RiseUp - Live Joy Your Way

Emotional safety is the foundation of a healthy relationship. People want to feel loved and respected in a relationship, but it’s impossible to feel that if you don’t feel safe in the relationship. When you have emotional safety, you are able to express yourself freely and be who you are without judgment.    When we’re in relationships where we don’t feel safe, there is a higher chance of people f...

How often have you had a poor day or have been disappointed that the day didn’t turn out how you wanted it to? Have you ever felt furious, unhappy, disappointed that you weren’t able to change the situation? Maybe you felt like you didn’t have control and it was someone else’s fault that caused you to spiral or derail.    The truth is many of us escape in self-sabotaging behaviors to help soothe u...

Something remains a true fact no matter where you go and that is: Change is inevitable. As Kamini is experiencing change in her home as an empty nester, she was originally resistant to these up and coming transitions. Life decisions happen to all of us, whether you’re moving out of your family home, getting married, having kids, changing careers, no one is immune to these transitions.   We also ex...

Dominique Blake is a professional track and field athlete and international motivational speaker. Everything she’s worked up to has not been by accident. Her hard-working parents instill an important message within her: Always give 100% to whatever excites you about life. Invest all you have so that you don’t walk away disappointed. Because of this, Dominique is blessed to say she does not have an...

So many people fall into codependent relationships without realizing it. As an exercise, think about a relationship with a close friend, parent or even romantic partner, and think about how you interact with that person. Are both parties benefiting from that interaction? Do both parties give and take equally? Or, do you find yourself being the one that is overgiving and overfunctioning just to ple...

Kamini has struggled with self-compassion and still works through some of her own thoughts and doubts about herself to this day. Your personal journey to wellness and healing will always be a work in progress, but Kamini has some healthy and gentle ways you can incorporate a daily practice around boosting your own inner thoughts and becoming more compassionate towards yourself in today’s episode....

Are you finding yourself more and more dreading having to hang out or deal with certain people in your life? They might have a more negative perspective on life and no matter what kind of positive or upbeat things you have to say to them, they always find a way to bring a rain cloud to the conversation. These people really can drain the life force out of you.    People with a negative mindset can...

Many of us are facing burnout right now. How do you know that you’re currently experiencing it or feeling it? Do you feel mentally exhausted, completely checked out, and that no matter how much rest that you get, it just doesn’t help? These all could be signs of burnout.    Burnout is a condition that extends well-beyond being overworked or overwhelmed. It is a state of emotional and physical exha...

When we set a goal, it is naturally going to be difficult to achieve because setting new goals requires us to go out of our normal comfort zone and do something differently. For example, if you have a desire to create better boundaries, that could mean your current relationships could drastically change for the better (or for worse). The unknown of this can create a healthy fear within you because...

Do you have an inner voice that is often telling you negative criticisms in an effort to try and protect you? Our inner critic is often our greatest obstacle to our personal success and happiness. Many high-achieving people are able to mask what their inner voice says, but that doesn’t mean they, too, don’t experience this criticism in their heads 24/7.    We all have a judge inside us that has na...

Do you suffer from high-functioning anxiety? Some of the clues that you might be experiencing this are: hardest worker in the room, always working through lunch, hyper vigilance on new emails or messages coming in, and you try to stay on top of everything at all times, even on the weekends.    If you’re proud to have the ‘overachiever’ title, then this is one of the biggest indicators that you hav...

We set goals all the time. It could be because it’s a new year, it could be because it’s a new month, or it could be because you’re just ready for a change and it’s Monday! But, why is it so hard to stick to our goals, especially after we’ve gotten clear on what they are?    When you set a goal, it usually means you have to change some type of behavior or do something differently to reach that mil...

Shame is considered a toxic emotion. It can have a big affect on your physical and emotional health and it can lead to substance abuse, anxiety, depression, and poor self-esteem. Shame and guilt can often get confused with one another, but they’re two different emotions. Shame is the thought that you are a bad person whereas guilt is the thought that you’ve made a grave mistake and you feel badly...

