The Happier You: Empowering Your Journey to a Joyful and Fulfilling Life

In this episode I am talking about how focusing on the good multiplies blessings!  Have you really thought about what you are focusing on? When we don't think about it, we end up focusing on what we don't want to expand.  The way other people annoy us.  How our kids didn't put away their things.  How our carpooling partner is always late!  How it feels like you are the only one who...

Today's episode is about The Power of Choice: Your Authentic Path to Happiness. Have you ever felt like life's demands left you with little room to choose, or maybe you've found yourself going with the flow, unsure of what you truly want? Well, I'm here to tell you that embracing your power to choose is your authentic path to happiness. Join me as we dive deep into the transfor...

In today's episode we are talking with Diane Sorensen.  Diane is a Transformational Coach specializing in parenting and relationships. Diane helps us figure out why we struggle in some of our relationships. We learn about the Drama triangle and the 3 roles that we can find ourselves in.  I was fascinated by this talk with Diane because a friend mentioned the rescue triangle to me a while ago...

In today's episode we are talking about beating chronic pain and living your authentic life with Movement and Yoga Therapist Brittany Wassef.   Brittany shares her personal journey breaking free from chronic pain and how that lead to discovering her authentic life!   Join us in this episode as Brittany shares ways we can deal with chronic pain and encourages us all to pay attention and notice...

Today's episode is celebrating 100 episodes of The Happier You and honouring the journey that has brought us here. My friend Johanna Wickie takes the interviewer seat and helps me reflect on and celebrate what it took to get to this point. Grit, curiosity, determination, connection and inspiration.   It takes a little bit of all of those to hit 100!  We talk about all that and more in today&a...

In this episode I am talking to Amber Frauenholtz   about how to take back control of your health and your happiness this year.    Amber is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), Restorative Wellness Practitioner (RWP), and Health Coach who specializes in helping women feel their best through custom, holistic health plans that start with food.  She is passionate about helping others a...

In this week's podcast I am talking about setting yourself up to create some goals for 2024.  Maybe you are like me and are having a slow start to this year.  I don't know about you, but I was holding myself back from setting goals.   In today's episode I shared a tool that really helped me combat my reluctance to create new goals and remind me to stay focused on the positive things...

Today I'm talking about  harnessing the power of gratitude for joyful living .  In today's episode I share 6 reasons why I think gratitude is an important happiness tool and why I think you should try the Gratitude Challenge and see for yourself.   The Holidays are not the most wonderful time of the year for everyone.   When you grow your gratitude practice,  you'll find yourself fo...

Today's podcast is with Katie Allen, Personal Stylist and host of the Styled For Life Podcast. Katie tells us that when we feel good in our body, we feel good in our life. Katie's special skill is helping women feel good in their body by helping them figure out their own personal style. In today's episode she talks about self awareness. As I get more and more comfortable showing the...

Today's episode is about being okay with our best until we know better.  Its from a famous quote by Maya Angelou.  But the question is, when are we supposed to "know better?"  I think there are 3 times that spur us into figuring out when to know better.  Join me in today's podcast and I'll tell you what I think they are. One of them requires us to slow down enough to ask o...

This week's episode is a Mindfulness Coaching Session with Mindfulness Coach and Registerred Psychotherapist, Kara Braun.  As I am working on growing my mindfulness practice I ran into some trouble with equanimity...or so I thought.  Today's podcast is a coaching session where I learn more about the 3 Attentional Skills used in mindfulness, and particularly more about sensory clarity. Jo...

🌟 Dive into a transformative tale of resilience and empowerment as we sit down with the remarkable Johanna Wickie on today's episode. 🚀 We hear how she went from some of the toughest months of her life to figuring out what she needed to go from surviving to thriving.  Johanna shares the 'how' and 'why' behind her decisions, providing listeners with powerful insights to a...

This week I am talking to Janene Russick about how refining our expectations can increase joy.  Janene is an organizing coach and I asked her on to the podcast today to talk about this exercise she has her clients do each month called a "Calendar Conversation."  This monthly exercise has helped me support me!  I think that the more supportive we are to ourselves, the more happiness we di...

In today's episode we are talking about how validation helps us connect to others and support ourselves.  My guest Kathleen Thaler is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a friend.  I asked her on to the podcast because over the summer we had a conversation about validation and how important it is when raising teens, connecting with others and for OURSELVES and I wanted to share what I learne...

I'm super excited that we are entering season 4 of The Happier You Podcast.  You know its all bout figuring how to make each of our journey's unique, authentic and happier.  So join me for season 4 as we continue on this journey together to living our best lives, and inviting more happy in to our daily lives! Resources I referenced: Here is the link to get the podcast and My Happy Notes...

Today's episode is the final episode of Season 3.  I'll be back with exciting new episodes in September.  If you need your dose of happy this summer, don't forget the Summer Journal Challenge starting 1 July!  What are you doing to work on your "Happier" this summer? This week's episode is about the how & the why of creating a happiness support team. In this episo...

This week's episode is an interview with Lori Mitchell.  Lori is a friend of mine who I have been talking to about starting a journal practice with for the past few months.  In today's interview she shares how she got to the point that she feels she is ready to start her practice and some of the realizations she's had in getting to this point. Lori invites you to start your journali...

Today's podcast is about why self-awareness is important to our happiness journey. Many people tell me that they don't know where to start on their happiness journey, because they don't know what their happiness actually looks like. If you feel like this, you are not alone. What I have learned on my happiness journey, is that you don't actually have to know what your ultimate h...

Today's episode is an interview with Organizational Coach, Janene Russick.  Janene approaches organizing through helping us organize our thoughts and clarify who we are and what we really want.   She shares one of her tricks to start moving toward what we want in a "less scary" way.  She also shares the trick to her 8 minute sweep and how she discovered it! I loved learning from Jan...

In today's episode I share how grateful I was when a coach unknowingly gave me my own advice.  After being stunned and more than a little uncomfortable, I realized the blessing and the lesson there. Happiness is not a one and done.  It is not something that you achieve and then it just comes to you.  We have to keep working on it and adapting as things change around us. Today's episode i...

In today's episode my friend Kara Braun walks me through up leveling my mindfulness game.  It has been bugging me for a while that I don't really "get" mindfulness, and so when she offered to chat with me about it, I said YES PLEASE and hit record so I didn't miss a thing.  As I said on the podcast, I wanted to take my mindfulness knowledge up from a .5.  Kara shared three...

This week I am talking about why I chose to embrace possible failure instead of taking the known path.   We are so worried about being shamed, judged and made fun of that we often hold ourselves back from trying new things.  What if we took back our power and tried new things that weren't a guaranteed success...how many new things would we try and find out we love?  Or try and find out it isn...

In today's episode I am talking about how we can speed up the process of change by lighting that fire inside that inspires us to finally make the change we really want.  If you are like me, I know I want to make change but I have trouble finding the motivation to go through the steps to get there.  It's usually just easier to complain and go with the flow instead of instigating change. ...

Today's episode is  about how to STOP limiting your ability to experience happiness.  I was  inspired by a great book I have been re-listening to called The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks.  A friend recommended this book when I told her something that I was stuck on and worried about.  She immediately said, "READ THIS BOOK."  I love books and I hate getting stuck on things...so I did. ...

This week I'm talking about How Connecting To Your Future Self Helps Increase Focus and Happiness.  What do focus and happiness have in common?  Today I talk about this book I read about connecting to our future self.  As I was reading the book I realized that when we connect to our future self, it puts life in a different focus.  That focus can help us find more happiness today AND in the fu...