries to protect us by keeping us stuck in replay for hours. It even feels unsafe to move on. The 'issue' is long past and we still feel like its a bad day. Part of healing is learn...

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Could you be stuck?

There are many, everyday behaviors we as a society have accepted as normal behaviors. Some we have even accepted as personality traits.

• Do you find yourself overanalyzing about every detail, making s...

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We had a brain retraining reunion!

I just got back from being on holidays. I want to tell you briefly about my holiday because it does have to do with brain retraining after all. Imagine getting together with 15 others who have also be...

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Do you want a new chapter? Tired of spinning on the same page?

When we experience traumatic experiences our nervous systems make a big deal about them for years after even though the danger is long past. Here is an example of my own life.

In my time of being chron...

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Are you afraid of failure?

Are you afraid of taking the leap because just what if you can't do it?
What if you don't catch on?
What if you don't have the energy to follow through?
What if you make a fool of yourself?
What if you ...

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