Is there a connection between perfectionism and eating disorders? The answer is yes! There are higher instances of perfectionism among people who are struggling with their relationship with food. Perfectionism is described as a personality characteristic that has a tendency to have excessively high expectations of one’s self.    Because of these incredibly high expectations, they’re deeply concern...

Setting boundaries is part of the process of self-care. Boundaries help us take care of our responsibilities, help us manage our relationships, and also protect our emotional and mental wellbeing. Everyone needs healthy boundaries, but highly sensitive people tend to have the hardest time setting these boundaries.    What is a highly sensitive person? They tend to have an increased responsiveness...

How often do you feel like you're unable to focus or even think clearly? Do you get distracted by the abundant information out there and have a hard time discerning what's valuable and what's not? Do you sometimes feel like you're going down rabbit holes just by paying attention to all the unimportant details?   The truth is, everyone experiences brain fog from time to time, but if you consistentl...

Stress and anxiety are not abnormal feelings. How can you identify whether what you're feeling is stress or if it’s anxiety? Can it be both? How do you know? The truth is, these are very common feelings and you’re not alone in feeling them when you’re undergoing a huge challenge or when you’re facing the unknown. This is your body’s way of putting up a fight!    What is stress? This is a normal hu...

As we enter into a new year, so many of us feel compelled to make new goals for ourselves. We set the intention to be different, make more money, lose weight, and put such intense pressure on ourselves to ‘be someone else’. How many times have we looked back and realized none of our intentions from last year were fulfilled? It’s time to take a pause.    It is important to take a moment to reflect...

Do you have this dread within you where you don’t know how to move forward or you’re just feeling plain stuck? It’s okay to have these stagnant feelings within us sometimes, but if it starts to creep up on you over and over, and you feel like no matter what, your bad patterns are coming back to haunt you, then it’s time to reevaluate.    If you’re feeling stuck right now, are you holding onto some...

As the holiday season is coming up soon and we begin to see more friends and family around this time, our boundaries can get completely pushed over in the process. It’s important to maintain our sense of self as we enjoy and spend time with those that we love. However, you must remind yourself that no is a complete sentence.    There is also nothing wrong with the word no. Some of us might think j...

Bad patterns that don’t serve us can keep cropping up over and over and sometimes we feel helpless in not knowing what to do to solve it. As the new year is coming up, many people are beginning their resolution process and trying to set new goals for the upcoming year. Kamini likes to approach it differently.    With a little reflection, Kamini asks herself what might no longer be serving her and...

Social media gives us the opportunity to turn off our brains and let us escape a little bit. There are a lot of benefits to social media, it can offer us connection with others, a source of enjoyment as we look at cute baby animals, and so much more. Not all social media is bad, but if we’re not careful, it can turn toxic if we’re following the wrong things.    Social media can be bad for you if y...

Kamini continues her discussion around shame. This time covering toxic shame and how it shows up for some of us. Shame is very internal and toxic shame takes it one step further by making you feel like you’re a wrong, worthless, or inferior person. This level of toxic shame usually happens as a result of a traumatic experience.    People who have been abused often feel like they deserved the exper...

Carl Jung once said that shame is a soul-eating emotion. It also seems quite paradoxical that it feels quite shameful to talk about shame. Shame holds us up from the goals and aspirations we have for ourselves.    What is shame and how is it different from guilt? Shame is an internal message you have that there is something wrong with you. Guilt is a more general feeling that you’ve done something...

Breathwork can be very helpful in releasing and healing certain emotions that you have trapped in your body. Kamini will be diving deeping into what an emotional detox is and why it might be a good practice to put in place when your life is getting too hectic or stressful.   There are a lot of stressors the human body is exposed to in our modern world. Not only is there stress in our home or work,...