What the Hell is My Brain Doing?

Can you believe we are already halfway through December? It’s that time of year. Almost all of us are doing it… No, I am not talking about shopping or overdosing on holiday treats but yeah….we are all probably doing that too. Many of us are looking at our 2023 and planning our 2024. Maybe it’s a personal goal. Perhaps you want to commit to a better sleep routine or it could be a more consistent ex...

Happy December to my amazing listeners! Another amazing Tuesday is here and it’s time for another important topic in protecting your emotional energy. Do you have a friend or maybe family member where EVERYTHING that happens to them is just a little more than you? Doesn’t matter if it’s a good or bad situation, if you share something that happens, they have had something similar happen on a grande...

Happy December to my amazing listeners! We have been talking a lot about things that may ruffle the feathers of those around us when we implement them into our lives. Let’s review… We have talked about setting healthier boundaries which can lead some people to think you are pushing them away when really you are creating space for your energy. We’ve discussed how to better manage difficult conversa...

Before we talk about today’s episode, I just want to take a moment to say there is a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment. In my 20 years as a clinician and 10 years as a business owner, I have helped hundreds of clients either move their professional career forward or improve the profitability of their business by 6 & 7 figures. If you are ready to make your business rock solid or ta...

Before we talk about today’s episode, I just want to take a moment to say there is a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment. In my 20 years as a clinician and 10 years as a business owner, I have helped hundreds of clients either move their professional career forward or improve the profitability of their business by 6 & 7 figures. If you are ready to make your business rock solid or ta...

Before we talk about today’s episode, I just want to take a moment to say there is a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment. In my 20 years as a clinician and 10 years as a business owner, I have helped hundreds of clients either move their professional career forward or improve the profitability of their business by 6 & 7 figures. If you are ready to make your business rock solid or ta...

I cannot believe we are in the month of November my friends! Once again, I am welcoming an amazing guest on the podcast that I believe will be very timely as we start reflecting on 2023 and preparing for 2024. My friend, Yolanda Boyarin is an expert manifestation coach and I have brought her on to talk about both the science and beliefs associated with the idea of manifestation. Many people hear t...

BOO! Happy Halloween to my amazing people! My favorite part of this holiday time of year is experiencing them through the eyes of my children. My husband and two of my girls LOVE the scary movies. Which is fine…I suppose. My other daughter and I are not fans of the scary movies. But watching those scary movies with my kids allows me to have some new perspective on the emotion of fear. You see I re...

Hi there my lovely people! Have you ever wondered “Why do I feel stuck?” I had a client recently that came to me with this feeling. She had been making amazing progress on a few personal goals but then for one reason or another, sort of “slid backwards” as it were. I was able to work with her to get to the root of where these feelings of being “stuck” were coming from and now she is back on track...

So happy you are here my awesome people. The days are getting shorter and colder- Fall is finally here for many of us! Often times in the fall, we start to reflect on the year and plan potential changes. Have you wondered why when we start to plan changes, sometimes our brain says “NO!?” It’s because your brain is evolved to keep you safe and to our primal brain, “change” often meant “danger.” See...

Here we are for another great week my lovely people! Have you ever found yourself uncomfortable with a decision you have already made? I know I have been there… You see my husband and I decided to be a little crazy once upon a time and try to sell a house, have a baby, buy a house and then move into that new house all in the space of 1 week…. In the midst of that week, some things happened that ma...

October is here! We are in the last quarter of the year and officially starting into the holiday season. There are so many holidays coming up in the fall such as Halloween, Diwali, Rosh Hashana, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah or Christmas to name a few. Many emotions can come up during holidays and at times it can feel overwhelming. So, I decided that we should talk about how to process our emotions. And...

Alright my awesome people, today we are back with a really fun interview with another fantastic coach. I am welcoming Courtney Koenig , Certified Business Coach and Human Design Reader, to discuss the field known as Human Design. Human Design is a recent development within the world of self-knowledge and personality testing systems. You are probably already familiar with some of these systems such...

Hello again to another amazing day! Today we are continuing our discussion through the nervous system and its sub systems. Have you heard of the Vagal system? The Vagal system is divided into two parts, the Ventral and Dorsal Vagal systems. The Ventral Vagal system governs your social engagement. It is responsible for scanning your environment and your interactions with others in a social situatio...

How in the world are we halfway through September?! The time is flying by but that won’t stop us from continuing our journey to better understand our brain. This is week 2 in my deeper dive into how our nervous system reacts to stimuli. Today we are talking about the “Autonomic Nervous System” and specifically the sympathetic & para-sympathetic response systems. These two systems work in tande...

Happy Labor Day my lovely people! I hope you were able to do something that brings you joy during yesterday’s holiday. Did you know that your brain NEEDS vacations? True Story! I thought about this a lot when I visited my family a few weeks ago in Southeast Idaho and we went to Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone is one of my all-time favorite places to recharge my physical and emotional reserves. Drivi...

Greeting’s my lovely friends. Once again, we are finishing another whirlwind month talking with an amazing expert. This time we are discussing the critically important field of sleep health! I am so happy to welcome Martha Lewis, Founder and CEO of TheSleepDetective.com to talk about why sleep is so important and potential issues to be aware of around sleep. Sleep is fundamental to our biological...

Welcome back to another great week! I am fresh off a speaking engagement for a large conference of highly accomplished professional women. The primary topic of the conference was best practice in the fields of project and proposal management… But they also reserved a number of their workshops for topics related to more generalized leadership skills. I was invited to speak and present one of my mos...

Another week is upon us my lovely friends! I cannot believe how quickly the summer has flown by. I am really hoping you have been finding some value in my theme of productivity for the month of August. We are getting into a potentially hectic time of year for some people. People are getting back into the grove of work from summer vacations. Everyone is prepping for school to start. And I have alre...

Greetings and welcome back! Procrastination. What’s your response to that word? Shame? Guilt? Judged? Interestingly as I was pondering all of the thoughts we frequently have around procrastination, I realized there is a lot negativity and judgment. We place a lot of qualitatively punitive language around this word and concept. We make procrastination some sort of factor in our net worth. When we l...

Can you believe it is August?? It seems the year is flying by and we find ourselves moving into the second half of the year. We find ourselves having all sorts of frenetic energy as we are coming back off of vacations and preparing for kids to go back to school. Businesses are often doing their forecasts for what the rest of the year is going to look like as well. And for many we assess how produc...

Have you ever wondered why you buy the things you buy? I mean sometimes, you buy certain things simply due to lack of choice or because it fills a very immediate need. But often, we have options and time to think about it. So how do we choose from the veritable sea of options available to us? Maria Platusic is a brand marketing expert with expertise in the science of design and branding and today...

“So, are you an Introvert or an Extrovert?” Have you been asked this question before? Maybe you have asked this question of yourself as you pondered your social interactions for the day. Regardless of how you first encountered some form of this question the concepts of Introvert and Extrovert have become innocuous in western society. You see human’s love to label and categorize things. I don’t mak...

Today’s episode concludes our 3-week overview of our three circles of health. To review, we covered the physical circle of health and the importance of the dopamine system. The why and how our brain physically interacts with stimuli like sleep and nutrition. Then we talked about the emotional circle of health. Things like setting healthy boundaries and knowing that it’s ok to have different feelin...

Happy 4th of July Holiday to my USA listeners! Holidays can stir many emotions for people. Holidays hopefully serve as a time for relaxation, celebration and reflection. For some though, holidays are filled with “shoulds” that potentially create anxiety. The “shoulds” might take the form of feelings of obligations. I SHOULD want to go see family for the big celebration. I SHOULD work myself to the...