We are all living in a very different reality than we were a month ago. Just like “normal” life, quarantine life has its own unique set of advantages and disadvantages. In the spirit of smoothing out the rough edges, I’ve compiled for you 17 ideas to make quarantine life easier. Please note that a lot of these suggestions work outside of a quarantine too! What have you found that works for you? Please join the conversation in our community Facebook Group here – or comment below. 17 Ideas to Make (Quarantine) Life Easier 1.Take the Pressure Off – You do not need to write your book, launch your ..read more

To say there is a lot going on in the world right now is a gross understatement. It can make it hard to find your center amidst such massive change. What is occurring is unprecedented. There is no playbook on how to navigate a global shut-down and its impact on our day-to-day lives. The rules are changing by the minute. The overwhelm is real and understandable. The proverbial rug has been pulled out from underneath us and we are falling through the air trying to find solid ground on which to put our feet. At least that’s how it feels for me. So let’s find some solid ground shall we? Find Your ..read more

The world of self-help – whether you are attempting to be more productive, reduce stress, overcome anxiety, lose weight, make more money, accomplish goals, fix bad habits, be healthier, etc. – can be boiled down to one overarching goal: We want to feel better. We want to feel OK at our most fundamental level. This is the promise of self-help. Life is full of ups and downs. Beautiful and challenging experiences. From this conditioning, it makes sense that finding a consistent way to feel better will give us a consistently better experience. Note the first conditioned belief: that it is necessar ..read more

If you are considering hiring a life coach, it is important to have clear expectations of what life coaching is – and is not – so that you can find the best coach for you. It took me about 10 years of coaching, hundreds of hours of training, and thousands of client hours to embrace the term “life coach”. I had some issues with this title. There are some mainstream preconceptions – myths even – about life coaching that I wanted to steer clear from. What occurred to me recently was that I could embrace “Life Coach”, while debunking these myths head on. In fact, that would probably be m ..read more

Over the years while working with clients around stuck habits like procrastination, anxiety, stress, I’ve noticed an interesting trend: Food cravings can be triggered by a variety of physical or mental factors. A hormonal imbalance, a poor diet, high stress levels, or insufficient sleep or physical activity may cause these symptoms. Binging, weight loss, sugar addiction, cravings, etc. can often go hand-in-hand with self-sabotage, anxiety, and the great desire to get unstuck. For about a decade I struggled with the food cravings, ups and downs of weight loss, binging on sugar, and a general ob ..read more

The claustrophobia was coming in waves. We’d been sitting on the tarmac for hours and I really wanted to get off the plane. So far I had been able to ride through the intermittent panic by distracting myself with repeated games of solitaire on my iPad. There were a lot of thoughts swirling in my head… “Think of a spacious, happy, place.” “Everyone else is being so calm – you can buck up and handle this.” “You can only feel your thinking about this small space – a small space can’t give you this feeling.” None of it was helping. claustrophobia!!! Finding a solution for my claustrophobia… After ..read more

A very common frustration among my clients is how to make a decision. They can spin for days or weeks or months trying to figure out the best course of action. The question beneath this frustration is, “How do I make the right decision?” There is an extra layer of anxiety “on” this decision – what if you screw up and pick the wrong thing? Here’s a slightly different take on how to make a decision that has helped quiet that anxiety and allowed me to move forward with much more ease. How to Make a Decision I had a mentor once tell me that there is no such thing as a “decision” – it’s only at som ..read more

What do you do when you have a test coming up or performance or some other event you are feeling nervous about? We’ve been taught to try and manage feelings that we don’t like – to fix them. So we dive into the feelings in an attempt to navigate them most effectively – we analyze the feeling – we study harder – we find something to DO as an attempt to make it go away. This video aims to give you another option for how to deal with nerves as your event is coming up – or even right in the middle of it all.  I walk you through a fundamental logic that clarifies the feelings from t ..read more

I love working with procrastinators. Everyone has their own reasons why they procrastinate. Some of the more common causes I hear are fear of success or failure, a desire for perfection, indecision paralysis, or just not being clear on where to start. All of which can surely play a role in developing a habit of procrastination. And yet after working with procrastinators for over a decade I’ve noticed two solid trends: – Procrastinators spend a lot of time figuring out why they procrastinate – Analyzing the why is another form of procrastination So here is surprising reason #1: You do ..read more

There is only once place that anxiety about the future ever exists: right now. It can be very compelling – I’ve been here thousands of times in my life – to think about what could happen and to assume the feelings generated by that thinking actually mean something about the future. Spoiler alert: they can’t. Research has shown this is one way we try to manage anxiety. We develop most likely scenarios that look like they limit the scope of possibilities and thereby limit uncertainty. Alternatively we set intentions, goals, or make plans and decisions to further mitigate uncertainties and manage ..read more