I want to offer additional insight into managing yourself in toxic or confrontational situations. Any kind of perceived threat, conflict included, activates our danger-detecting networks and our body initiates a response. We either mobilize into action, freeze/withdrawal/disassociate, or move into an approval seeking, eager-to-please mode. All of these are automatic body responses so …
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MARCH BOOK RECOMMENDATION
One challenge I frequently see as a coach and that most of my clients are experiencing, is negative, uncontrolled mind chatter. We may be working on something but our brain is split between our task and the chatter. Furthermore, scientists found that our inner experiences, that is our thoughts, consistently dwarf our actual experiences. What …
JANUARY BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Happy New Year and welcome to 2021! This year I’ve decided to prioritize relationships with the people in my life: with my husband, my children, my family and my friends. So as my first January recommendation, I’m proposing a relationship building/sustaining book. The other two recommendations are beautiful stories of love, friendship, and perseverance. The …
MANY FACES OF FEAR
In his book Letting Go, David R. Hawkins talks about the many faces and the extent of fear. Constant worrying is chronic fear while paranoia is its extreme. Anxiety and phobias are somewhere in between. A milder form of fear is uneasiness, while shyness, tension, speechlessness, defensiveness, insecurity, and guiltiness are more severe. Because fear …
MY STORY
Obviously it’s impossible to talk about all parts of my life. But, there are a few wonderful moments that I can discuss and relive as I share them with you. I was born in the USSR in 1979 and lived in Ukraine for the first ten years of my life. I completed 1st through 3rd …